Abstract
Serious games can provide an attractive way for training procedures. Some applications for simulating training in the health area are available, but most of them do not include ludic aspects. This article presents a serious games to simulate breast biopsy exam using Virtual Reality. Immersive aspects were included to increase users engagement. An evaluation with users indicated that ludic aspects increase motivation for playing, haptic device was suitable for interaction, colors and illumination techniques were appropriate to provide visual realism and this type of application can present a successful use among students.
Highlights
Medical training is a subject of several Virtual Reality (VR) researches which aims to improve the user’s skills
This paper presented the development and evaluation of a VR application as a serious game to enable the training of breast biopsy exam in order to improve clinical skills
The main contribution of this paper was the development of a VR Breast Biopsy game
Summary
Medical training is a subject of several Virtual Reality (VR) researches which aims to improve the user’s skills. Serious games cited in literature related to healthcare use VR techniques and devices to assist in training and education of students as well as rehabilitation of patients. They are useful tools to increase the range of experience with medical situations of students, residents and physicians. The real-time interaction and threedimensionality of the VR allied with entertaining aspects of serious games are a useful combination for building realistic medical training applications to improve clinical skills [2]. Puncture exams are requested by physicians when there are suspect cases related to anomalies in a patient They are known as biopsy exams and can be performed in several human organs. The latter allows only the analysis of cells and alterations that they cause in pathological cases (cytopathology)
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