Experiences in using immersive virtual characters to educate medical communication skills

Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Johnsen, Kyle ^a   Dickerson, Robert ^a   Raij, Andrew ^a   Lok, Benjamin ^a   Jackson, Jonathan ^b   Shin, Min ^b   Hernandez, Jonathan ^a   Stevens, Amy ^a   Lind, D Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Immersive virtual environments; Medical education; Multimodal interaction; Virtual characters

Indexed keywords

IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIMODAL INTERACTION; VIRTUAL CHARACTERS;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STUDENTS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 28444495165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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