A virtual reality simulator for teaching and evaluating dental procedures

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 396-405

  Rhienmora, P ^a   Haddawy, P ^a   Khanal, P ^b   Suebnukarn, S ^b   Dailey, M N ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Dental performance assessment; Dental skills training; Haptic interface; Hidden Markov model; Intelligent training system; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; DENTISTRY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; THAILAND;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTISTRY; EDUCATION, DENTAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING; THAILAND; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77955542777     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME9310     Document Type: Article

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