Preliminary assessment of faculty and student perception of a haptic virtual reality simulator for training dental manual dexterity

Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 496-504

  Ben Gal, Gilad ^a   Weiss, Ervin I ^a   Gafni, Naomi ^b   Ziv, Amitai ^c,d  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b National Institute for Testing and Evaluation Jerusalem   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Computer assisted instruction; Dental education; Educational technology; Manual dexterity training; Psychomotor skills; Virtual reality simulator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL SURGERY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOUCH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DENTAL CAVITY PREPARATION; DENTISTRY, OPERATIVE; EDUCATION, DENTAL; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79953686197     PISSN: 00220337     EISSN: 19307837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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