Application areas of multi-user virtual environments in the healthcare context

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 204, Issue , 2014, Pages 38-46

  Ghanbarzadeh, Reza ^a   Ghapanchi, Amir Hossein ^a   Blumenstein, Michael ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

3DVW; health; healthcare; multi user virtual environment; MUVE; Three dimensional virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

3DVW; CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY; HEALTHCARE SECTORS; MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT; MUVE; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL WORLD;

HEALTH CARE;

EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; SCIENTIST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COOPERATION; ECOSYSTEM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTERNET; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ECOSYSTEM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84927170632     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-427-5-38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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