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Designing an Educational Virtual Reality Application to Learn Ergonomics in a Work Place

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Elisabeth Mayer,

Marie Astrid Garrido,

Dieter August KranzlmüllerAuthors Info & Claims

IMX '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences

Pages 247 - 252

https://doi.org/10.1145/3452918.3465504

Published: 23 June 2021 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we describe the process of designing an educational Virtual Reality (VR) application for university medical students to learn how to set up a work place ergonomically correct. We focus on commercially available hardware and a commercial game engine. This was a collaboration between medical experts and VR experts to achieve the ideal results. This use case builds on research of 3D user interfaces (UI) to create an UI system that novice VR-users can use intuitively. Next steps include a user study to compare immersive and non-immersive versions, as well as learn effects in VR.

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Mohd Ariffin MArshad NMohd Aszemi NHashim A(2023)Teaching Ergonomics Using Virtual Reality (VR) to Higher Education LearnersProceedings of the International Conference on Advancing and Redesigning Education 202310.1007/978-981-97-4507-4_87(787-793)Online publication date: 21-Nov-2023
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Mohd Ariffin MArshad NMohd Aszemi NHashim A(2023)Teaching Ergonomics Using Virtual Reality (VR) to Higher Education LearnersProceedings of the International Conference on Advancing and Redesigning Education 202310.1007/978-981-97-4507-4_87(787-793)Online publication date: 21-Nov-2023
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