Motivational training tool to promote healthy lifestyle using virtual reality

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Fernandez
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Training Tool

scholarly journals Virtual reality as a new trend in mechanical and electrical engineering education

Open Physics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 936-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kamińska ◽  
Tomasz Sapiński ◽  
Nicola Aitken ◽  
Andreas Della Rocca ◽  
Maja Barańska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Training Tool ◽  
Training Strategy ◽  
Interactive Training ◽  
Electrical Engineering Education ◽  
Simple Interface ◽  
The Military

AbstractIn their daily practice, academics frequently face lack of access to modern equipment and devices, which are currently in use on the market. Moreover, many students have problems with understanding issues connected to mechanical and electrical engineering due to the complexity, necessity of abstract thinking and the fact that those concepts are not fully tangible. Many studies indicate that virtual reality can be successfully used as a training tool in various domains, such as development, health-care, the military or school education. In this paper, an interactive training strategy for mechanical and electrical engineering education shall be proposed. The prototype of the software consists of a simple interface, meaning it is easy for comprehension and use. Additionally, the main part of the prototype allows the user to virtually manipulate a 3D object that should be analyzed and studied. Initial studies indicate that the use of virtual reality can contribute to improving the quality and efficiency of higher education, as well as qualifications, competencies and the skills of graduates, and increase their competitiveness in the labour market.

Immersive Virtual Reality Exergames for People Living with Dementia: Working Through a User-Centered Co-Creation Process as a Multi-Stakeholder Team During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Muñoz ◽  
Samira Mehrabi ◽  
Yirou Li ◽  
Aysha Basharat ◽  
Jennifer Boger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Activity Promotion ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

BACKGROUND Advancements in supporting personalized healthcare and wellbeing using virtual reality (VR) has created opportunities to use immersive games to support a healthy lifestyle for persons living with dementia (PLWD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Collaboratively designing exercise-video games (exergames) as a multi-stakeholder team is fundamental to creating games that are attractive, effective, and accessible. OBJECTIVE This research explores the use of participatory design methods that involve PLWD in long-term care facilitates, exercise professionals, content developers, game designers, and researchers in the creation of VR exergames targeting physical activity promotion for PLWD/MCI. METHODS Conceptualization, collaborative design, and playtesting activities were carried out to design VR exergames to engage PLWD in exercises to promote upper-limb flexibility, strength and aerobic endurance RESULTS Our results demonstrate how different stakeholders contribute to the design of VR exergames that consider/complement complex needs, preferences, and motivators of an underrepresented group of end-users as well as game design elements that reflect feedback for therapists and researchers. CONCLUSIONS This study provides evidence that collaborative multi-stakeholder design results in more tailored and context-aware VR games for PLWD. The insights and lessons learned in from this research can be used by others to co-design games, including remote engagement techniques that were used during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Virtual reality as a training tool for plastic surgeons

2004 ◽  
Vol 1268 ◽  
pp. 1343
Author(s):  
T.P. Wolter ◽  
L. Jerabkova ◽  
B. Dickmeis ◽  
T. Kuhlen ◽  
N. Pallua
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Training Tool

Real Handball Goalkeeper vs. Virtual Handball Thrower

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Bideau ◽  
Richard Kulpa ◽  
Stéphane Ménardais ◽  
Laetitia Fradet ◽  
Franck Multon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Motion Capture ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Virtual Experiment ◽  
Pilot Experiment ◽  
The Real ◽  
Training Tool ◽  
Future Work

Virtual reality offers new tools for human motion understanding. Several applications have been widely used in teleoperation, military training, driving and flying simulators, and so forth. We propose to test if virtual reality is a valid training tool for the game of handball. We focused on the duel between a handball goalkeeper and a thrower. To this end, we defined a pilot experiment divided into two steps: an experiment with real subjects and another one with virtual throwers. The throwers' motions were captured in order to animate their avatar in a reality center. In this paper, we focused on the evaluation of presence when a goalkeeper is confronting these avatars. To this end, we compared the goalkeeper's gestures in the real and in the virtual experiment to determine if virtual reality engendered the same movements for the same throw. Our results show that gestures did not differ between the real and virtual environment. As a consequence, we can say that the virtual environment offered enough realism to initiate natural gestures. Moreover, as in real games, we observed the goalkeeper's anticipation to allow us to use virtual reality in future work as a way to understand the goalkeeper and thrower interactions. The main originality of this work was to measure presence in a sporting application with new evaluation methods based on motion capture.

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