Applying Virtual Reality in Older Adult Healthcare Education - A Case Study
2025 (English)In: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare / [ed] Kondylakis H., Triantafyllidis A., Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2025, Vol. 611, p. 355-369Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Extended reality (XR) technologies are increasingly being used in different application areas. One such area is for healthcare, which has seen significant developments over the last few years. However, its use for healthcare education is still in its infancy. This paper presents a case study, which explores the use of virtual reality (VR) technology in the healthcare domain. In particular, an application targeting education of various conditions healthcare providers might meet in older adult care is evaluated using different subjective evaluations methodologies, with nursing students and professional healthcare staff. The overall results show promising directions and use of new technology applications in this domain, but also highlights some of the potential problems with its adoption.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2025. Vol. 611, p. 355-369
Series
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, ISSN 1867-8211, E-ISSN 1867-822X ; 611
Keywords [en]
Education, Healthcare Professionals, Nursing Students, Older Adult Care, Virtual Reality, Education computing, Engineering education, Nursing, Social sciences computing, Teaching, Application area, Case-studies, Condition, Health care education, Health care professionals, Healthcare domains, Old adult care, Older adults, Virtual reality technology, Students
National Category
Educational Work Nursing Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-27815DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-85572-6_23ISI: 001484281100023Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105003907446ISBN: 9783031855719 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-27815DiVA, id: diva2:1957296
Conference
18th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2024, Heraklion, Sept 17-18, 2024
Part of project
HINTS - Human-Centered Intelligent Realities
Funder
Knowledge Foundation, 202200682025-05-092025-05-092025-09-30Bibliographically approved