“COVID-19 — VR Strikes Back: Innovative Medical VR Training” by Zikas, Kamarianakis, Kartsonaki, Lydatakis, Kateros, et al. …
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Entry Number: 11
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- COVID-19 — VR Strikes Back: Innovative Medical VR Training
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- Immersive Medicine
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In this work, we present “Covid-19 VR Strikes Back” (CVRSB), a novel Virtual Reality (VR) medical training application focusing on a faster and more efficient teaching experience for medical personnel regarding the nasopharyngeal swab and the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) donning and doffing. Our platform incorporates a diversity of innovations: a) techniques to avoid the uncanny valley observed in human representation and interactivity in VR simulations, b) exploitation of Geometric Algebra interpolation engine capabilities and c) supervised machine learning analytics module for real-time recommendations. Our application is publicly available at no cost for most Head Mount Displays (HMDs) and Desktop VR. The impact and effectiveness of our application is proved by recent clinical trials.
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- Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta. 2021. MIND-VR: Virtual Reality for COVID-19 Operators’ Psychological Support. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04611399. [Online; accessed 18-February-2021].
- Ki Ho Hong, Sang Won Lee, Taek Soo Kim, Hee Jae Huh, Jaehyeon Lee, So Yeon Kim, Jae-Sun Park, Gab Jung Kim, Heungsup Sung, Kyoung Ho Roh, 2020. Guidelines for laboratory diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Korea. Annals of laboratory medicine 40, 5 (2020), 351–360.
- Manos Kamarianakis and George Papagiannakis. 2020. Deform, Cut and Tear a Skinned Model Using Conformal Geometric Algebra. In Computer Graphics International Conference. Springer, 434–446.
- George Papagiannakis, Paul Zikas, Nick Lydatakis, Steve Kateros, Mike Kentros, Efstratios Geronikolakis, Manos Kamarianakis, Ioanna Kartsonaki, and Giannis Evangelou. 2020. MAGES 3.0: Tying the knot of medical VR. In ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Immersive Pavilion. 1–2.
- Paul Zikas, George Papagiannakis, Nick Lydatakis, Steve Kateros, Stavroula Ntoa, Ilia Adami, and Constantine Stephanidis. 2019. Scenior: An Immersive Visual Scripting system based on VR Software Design Patterns for Experiential Training. arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05719(2019).
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