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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"virtual simulation"”.
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Nurse educators’ experience with adjusting to virtual simulation: A narrative analysis study
… the COVID-19 pandemic nursing faculty turned to virtual simulation as an alternative to clinical experiences. Literature exists on the use of virtual simulation in nursing, as well as faculty experiences transitioning to the online environment; however, few studies have been done considering the …
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Development and initial testing of a virtual simulation training module to teach microtomy
… is to use the think-aloud protocol to develop a virtual simulation training module for students to learn microtomy. Methods: A think-aloud protocol was conducted with an MLT expert to generate the steps of the microtomy procedure. Eight experts rated the criticalness and provided feedback on the …
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A Common Component-based Software Architecture For Military And Commercial Pc-based Virtual Simulation
<p>Commercially available military-themed virtual simulations have been developed and sold for entertainment since the beginning of the personal computing era. There exists an intense interest by various branches of the military to leverage the technological advances of the personal computing and …
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Exploring the Effects of an Incivility-Based Virtual Simulation on Undergraduate Nursing Students' Self-Efficacy
… its most vulnerable victims. Incivility-based virtual simulation is used with the belief that nursing students and newly graduated nurses will have increased self-efficacy and confidence in their abilities when identifying and addressing incivility. This mixed-methods study examined the effects …
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A comparison of seated and room-scale virtual reality on medical-based serious games and virtual simulation
Simulation-based training has been widely adopted by healthcare education as a vital tool in the practice of skills within a safe environment. However, significant cost and logistical challenges exist within traditional simulation practices. Serious games, or games with a primary purpose other than …
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The Effect of Virtual Simulation on the Development of Basic Counseling Skills, Self-Reported Immersion Experience, Self-Reported Counselor Self-Efficacy, and Self-Reported Anxiety of Counselors-in-Training
… of this study was to examine the effect of virtual simulation training on the development of basic counseling skills, the immersion experience, levels of anxiety, and levels of counselor self-efficacy (CSE) among CITs using student-to-avatar and student-to-student role play. A …
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Application Activities Designed to Prepare Preservice Special Education Teachers for Response and Prevention of Bullying Behaviors
… Role Play/Peer Discussion Activities, and Virtual Simulation/Instructor Feedback activities for preparing preservice special education teachers to respond appropriately when confronted with bullying behaviors. The results of individual participant analysis did not reveal significance of …
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Comparison Between Computer Assisted Instruction as a Laboratory Strategy, and Traditional Lab Instruction as Applied to Teaching Physical Science to Suburban High School Students
… <p>Educators are expanding classrooms with virtual environments and simulations, and students are seeking choices outside the brick and mortar school building, even opting to take the entire class online. This trend aligns with this research due to the laboratory experiences being moved to …
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Implementation of the virtual teamworking concept into the simulation project life-cycle.
Simulation is a powerful tool that allows producing the best solution for a variety of design and operational issues in manufacturing systems. It provides the ability to assess the impact of various solutions without interfering with the real system. Applying simulation in the decision making …
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Improving The Accuracy of Radiation Pneumonitis Dose Response Models
… In the third specific aim a proof of principle virtual simulation was performed where a model-determined limit was used to scale the prescription dose.</p> <p>The data showed that for our patient cohort, the fit of the model to the data was not improved by incorporating spatial information. …
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Virtual drilling haptics perception from auditory cues employing low-end haptic devices
Simulation-based training is being widely adopted in medical education because it allows exposing trainees to safe and controlled simulated scenarios otherwise impossible to reproduce in real life. Current advances in immersive technologies including those related to Virtual Reality (VR), and …
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Development of a novel virtual environment for assessing cognitive function. Design, Development and Evaluation of a Novel Virtual Environment to Investigate Cognitive Function and Discriminate between Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Elderly.
… of identifying MCI is of great importance. Virtual reality plays an important role in healthcare and offers opportunities for detection of MCI. There are various studies that have focused on detection of early AD using virtual environments, although results remain limited. One significant …
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Development of a novel virtual environment for assessing cognitive function. Design, Development and Evaluation of a Novel Virtual Environment to Investigate Cognitive Function and Discriminate between Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Elderly.
… of identifying MCI is of great importance. Virtual reality plays an important role in healthcare and offers opportunities for detection of MCI. There are various studies that have focused on detection of early AD using virtual environments, although results remain limited. One significant …
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Substituting Live Training With Virtual Training By Means Of A Commercial Off The Shelf, First Person Shooter Computer Game And the Effect on Performance
… has been done on the effect of replacing live simulation with virtual simulation. With this in mind, six groups of individuals were run through the experiment for over five months at various levels of virtual/live training and scored across 16 leadership skills. These results were then …
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SPIRE : systems for plan recovery in intelligent environments
… intelligent spaces called a desktop multi-player virtual simulation game. In Charles River City, students work in teams to SPRIE. SPRIE is an automated system that uses a two-stage process for recovery from plan execution failures. In the first stage, the failure is diagnosed using Bayesian …
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A case study to develop an adaptive ski jacket for alpine recreational sit skier -- user-centered design method
… The research integrates 3D body scanning and virtual simulation to tailor designs that address the unique needs of sit skiers. Employing case study and qualitative interview research methods, data was collected from a series of semi-structured interviews and observations of a case study …
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Learning to fly : computational controller design for hybrid UAVs with reinforcement learning
… tuning process, closing the gap between virtual simulation and real fabrication. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed controller both in simulation and in our custom-built hybrid UAVs. The experiments show that the controller is robust to exploit the complex dynamics when both …
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Charles River City : an educational augmented reality simulation pocket PC game
… an educational, location-based augmented reality simulation game that uses Pocket PC devices and GPS technology. As mobile devices and processing power become more common and affordable, high school teachers can take advantage of these technological advances to explore new channels for teaching …
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The Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations Impacting Conceptual Knowledge and Proficiency of Laboratory Techniques in an Undergraduate Microbiology Laboratory Course
… parental guidance, exposure and unpreparedness. Virtual labs were designed to enhance users’ knowledge on basic scientific techniques and promote career awareness in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics related to food safety. An insufficient amount of research has studied the …
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Virtual Reality Simulation of Ships and Ship-Mounted Cranes
We present a virtual simulation of ships and ship-mounted cranes. The simulation is carried out in a Cave Automated Virtual Environment (CAVE). This simulation serves as a platform to study the dynamics of ships and ship-mounted cranes under dynamic sea environments and as a training platform for …
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