Immersive Virtual Reality Environment for Dental Training

用于牙科培训的沉浸式虚拟现实环境

• 批准号: 830109
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: HEALTHCARE LEARNING LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Innovation Loans
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830109
• 关键词: Immersive; Virtual; Reality; Environment; Dental

Dental surgery is a complicated and dextrous skill which requires significant training and practice. Lack of effective training combined with time pressures and unrealistic targets on dentists leads to surgical complications and unsatisfied patients. Virtual reality (VR) has shown great potential in the field of dentistry as it provides a low cost approach for dental surgery simulation/training. A few UK universities currently use VR for dental training, however CURRENT technologies are limited; they cannot be used online, so students must still travel to the venue for training, and they follow traditional training procedures failing to exploit the potential of gamification to motivate students. To address the need for improved VR training solutions, HL will deliver a remote learning solution for Restorative & Aesthetic Dentistry (RAD) students (appropriate for any MSc or BSc covering aspects of RAD). The tech will implement the VR component into existing course material thus improving a state of the art and award winning learning programme. The VR content will be embedded into course material and designed specifically for remote learning, to be delivered to students using low cost consumer electronics (VR headsets costing £15-£30 are compatible with Smartphones ~£100). This will significantly extend the ‘population’ of dentists globally who are able to benefit from the education; help standardise and raise the quality of training; and help expose students to a wider range of treatment issues, more efficiently.

牙科手术是一项复杂而灵巧的技能，需要大量的培训和实践。缺乏有效的培训，再加上牙医的时间压力和不切实际的目标，会导致手术并发症和患者不满意。虚拟现实（VR）在牙科领域显示出巨大的潜力，因为它为牙科手术模拟/培训提供了一种低成本的方法。目前，一些英国大学使用 VR 进行牙科培训，但当前技术有限；不能在线使用，学生仍需前往场地进行培训，且遵循传统的培训程序，未能发挥游戏化的潜力来激励学生。为了满足改进 VR 培训解决方案的需求，HL 将为修复与美容牙科 (RAD) 学生提供远程学习解决方案（适用于涵盖 RAD 各个方面的任何理学硕士或理学学士）。该技术将把 VR 组件应用到现有的课程材料中，从而改进最先进且屡获殊荣的学习计划。 VR 内容将嵌入到课程材料中，专为远程学习而设计，使用低成本消费电子产品向学生提供（VR 耳机售价 15 至 30 英镑，与智能手机约 100 英镑兼容）。这将大大增加全球能够从教育中受益的牙医“人数”；帮助标准化和提高培训质量；并帮助学生更有效地接触更广泛的治疗问题。