Immersive Virtual Environment Testing Area

沉浸式虚拟环境测试区（IVETA）及其工作人员提供广泛的服务，包括科学咨询，数据收集，研究管理以及安排和资助必要的科学材料的采购。在本报告年度，IVETA团队为五个社会和行为研究部门发起的研究项目提供服务。 在本报告年度，IVETA工作人员参与了实验室内方案的开发、准备和管理，以评价参与者使用家族健康史数据收集网络应用程序（PI：Koehly）的情况。 IVETA团队计划，监督编程，并为一项研究制定了协议，该研究评估了患者情绪对临床接触中肥胖相关基因组信息反应的影响（PI：Persky）。该研究小组一直在为该项目的基于IVETA的虚拟现实实验臂收集数据。该团队还参与了为该项目即将到来的基于互联网的分支创建材料。 此外，IVETA团队为一个项目的研究设计、设备、材料和管理做出了贡献，该项目旨在评估患者与医生之间在涉及前列腺癌治疗决策的不确定性方面的沟通（PI：Han）。对于本方案，IVETA工作人员就研究设计和规划进行了咨询，准备了适合该项目的虚拟现实环境，并准备了交付给缅因州医学中心的虚拟现实方案和系统，该中心目前正在进行场外数据收集。 IVETA团队维护并管理了一项基于虚拟现实的参与者注意力测试，并结合了一项关于ADHD儿童大脑结构和功能的大型研究（PI：Shaw）。在本报告年度内，该团队完成了一项可行性试验，评估了纳入该虚拟现实评估的可能性，并开始定期为该项目的纵向数据收集工作做出贡献。 最后，IVETA工作人员还贡献了一个项目，评估患者种族/民族和社会经济地位对医生个性化用药相关决策的影响（PI：博纳姆）。在本报告年度，该团队就研究设计和材料创建提供咨询，监督编程，制定研究方案，并建立虚拟现实协议和系统，用于即将进行的场外数据收集。 除了直接服务于社会和行为研究分支的研究需求外，IVETA团队还进行研究和评估，以扩大自身的能力。在本报告年度，IVETA团队进行了一项试点研究，旨在评估包括参与者对沉浸式虚拟临床模拟反应的生理评估的可行性和附加值。本研究的数据收集已完成，分析正在进行中。

A wide range of services are provided by the Immersive Virtual Environment Testing Area (IVETA) and its staff including, for example, scientific consultation, data collection, study administration, and arranging and funding procurement of necessary scientific materials. During this reporting year, five Social and Behavioral Research Branch-initiated research projects have been served by the IVETA team. The IVETA staff contributed to development, preparation, and administration of an in-lab protocol to evaluate participant use of a family health history data collection web application (PI: Koehly) during this reporting year. The IVETA team planned, oversaw programming, and developed protocols for a study assessing the influence of patient emotion on reactions to obesity-related genomic information in clinical encounters (PI: Persky). The study team has been engaged in data collection for the IVETA-based virtual reality experimental arm of this project. The team has also been involved in creating materials for the upcoming internet-based arm of this project. In addition, the IVETA team contributed to study design, equipment, materials, and administration of a project aiming to assess patient-physician communication around uncertainty in encounters involving prostate cancer treatment decisions (PI: Han). For this protocol, IVETA staff consulted on study design and planning, prepared a virtual reality environment to suit the project, and prepared a virtual reality protocol and system that was delivered to Maine Medical Center where offsite data collection is currently in progress. The IVETA team has maintained and administered a virtual reality-based test of participant attention in conjunction with a larger study on brain structure and function of children with ADHD (PI: Shaw). During this reporting year, the team has completed a feasibility trial assessing inclusion of this virtual reality assessment, and has begun regular contribution to the longitudinal data collection effort for this project. Finally, the IVETA staff has contributed a project assessing the influence of patient race/ethnicity and socio-economic status on physician decision-making related to personalized medicine (PI: Bonham). During this reporting year, the team has consulted on study design and material creation, overseen programming, developed study protocols, and set up a virtual reality protocol and system to be used for upcoming offsite data collection. In addition to directly serving the research needs of the Social and Behavioral Research Branch, the IVETA team also conducts research and assessments to expand its own capabilities. During this reporting year the IVETA team has conducted a pilot study that aims to assess the feasibility and added value of including physiological assessments of participant reaction to immersive virtual clinical simulations. Data collection on this study is completed and analyses are ongoing.