Designing Immersive Mobile Mixed Reality for Paramedic Education
Thomas Cochrane, Stuart Cook, Stephen Aiello, Claudio Aguayo, Cristóbal Dañobeitia, Gonzalo Boncompte · 2018
This paper outlines and critiques the first two stages of a mobile mixed reality design-based research study exploring the design and evaluation of mobile virtual reality for paramedic education. We triangulate subjective student immersive environment feedback with objective biometric data to gain clearer insights into the impact of these immersive environments on student learning. In the study high-risk critical care scenarios are simulated using a low-cost mobile virtual reality environment, utilizing student-owned devices. The scenarios are designed to stimulate student identification of environmental risk factors before treating a critical care patient, ensuring the safety of both the patient and the first-responders, leading to increased chances of patient survival and recovery. We discuss the design principles behind the proj ect and evaluate the first prototype scenario to guide the redesign of the data capture methodology for the next stage of the research.