User experience design in virtual reality medical training application
Mian Usman Sattar, Sellappan Palaniappan, Asiah Lokman, Nauman Shah, Zurabia Riaz, Usman Khalid · Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association · 2019
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of design parameters on the user experience of virtual reality medical training. METHODS: The quantitative study was conducted at Punjab (Pakistan) from July 2018 to October 2018, and comprised final year students from eight medical colleges in Pakistan. Each respondent was given to experience laparoscopy operation in text, video and virtual reality-based learning methodologies. User experience and usefulness was assessed against a pre-validated scale and compared with the three learning methodologies. RESULTS: Of the 87, students, 50(57.5%) were male and 37(42.5%) were female. The overall mean age was 22.5±4 years. Result of virtual reality was better than others (p<0.05). Data was analysed using SPSS 20. CONCLUSIONS: Virtual reality-based learning provided better user experience than traditional learning methodologies.