ALBATROS
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- Full name
- Applications of a biosignal acquisition and virtual reality system for psychological and medical sciences
- Acronym
- ALBATROS
- Website
- http://www.diana.uma.es/investigaIHM/albatros.htm
- Keywords
- human-machine interface, virtual reality, medical training, biosignal
- Budget
- € 509350
- Start date
- January 2000
- End date
- December 2001
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Partners
Funding Bodies
- EC ERDF Funds
Contact
- Antonio Díaz Estrella (ade@dte.uma.es)
Dpto. Tecnología Electrónica, Campus de Teatinos, 29071-Málaga (Spain)
Objectives
- Generate a development system of new generation human machine interface, comprising advanced technologies resources: virtual reality, voice interface, acquisition of physiological signals, etc.
- Use the development system for research purposes (study of human factors, psychological effects and presence in virtual reality) and for develop a medical training simulator for learners in intensive care mobile units in collaboration with health companies in the region
Main Results
- UVIMO: a prototype of training simulator.
- Several studies about training and presence
End Users
- Empresa Pública de Emergencias Sanitarias(public body devoted to medical emergencies)
Evaluation Methodologies
- Questionnaires and experiments to evaluate presence.
- Interviews and expert review to validate the training simulator
Publications
- R. Viciana-Abad and A. Reyes-Lecuona, "Patient modelling using expert systems for medical training simulations based on virtual reality" , VRIC Laval 2005, April, 2005
- R. Viciana-Abad, A. Reyes-Lecuona, C. García-Berdonés, A. Díaz-Estrella, "A preliminary study of presence in virtual reality training simulation for medical emergencies, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR-12), pp. 394-396, Newport Beach, California, (EEUU), January, 2004.
- R. Viciana-Abad, A. Reyes-Lecuona, C. García-Berdonés, A. Díaz-Estrella, S. Castillo-Carrión, "The importance of significant information in presence and stress within a virtual reality experience", 9th Annual Conference Cybertherapy 2004, San Diego, California, (EEUU), January, 2004.
- B. Guerrero-Cuevas, "efectos psicológicos de la realidad virtual (psychological effects of virtual reality)" , PhD Thesis. University of Malaga, Spain, 2003
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