Emerging advancements for virtual and augmented reality in healthcare / Luis Coelho, Ricardo Queirós, and Sara Reis, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coelho, Luis Pinto, author.

Contributor:

Reis, Sara, editor.

Queiros, Ricardo, editor.

Coelho, Luis, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual reality.

Augmented reality.

Therapeutics.

Physical Description:

27 PDFs (308 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hershey, PA : IGI Global, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The goal of this book is to show how to put Virtual Reality in action by linking academic and informatics researchers with professionals who use and need VR in their day-a-day work, with a special focus on healthcare professionals and related areas for the purpose of exchanging the knowledge, information and technology from the international communities in the area of VR, AR and XR."

Contents:

Section 1. Preventive healthcare and awareness. Chapter 1. Virtual reality in healthcare: a survey ; Chapter 2. Virtual and augmented reality awareness tools for universal design: towards active preventive healthcare

Section 2. Education and training. Chapter 3. Educational technology based on virtual and augmented reality for students with learning disabilities: specific projects and applications ; Chapter 4. A pedagogical paradigm shift: prospective epistemologies of extended reality in health professions education ; Chapter 5. Virtual simulation: a flipped classroom teaching tool for healthcare education ; Chapter 6. Building an extended reality pedagogical continuum through 180 first-person point-of-view video: from VR to computer and mobile displays to AR

Section 3. Physical intervention. Chapter 7. Application of virtual/augmented reality in surgical procedures: bibliographical review in recent developments ; Chapter 8. Improvements of virtual and augmented reality for advanced treatments in urology ; Chapter 9. Emerging advancement for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in dentistry

Section 4. Mental intervention. Chapter 10. Virtual reality exposure therapy and physiological data analysis for treatment of stress disorders ; Chapter 11. Evidence-based virtual reality use for mental health conditions ; Chapter 12. Evidence-based immersive technology use in cognitive assessments and cognition-based interventions

Section 5. Trends. Chapter 13. Application of virtual reality in cognitive rehabilitation: a road ahead ; Chapter 14. The future of virtual reality and deep learning in visual field testing.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-7998-8373-6

1-7998-8372-8

OCLC:

1289419212