To Speak or to Text: Effects of Display Type and I/O Style on Mobile Virtual Humans Nurse Training

Nursing programs are designed to teach students the knowledge, skill and attitudes needed to provide nursing care to patients of various ages, genders, cultures and religious backgrounds. Traditionally, students acquire these skills through patient interaction. There have been shown benefits to training nurses, and other medical students, via embodied virtual humans. We have designed a system to enable mobile interactive training for nursing students using an embodied conversational virtual human. Furthermore, we conducted a study to compare whether display type and interaction type have an effect on users’ interactions. In this paper, we present the details of our system and results from our user study. Our results could have impact for designing and using VH training systems.

护理课程旨在教授学生为不同年龄、性别、文化和宗教背景的患者提供护理所需的知识、技能和态度。传统上，学生通过与患者互动来获得这些技能。通过具身虚拟人对护士及其他医科学生进行培训已显示出益处。我们设计了一个系统，利用具身对话虚拟人对护理专业学生进行移动交互式培训。此外，我们还进行了一项研究，以比较显示类型和交互类型是否对用户的交互产生影响。在本文中，我们详细介绍了我们的系统以及用户研究的结果。我们的研究结果可能会对虚拟人（VH）培训系统的设计和使用产生影响。