Virtual Reality in Psychological, Medical and Pedagogical Applications
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This book has an aim to present latest applications, trends and developments of virtual reality technologies in three humanities disciplines: in medicine, psychology and pedagogy. Studies show that people in both educational as well as in the medical therapeutic range expect more and more that modern media are included in the corresponding demand and supply structures. For the Internet and various mobile media, associated research and application projects now have fixed key words such as "E-learning" and "E-Mental Health" or "M-Learning", "M-Mental Health". This book aims to contribute to the current state of the corresponding efforts in the area of ??further promising technology - the Virtual Reality - designed to give an overview and secondly to provide a stimulus on specific projects, associated with the hope of giving to scientists and practitioners from the humanities an impulse for their own (further-) development, evaluation and implementation of various VR scenarios in the education and health sectors.
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“For instance Andy Clark [28] underlines that: “The infant, like the VR-exploring adult, must learn how to use initially unresponsive hands, arms, and legs to obtain its goals… With time and practice enough bodily fluency is achieved to make the wider world itself directly available as a kind of unmediated arena for em…”
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BackgroundHand dominance and performance in a laparoscopic skills curriculum
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- Authors
- Eichenberg, C.
- Corresponding author
- Christiane Eichenberg
- Venue
- InTech eBooks
- Publisher
- InTech
- Published
- 2012-09-12
- DOI
- 10.5772/2607
- OpenAlex
- W1587717911
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 139
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 29 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 3.76
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- InTech eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- European Commission (247685)
- Canada Research Chairs
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Augmented Reality Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Education and Learning Interventions
- Keywords
- virtual reality, virtual reality in medicine, online learning, e-mental health, mobile learning, educational technology
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