 The Dubai police force currently trains its accident investigators using a mixture of theoretical training and on-the-job practical training. In this paper, we investigate the suitability of a virtual environment (VE) for training and performance testing traffic accident investigators. To justify the investment for virtual training we compare trainees’ performances against the less expensive ...

This paper provides a brief overview of an implicit training method used for teaching autonomous agents to represent humans in 3D Virtual Worlds without any explicit training efforts being required.

The virtual physiological human (VPH) initiative encompasses a wide range of activities, including structural and functional imaging, data mining, knowledge discovery tool and database development, biomedical modelling, simulation and visualization. The VPH community is developing from a multitude of relatively focused, but disparate, research endeavours into an integrated effort to bring toget...

Background: The informal caregivers of the patients with COVID-19, who are in direct contact with patients and Coronavirus, experience many psychological issues and are prone to illness anxiety disorder. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of virtual training of Benson relaxation technique on illness anxiety disorder in the informal caregivers of the patie...

This paper proposes a novel algorithm Virtual Instances Resampling Technique Using Active Learning (VIRTUAL) for class imbalance problem in Support Vector Machine (SVM) learning. In supervised learning, prediction performance of the classification algorithms deteriorate when the training set is imbalanced. Class imbalance problem occurs when at least one of the classes are represented by substa...

With the rise in population migration there has been an increased need for professional interpreters who can bridge language barriers and operate in a variety of fields such as business, legal, social and medical. Interpreters require specialized training to cope with the idiosyncrasies of each field and their potential clients need to be aware of professional parlance. We present ‘Project IVY’...

Virtual reality promises to change the world of surgical training and practice. Just as flight simulators revolutionized pilot training, human simulators will become the medical classrooms of the future. Surgeons will be able to train on simulated human models, perfecting their techniques without even entering an operating room. Recent advances in computer technology have placed these exciting ...

This paper describes an experiment conducted to investigate the benefits of force feedback for virtual reality training of a real task. Three groups of subjects received different levels of training before completing a manual task, the construction of a LEGO biplane model. One group trained on a Virtual Building Block (VBB) simulation, which emulated the real task in a virtual environment, inc...