Simulation-based training is used to improve learners’ skills and enhance their knowledge. Recently, virtual reality technology has been exploited in simulation mainly for purposes, enable learning while performing simulated activities that are dangerous or even impossible be the real world. In this context, we present a simulation-based firefighter an earthquake scenario developed colla...

The use of virtual reality for medical training applications is increasing rapidly. Until now, the systems have been mostly to aid surgeons, but there exists another group of medical staff that would benefit from virtual reality also the anaesthetists. There is a great need to increase the experience of trainee anaesthetists without endangering patients. An affordable virtual reality training a...

The purpose of this study was to use a simulated virtual reality environment for training of surgical skills and then to identify if the learning that occurred was transferable to a real world surgical task. The virtual surgical tasks consisted of bimanual carrying, needle passing and mesh alignment. In this ongoing study, the experimental group (n = 5) was trained by performing four blocks of ...

The use of virtual simulation-based training continues to expand, as organizations explore alternative methods to reduce the cost of training. While virtual simulation has been empirically validated to be effective in the transfer of skills to the live environment, what is still unknown is what effect, if any, that an individual’s sense of presence in the simulation has on their performance. In...

In this paper, we describe the analysis of the effect of vertical computational scaling on the performance of a simulation based training prototype currently under development by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The United States military is interested in facilitating Warfighter training by investigating large-scale realistic virtual operational environments. In order to support expanded trai...

This paper defines the concept of virtual campus as a collaborative system. It builds architecture for virtual campus oriented on collaborative training processes. Are established the quality characteristics of the collaborative instruction process and them is associated a metric for measuring the performance level. The construction validation is done on measurements made in the virtual campus ...