Customizable XR Patient Simulator for Rapid Healthcare Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing extended reality (XR) systems for healthcare education lack the ability to adapt virtual environments quickly and easily to meet specific educational user needs, limiting their effectiveness in providing immersive and realistic training experiences.
Innovation Solution
A customizable XR patient simulator system that includes a controller, sensors, a display, and a rapid case creation tool, allowing users to create, modify, and operate XR patient cases through a graphical representation of executable program elements, enabling dynamic and realistic simulations for healthcare education.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing XR systems are used for healthcare education, then immersive training experiences are provided, but the ability to adapt virtual environments rapidly to meet specific educational user needs is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the virtual environment into modular components including pre-defined patient cases, customizable parameters, and separate educational modules. This segmentation allows rapid reconfiguration of training scenarios by assembling different modules without redesigning the entire system, thereby improving adaptability while managing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic adaptability through runtime configuration capabilities where educational parameters, patient scenarios, and training objectives can be modified during operation. This dynamic adjustment mechanism enables the virtual environment to adapt rapidly to specific educational needs without requiring system reconfiguration or complex programming changes.
2Productivity
If existing XR systems are used for healthcare education, then immersive training experiences are provided, but rapid adaptation to specific educational user needs is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides pre-configured patient cases, standardized training scenarios, and template-based educational modules that are prepared in advance. These preliminary configurations enable rapid deployment of customized training environments by simply selecting and modifying pre-built components rather than creating everything from scratch, thereby improving both adaptation speed and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements copy-and-modify functionality where existing patient cases and training scenarios can be duplicated and then customized for specific educational needs. This copying mechanism allows rapid creation of variant scenarios by replicating proven templates and making targeted adjustments, significantly improving productivity while maintaining ease of operation through intuitive modification interfaces.
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AI summary
An educational system and method to provide various extended reality environments that are easily adaptable to a user's educational needs. The system includes a controller, a display, one or more sensors, a feedback unit and a rapid case creation tool. The rapid case creation tool is formed on the display to provide a graphical representation of at least a portion of the executable program elements to the user for manipulation in order to create and customize logic for a particular case or related learning, training or educational experience. In one form, the rapid case creation tool includes a case data module and a case logic module cooperative with one another such that upon manipulation by the user of at least a portion of the graphical representation of the executable program elements, the system performs at least one of creation, modification and operation of an extended reality patient case.