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Helping Hands: Using Augmented Reality to Provide Remote Guidance to Health Professionals

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posted on 2023-05-19, 10:01 authored by Carey MatherCarey Mather, Anthony Barnett, Vlastimil BroucekVlastimil Broucek, Annette SaundersAnnette Saunders, Darren GrattidgeDarren Grattidge, Huang, W
Access to expert practitioners or geographic distance can compound the capacity for appropriate supervision of health professionals in the workplace. Guidance and support of clinicians and students to undertake new or infrequent procedures can be resource intensive. The Helping Hands remote augmented reality system is an innovation to support the development of, and oversee the acquisition of procedural skills through remote learning and teaching supervision while in clinical practice. Helping Hands is a wearable, portable, hands-free, low cost system comprised of two networked laptops, a head-mounted display worn by the recipient and a display screen used remotely by the instructor. Hand hygiene was used as the test procedure as it is a foundation skill learned by all health profession students. The technology supports unmediated remote gesture guidance by augmenting the object with the Helping Hands of a health professional. A laboratory-based study and field trial tested usability and feasibility of the remote guidance system. The study found the Helping Hands system did not compromise learning outcomes. This innovation has the potential to transform remote learning and teaching supervision by enabling health professionals and students opportunities to develop and improve their procedural performance at the workplace.

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Office for Learning & Teaching

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Publication title

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volume

241

Pagination

57-62

ISSN

0926-9630

Department/School

School of Nursing

Publisher

I O S Press

Place of publication

Netherlands

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© 2017 The authors and IOS Press. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Health education and promotion

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