Assessing Usability of Untethered Head-Mounted Displays for Medical Education: A Within-Person Randomized Trial.

Shannon K T Bailey¹, Joanna E Lewis, Brendan A Ciccone, Richard L Friedland, Colleen C Reiner

¹From the Immertec (Immersive Tech, Inc; S.K.T.B., B.A.C., R.L.F.), Tampa, FL; University of Northern Colorado (J.E.L.), Greely, CO; and Center for Advanced Medical Learning and Simulation (C.C.R.), University of South Florida Health (C.C.R.), Tampa, FL.

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INTRODUCTION: Recent meta-analyses have found immersive technology to be effective for training, yet there is limited research on user experience with head-mounted displays (HMDs) in the medical domain. If emerging immersive displays do not meet usability standards in the context of healthcare simulation, the technology may cause frustration or hinder learning outcomes. This is the first experimen…

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