virtual intelligent agents to train abilities of diagnosis

Virtual Intelligent Agents to Virtual Intelligent Agents to Train Abilities of Diagnosis in Train Abilities of Diagnosis in Psychology and PsychiatryPsychology and Psychiatry

IADAT. 4th International Conference on Education

Enhance the training of mental health Enhance the training of mental health profesionals in the skills required to profesionals in the skills required to perform a correct clinical interview.perform a correct clinical interview.

ObjectiveObjective


¿What is Virtual Reality?¿What is Virtual Reality?

“That computer technology that creates three-dimensional environments with which the user can

interact in real time producing a sensation of immersion very similar to the sense of presence in

real world”


Properties of Virtual RealityProperties of Virtual Reality

Immersion:Immersion: Stimulation of the different sensorial channels (using visual and auditory devices)

Interaction:Interaction: VR not imply a passive visualization of a virtual world, the user can interact and, more important, the virtual world responds in real time to those actions.


VR provides a medium to learn by doing, VR provides a medium to learn by doing, through a first person experience. Performing through a first person experience. Performing

the task enhances the learning processthe task enhances the learning process

VR is frequently used forVR is frequently used forprofessional trainingprofessional training ofof

many kindsmany kinds

To date only exists one application for training

mental health professionals


Training for mental health professionalsTraining for mental health professionals

The Bus RideThe Bus Ride

Educate healthcare professionals about the symptoms experienced by a psychotic patient

Puts the learner on a city bus and surrounds them with the same visual and auditory hallucinations that experience a patient with schizophrenia


¿Why to choose VR as an ¿Why to choose VR as an educational method?educational method?

Practice with real patients during the studies is very difficult, so a good alternative is to train the students with virtual patients.

VE encourage the active participation of the student. This promotes the development of operational and formal thinking.

Any new method of education implies an increase of student’s attention towards it.

Provides high similarity with real life situations but does not expose the student to situations for which she is still not prepared.

When using VR the student can proceed at their own pace, and during a broad period of time, facilitating the self-training and over-learning.


Virtual office room in which the learner can realize a clinical interview to different patients via a

videoconference


Diagnostic Group Specific Mental DisordersPsychotic disorders Schizophrenia

Schizoaffective disorderSchizophreniform disorderDelusional disorder

Mood disorders Bipolar I disorderBipolar II disorderCyclothymic disorder

Anxiety disorders Generalized anxiety disorderObsessive compulsive disorder

Eating disorders Bulimia Nervosa disorder

Somatoform disorders Hypochondriasis

Personality disorders Borderline personality disorder 1Borderline personality disorder 2

13 virtual patients

The virtual agents were constructed using a series of parameters that define their

verbal, emotional and motor responses


Examples of virtual patients

Psychotic patient Bipolar patient


Task: Obtain enough data to formulate a diagnosis

The student can selects the most suitable question at

each stage of the interview


If the student selects the correct diagnostic, the system only accept it if

the patient has been adequately examined

Each list of alternatives of questions also have a list of possible diagnostics

Feedback is given each time the student chooses a question or a

diagnostic hypothesis


Once the student gives the correct diagnosis, at a suitable moment of the interview, she will be able to

formulate a prognosis


VIDEO


Head Mounted Display (HMD)

Personal Computer

HARDWARE

Several studies have reported improved learning with more immersive systems like the Head Mounted Displays


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