A Participatory Design Approach to Develop a VR-Based Electrocardiogram Training Simulator

Harris Nisar, Arnav Shah, Avinash Gupta, Abraham Kocheril

Abstract: Virtual Reality (VR) allows complete immersion in virtual environments. VR is used in many applications including training healthcare professionals in a time and cost effective manner. Effectively incorporating clinical feedback into simulation design to ensure usability of the software is a challenge. In this paper, a discussion of a pipeline which was developed to allow for efficient participatory design for the creation of a VR-based electrocardiogram training simulator. Further, the results from the usability, content validity, and face validity which was conducted to assess the ECG simulator is presented. The results indicate that the proposed approach can be used to create and assess other VR-based medical training simulators.