Mather Carey, Barnett Tony, Broucek Vlasti, Saunders Annette, Grattidge Darren, Huang Weidong
University of Tasmania, Australia.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2017;241:57-62.
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.
接触专业从业者的机会或地理距离可能会增加在工作场所对卫生专业人员进行适当监督的难度。为临床医生和学生提供有关开展新的或不常见程序的指导和支持可能需要大量资源。“援手”远程增强现实系统是一项创新，旨在通过远程学习和教学监督来支持程序技能的培养和监督，同时应用于临床实践。“援手”是一个可穿戴、便携、免提的低成本系统，由两台联网的笔记本电脑、接收者佩戴的头戴式显示器和指导教师远程使用的显示屏组成。手部卫生被用作测试程序，因为这是所有卫生专业学生都要学习的一项基础技能。该技术通过用卫生专业人员的“援手”增强对象，支持无中介的远程手势指导。一项基于实验室的研究和现场试验测试了远程指导系统的可用性和可行性。研究发现，“援手”系统不会影响学习效果。这项创新有可能通过为卫生专业人员和学生提供在工作场所发展和提高其程序操作能力的机会，从而改变远程学习和教学监督。
