A Mixed Reality Application to better understand the development processes of the human embryonic heart.
Embryonic development involves complex shape transitions over short periods, making it spatially intricate and challenging to comprehend. This ongoing project investigates visualization and interaction techniques within Mixed Reality environments to enhance medical students’ understanding of these processes in anatomy education.
The project followed an iterative design approach, beginning with the development of a fully immersive VR environment. This initial system was evaluated in a technical study (click here for the paper), earning a 🏅 Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE VR 2023 in Shanghai. Building on this foundation, the focus shifted to examining the learning effects of the application. Insights from this phase led to enhancements and expansions of the system, culminating in a second study (click here for the paper).
Interest then grew in creating a multi-user application on a new hardware platform to explore collaborative learning approaches. Expert evaluations informed this development, resulting in a third study (click here for the paper). Building on this, a fourth study was conducted to simulate a seminar simulation, which received a 🏅 Best Short Paper Honorable Mention at EG VCBM 2024 in Magdeburg (click here for the paper).
Ultimately, the project addressed the question: How do individual and collaborative MR-based learning environments differ in supporting educational outcomes for embryonic heart development? This inquiry led to the so far last study in this series, recognized with the 🏆 Best Paper Award at ACM VRST 2024 in Trier (click here for the paper).
NOTE: more details of each individual study can be found in my portfolio subpage.
