A Mobile-based Virtual Reality Platform for Training and Educating Community Health Workers (CHWs)
Implementing Organization
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
IBM India Research Laboratory, New Delhi
Silchar Medical College and Hospital, Assam
Principal Investigator
Keyur Sorathia
Associate Professor
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Prof. Manmohan Pandey, Department of Machanical Enginnering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, Assam
CO-Principal Investigator
Nitendra Rajput
IBM Research Labs India
CO-Principal Investigator
Papiya Das
Assistant Professor
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Silchar Medical College, Assam
Department of Community Medicine
Project Overview
The lack of education and unskilled workforce of CHWs is well known. Key challenges are insufficient training, non-engaging and ineffective methods, passive learning and no feedback on their learning. This project will design and develop mobile phone based interactive training modules using advances of interaction technologies, driven by virtual and augmented reality and multimodal interfaces. The objective is to train CHWs about important health indicators, which are engaging, expressive, easy to remember and have lasting memory. It will also develop a technology tool for administrators to self-create, update and distribute the training modules without any technical knowhow and support. This will result in easy and quick scalability of interactive training services across CHWs.