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A Mobile-based Virtual Reality Platform for Training and Educating Community Health Workers (CHWs)

Implementing Organization

Principal Investigator
Keyur Sorathia
Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati
CO-Principal Investigator
Nitendra Rajput
IBM Research Labs India, Papiya Das, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Silchar Medical College, Assam

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.
Funding Organization
Funding Organization
Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Govt. of India
Quick Information
Area of Research
Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Focus Area
ICT Tools for Healthcare and Assistive Technology, Science communication
Status
ongoing
Contact
keyur@iitg.ac.in, p_d802002@yahoo.co.in
Output
No. of Research Paper
00
Technologies (If Any)
00
No. of PhD Produced
00
Publications
00
No. of Patents
Filed : 00
Grant : 00
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