{"id":92405,"date":"2024-07-26T11:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92405"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:46:15","slug":"using-vr-to-put-oneself-into-anothers-shoes-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/07\/26\/using-vr-to-put-oneself-into-anothers-shoes-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Using VR to put oneself into another&#8217;s shoes\/reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/News\/article\/researchers-develop-vr-training-to-tackle-racial-disparity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Researchers develop VR training to tackle racial disparity<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from inavateonthenet.net<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a VR training system for physicians, aimed at tackling racial and class health disparities.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cUltimately, this virtual reality training system could become a viable tool for practicing communication with diverse patients across different types of health care professions. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason why nurses couldn\u2019t also use this across different health care contexts \u2014 not just for Black maternal health, but chronic pain, diabetes or some of these other health issues in which we know that there are disparities based on markers of difference such as race or class\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/News\/article\/researchers-develop-vr-training-to-tackle-racial-disparity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/iml\/image\/upload\/w_1024,c_scale\/c_crop,g_custom\/v1721810516\/widgetdocs\/Illinois_xesdex.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Two additional VR training modules are under development, aimed at promoting self-reflection by helping medical students to identify their own biases and learn how to mitigate them. The third module will focus on students practicing intercultural communication skills through interactions with a virtual patient, an approach that is seen by the researchers as more cost-effective than recruiting people for role playing with medical students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I\u2019ve often thought that VR could be used to help us walk in someone else\u2019s shoes&#8230;.to experience things as THEY experience things.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers develop VR training to tackle racial disparity &#8212; from inavateonthenet.net Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a VR training system for physicians, aimed at tackling racial and class health disparities. &#8230; \u201cUltimately, this virtual reality training system could become a viable tool for practicing communication with diverse patients across different types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354,286,32,210,141,359,3,418,180,276,7,838,87,480,293,835,195,118,321,214,253,11,824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-av-audiovisual","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-health","category-higher-education","category-immersion","category-innovation","category-interactivity","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-spaces","category-society","category-sociology","category-telemedicine-telehealth","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-united-states","category-universities","category-virtual-reality-worlds-learning","category-vision-possibilities","category-xr-extended-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92420,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92405\/revisions\/92420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}