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An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2014)

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We report an eye tracking experiment conducted on a virtual pediatric patient system to determine the effect of different visual interface layouts on the amount of visual interaction of student nurses with a virtual mother-child dyad. The results of this experiment provide insight into the tradeoffs between using animated or non-animated virtual patients and relative advantages/disadvantages of interacting with the system though a tablet interface.

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Pence, T.B., Dukes, L.C., Hodges, L.F., Meehan, N.K., Johnson, A. (2014). An Eye Tracking Evaluation of a Virtual Pediatric Patient Training System for Nurses. In: Bickmore, T., Marsella, S., Sidner, C. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8637. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09767-1_43

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