Virtual reality as training technology in the health field: a literature review

The present work is an integrative review that aims to answer the following guiding question: how is virtual reality being applied as an educational technology in the health area? The databases used for the search were Pubmed, Virtual Health Library (VHL) in the health area, IEEEXplore and ACM Digital Library in the technology area. For this work, the following inclusion criteria were established: studies on the use of simulators as educational technology; free access articles; be available online in full; be in Portuguese and / or English; published from 2015 to 2020. Articles of literature review, dissertations, theses and editorials were excluded. A total of 1,563 articles were obtained, of which 21 went on to descriptive analysis. Most of the articles came from the Pubmed database, fourteen, six articles were added from the VHL and only one study was included from the ACM. The discussion of the results emerged from two categories: Characterization of the use of virtual reality in the area of health and Considerations on the applicability of virtual reality in the area of health. As a contribution, this review may serve as a guide for the expansion of virtual reality, while pointing out the potential and weaknesses of its use as training technology in the health area.

RESEARCH OF THE PROJECT-BASED TECHNOLOGY LEARNING POTENTIAL AS A MEANS OF FORMATION OF ENGINEERS-TEACHERS’ PROFESSIONAL MOBILITY

The article substantiates the expediency of using project-based learning technology as a means of forming future engineers-teachers' professional mobility in the computer technology area. This is due to the general trends of the modern economy and the growing role of specialists’ professional mobility in the technology modernization in all industries. It has been emphasized that project-learning technology is an important component of professional training of future specialists in engineering and pedagogical education. It has been established that the organization of the above-mentioned technology is based on project activities that contribute to the educational process adaptation to innovative changes. The methodology of engineers-teachers' professional mobility formation in the computer technology area, which provides project-based learning technology application, has been proved. It has been noted that the use of project-based learning technology in professional mobility formation contributes to the intensification, efficiency and quality of the educational process. The range of problem-based learning methods (active, contextual, research, interactive, computer), which are the basis of project technology and expand the integration possibilities of engineering and pedagogical knowledge to solve professional problems, has been described. The efficiency of project-based learning technology in forming future engineers-teachers' professional mobility in the computer technology area has been proved. Emphasis has been placed on activating the need to reflect on one’s own experience, perform research, realize professional creativity essence, and develop the ability to professional design.

Information Technology Audit at XYZ Agency, a Government Institution, Using COBIT 5 Framework in Domain Delivery, Service and Support

Technology has become an important component used by humans to facilitate them in finishing work in this digital era. XYZ institution utilizes technology, especially in the field of e-government to help each employee in doing their duties and responsibilities. In carrying out the responsibility as a government agency especially that is involving or related to the field of information technology may sometimes encounter problem. To find out the extent of information technology management in the XYZ institution, an audit is required. An audit, in the form of COBIT 5 framework within the DSS Domain, was carried out to oversee the work as well as infrastructure management within the information technology area in the XYZ institution. The result of the audit conclude that the within the DSS domain the organization reached level 2 which means task are being done but not yet managed by the organization. There are rooms for improvement by establishing the process through standard operation procedures (SOP).

STUDENTS' LITERACY CULTURE IN NON DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AREA (PESANTREN)

Literacy is a social practice. In the past, literacy was only focused on reading and writing. Recently, literacy can happen everywhere, become a culture and people can make meaning of the practice. Literacy also cannot be separated from technology nowadays. Most people become digital natives to accomplish their daily business in which it is also the literacy activities. This study wants to clarify students’ preference in reading, to know students’ multimodal literacy, to probe students’ literacy practice in Pesantren, and to probe students’ literacy cultures if there are some digital technology stuffs. By applying qualitative approach using questionnaires and semi-structured interview to students, the results showed that mostly students were not really love reading (medium) in Pesantren because of no any book collections, the obligation of their own regulation to finish what they have read, boredom reading, no much time to read due to some other activities in Pesantren and preference to sleep rather than to read in Pesantren. Students also preferred reading novel as their multimodal literacy in Pesantren. The following answers, students conveyed that they felt so-so after doing literacy practice. The last, the answers related to the literacy culture if they meet some digital technology stuffs were various. Most students would not read at all at home when they get holiday. Most students also were very agreed if they have access to digital technology stuffs in Pesantren, but the claims also showed that the presence of digital technology stuffs would disturb their reading quality. Therefore, the students’ literacy cultures in non-digital technology area are average because they have various main activities of Pesantren to do and the availability of the access to some digital technology stuffs in Pesantren are seen disturbing.

DIGITAL ENGINEERING: COMPETENCE ACQUISITION AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AS AN OPEN CO-CREATION PROCESS

Dealing with the increasingly complex interrelationships in companies, technologies and markets requires engineers to have a holistic, systemic understanding of digital change. Future engineers need future skills and must be able to react to ever faster changing technical requirements by independently expanding their knowledge, developing (technology-based) solution strategies as well as designing, evaluating and communicating these with regard to social, ecological and cultural aspects and requirements. In order to integrate these future skills into existing curricula, study programs must be designed in such a way that they are permeable to continuous and agile adaptation in relation to new knowledge and new technologies. This process can only succeed if universities see themselves as open learning systems that promote co-creation processes among all university stakeholders. The Faculty of Process Engineering, Energy and Mechanical Systems at TH Köln/University of Applied Sciences has recently recognized the resulting need for a transformation process in program development and has further developed the consecutive master's program "Mechanical Engineering/Smart Systems", in which agile learning environments and innovation spaces are created. However, the redesign and further development of modules is not enough. A holistic, systemic understanding in dealing with transformative technologies requires a cultural change in which lecturers and students shape the digital transformation on an equal footing. In a joint learning and research process, they iteratively and agilely test which competencies best prepare students for an increasingly digitalized workplace and which analog and virtual learning spaces this requires. As part of the project "Digital Engineering - Competence Acquisition for Mechanical Engineers in the Digital Age", the faculty is currently implementing the Technology Area, a measure whose aim is to accompany these digital transformation processes at the faculty and to provide lecturers and students with the necessary freedom to experiment with new technologies in teaching. Here, subject-specific teaching and research concepts for the use of new technologies are to be developed and tested together in a co-creation process. The first concepts developed in the Technology Area as well as other Best Practices from the faculty will be presented in the paper. These include the Mixed-Reality-Game FutureING, the Serious Game Worlds of Materials and the development of a StudiCoachBot. In order to promote co-creation processes within and outside the university, a Digitalization Conference was held in May as part of the project to present innovative and forward-looking innovations in engineering education. The reflection of all of the presented initiatives is structurally anchored and professionalized by the House of Excellence in Engineering Education.

Intelligent Shopping Cart Using RFID and RF Module

The looking could be a essential requirement of individuals, that covers completely different fields, from vegetable and grocery search to apparel. In general, individuals accustomed go { completely different} retailers to shop for their different variety of artifact. Now days, retailers area unit unified, we will notice all the essential things beneath the one slate, that is thought as looking .The statistics of the minor and major looking malls grows over the years throughout the planet thanks to the request of the community. Thus, this results in the expansion within the level and formation of a mall. In our country, there area unit still plentiful would like for upgrading the facilities for providing the commendable looking to shoppers. Customers oft affect difficulties and bother once search. These issues conjointly contain worrying regarding the whole quantity of cash, inadequate info regarding the things that area unit purchasable and offers of the day, and conjointly waiting within the queue at the charge counter for bill cause wasting the superfluous time. For partitioning the issues explicit higher than varied ways area unit developed, however the effectualness remains thought-about for the betterment and improves the looking expertise. samples of these varied existing ways like barcode technology, wherever the worth is hold on within the barcode and RFID technology area unit enforced.

Oleogels—Their Applicability and Methods of Characterization

Oleogels or, more precisely, non-triglyceride structured lipid phases have been researched excessively in the last decade. Yet, no comprehensive knowledge base has emerged, allowing technology elevation from the laboratory bench into the industrial food application. That is partly due to insufficient characterization of the structuring systems studied. Examining a single composition decided upon by arbitrary methods does not stimulate progress in the research and technology area. A framework that gives much better guidance to product applications can easily be derived. For example, the incremental structure contribution concept is advocated as a parameter to compare the potency of structuring systems. These can straightforwardly be determined by combining solubility data and structural measurements in the recommended manner. The current method to determine the oil-binding capacity suffers from reproducibility and relevance. A newly developed method is suggested to overcome these shortcomings. The recommended new characterization of oleogels should contribute to a more comprehensive knowledge base necessary for product innovations.

Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors’ R&D Failures

I analyze project continuation decisions where firms may resolve uncertainty through news about competitors’ research and development (R&D) failures, as well as through their own results. I examine the tradeoffs and interactions between product-market competition and technological learning from parallel R&D projects. Leveraging the biopharmaceutical industry’s unique characteristics to overcome barriers to measuring project-level responses, I use a difference-in-differences strategy to evaluate how competitor exit news alters a firm’s own project discontinuation decisions. The findings reveal that technological learning dominates competition effects. Firms are most sensitive to competitor failure news from within the same market and same technology area—more than doubling their propensity to terminate drug development projects in the wake of this type of information. Finally, I explore how levels of competition, uncertainty, and opportunities to learn moderate the response to competitor failure news. This paper was accepted by Joshua Gans, business strategy.

Development of Risk Breakdown Structure for Online Learning Project during COVID-19 Crisis

This research aims to develop risk breakdown structure specifically for virtual learning projects in higher institution. Transition from physical face-to-face study into virtual learning practices during COVID-19 mitigation phase had been selected as main focus to construct risks identification. Opinions and experiences from 35 stakeholders in university level had been gathered and analyzed using triangulation and meta-language of risk statement methods, in order to maintain statements’ validity and quality based on project management’s standard. All registered risks were listed using universal risk breakdown structure format, which emphasized on three risk areas: internal, external, and technology, in order to categorize risk based on its sources and identify area with high exposure of risk. The result proposed 11 risk statements with highest exposure of risk on technology area. This result indicated that virtual learning organizers need to consider strategies and mitigation process in technology area, specifically on the infrastructure readiness, user capabilities, and communication gap inside the virtual environment.