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Virtual Human for Assisted Healthcare: Application and Technology

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Assisted healthcare; Realism; Virtual human character

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Modern healthcare is constantly discovering and exploring the contributions that virtual reality can make to healthcare. The adoption of virtual human characters has had a success growth, in the past decades, in education, movies, games, and embodied conversational agents (ECAs). However, the growing interest of virtual reality in healthcare might stimulate a renewed interest in virtual human character. Therefore, this paper introduces the potential application areas of virtual human character (VHC) in healthcare from the point of view of realism and draws attention to the technology behind VHC as it pertains to realism.

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Modern healthcare is constantly discovering and exploring the contributions that virtual reality can make to healthcare. The usefulness of virtual reality in healthcare was discovered as far back as the 1990s during a surgery planning when a team of medical practitioners needed to...

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  1. Information System Management(ISM), College of Business Informatics, University of Information Technology and Communications, Baghdad, Iraq

    Itimad Raheem Ali & Huda Kadhim Tayyeh

  2. Business of Information Technology(BIT), College of Business Informatics, University of Information Technology and Communications, Baghdad, Iraq

    Ahmed Sabah Ahmed

  3. Department of Computer Science, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

    Hoshang Kolivand

  4. Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia

    Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz

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Ali, I.R., Ahmed, A.S., Tayyeh, H.K., Kolivand, H., Alkawaz, M.H. (2019). Virtual Human for Assisted Healthcare: Application and Technology. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_363-1

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