Paper Info
Title
Application areas of multi-user virtual environments in the healthcare context.
Abstract
This study conducts a systematic literature review on the application of the three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW) in healthcare context. During the past decade, 3DVWs have emerged as a cutting edge technology that has much to offer to the healthcare sector. Our systematic review began with an initial set of 1088 studies published from 1990 to 2013 which have used 3DVWs for the healthcare specific purposes. We found a variety of areas of application for the 3DVWs in healthcare, and categorised them into the following categories: education, treatment, evaluation, lifestyle and simulation. The presented big picture of application areas of 3DVWs in this study can be very valuable and insightful for the researchers and healthcare community.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/978-1-61499-427-5-38
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Three-dimensional virtual worlds,3DVW,multi-user virtual environment,MUVE,healthcare,health
Information system,Health care,Management information systems,Metaverse,Virtual machine,Social media,Systematic review,Knowledge management,Medicine,Health systems engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
204
0926-9630
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Reza Ghanbarzadeh131.06
Amir Hossein Ghapanchi215717.27
Michael Blumenstein310.69