Usability of a Foreign Body Object Scenario in VR for Nursing Education

With this study, the researchers created a Virtual Environment (VE) where nursing students could practice managing a scenario of an adult patient with a respiratory foreign body object. The VE was exposed to rigorous usability and user experience testing with the help of two expert review panels, one made up of Computer Science experts and one of Health Science experts. Each panel evaluated the VE and scenario using heuristic evaluation and cognitive walkthroughs. The results and recommendations were implemented to improve the VE, thus enabling students to experience an accurate virtual scenario in their training. The improved VE based on the results of the expert reviews are presented in this paper.