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Assessing a virtual baby feeding training system

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Alena Petrasova,

Gabriela Czanner,

Silvester Czanner,

Alan ChalmersAuthors Info & Claims

AFRIGRAPH '10: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa

Pages 37 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/1811158.1811165

Published: 21 June 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Currently a considerable amount of time and resources are spent helping parents overcome issues related to feeding young infants. Designing interactive virtual feeding scenarios is a preventative means to reduce the adaptation process time for newly made parents, but also help new parents improve their approach to feeding their children. In this paper, we present a case study on using and assessing a virtual reality infant feeding application. Our results show that virtual training can increase the efficiency of feeding depending on the different behaviour of the child.

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Liu JZhao YWang JXie CCheng FNie JYan GYao CZhou LHansen PYing FWang G(2022)Pababy: An Interactive System for First-time Parents to Learn Neonatal NursingCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts10.1145/3491101.3519722(1-7)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519722
Mitchell GFarrow CHaycraft EMeyer C(2013)Parental influences on children’s eating behaviour and characteristics of successful parent-focussed interventionsAppetite10.1016/j.appet.2012.09.01460(85-94)Online publication date: Jan-2013
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.09.014

Index Terms

Assessing a virtual baby feeding training system
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Graphics recognition and interpretation
  2. Education
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Computer vision
      1. Image and video acquisition
        3D imaging
  2. Computer graphics
    1. Animation

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AFRIGRAPH '10: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Interaction in Africa

June 2010

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ISBN:9781450301183

DOI:10.1145/1811158

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University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Liu JZhao YWang JXie CCheng FNie JYan GYao CZhou LHansen PYing FWang G(2022)Pababy: An Interactive System for First-time Parents to Learn Neonatal NursingCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts10.1145/3491101.3519722(1-7)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491101.3519722
Mitchell GFarrow CHaycraft EMeyer C(2013)Parental influences on children’s eating behaviour and characteristics of successful parent-focussed interventionsAppetite10.1016/j.appet.2012.09.01460(85-94)Online publication date: Jan-2013
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2012.09.014

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