ACORFORMed, VR applied to the field of medicine

ACORFORMed is a research project funded by the ANR (French National Research Agency) aiming to improve the training of doctors through Virtual Reality. The tool translates into an animated conversation agent featuring a virtual patient, with the purpose of improving the quality of interaction between a doctor and its patient.

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Missions

Immersion’s expertise in the fields of immersive technologies allows the company to share its skills in the field of hardware implementation as part of a virtual reality environment, as well as in developing the human-machine interface of the project by integrating tools allowing for the capture of additional behavior based information. Therefore, Immersion’s research team offers new hardware and software solutions to ease the synchronized gathering of users’ signals (movement, eyes, physiology).

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Duration: 3 years
Beginning: october 2015
Funding: ANR

Partners

Academic Partners:
- LSIS
- LPL
- ISM
- LTCI
Socio-Economic Partners:
- Institut Paoli-Calmettes
- CHU Angers
Industrial Partners:
- Immersion
- Semantics-AI
Website of the project: http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~acorformed/

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