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Pragati: design and evaluation of a mobile phone-based head mounted virtual reality interface to train community health workers in rural India

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Shimmila Bhowmick,

Rajkumar Darbar,

Keyur SorathiaAuthors Info & Claims

NordiCHI '18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Pages 299 - 310

https://doi.org/10.1145/3240167.3240201

Published: 29 September 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Community Health Workers (CHWs), specially Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) play a significant role in improving healthcare services in developing countries like India. Although ASHAs are key-actors influencing rural health care, they are inefficiently trained. This leads to sub-optimal knowledge and skill sets, hence poor information delivery among community members. In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of Pragati, a mobile-based Head Mounted Display (HMD) enabled Virtual Reality (VR) interface for training ASHAs. A user study conducted among 19 users revealed significant learnability and self-efficacy post-Pragati usage. Further, we conducted a between-group study among 57 CHWs to assess effects of 3 platforms (i) Pragati, (ii) mobile phone-based traditional videos and (iii) mobile phone-based 360-degree video on measures of learnability, self-efficacy, engagement, and presence. The results showed no impact of the platform for learnability and self-efficacy, whereas a significant increase in engagement and presence was observed for Pragati.

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DOI:10.1145/3240167

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