Information Dynamics, Sensory Ethnography and Simulation in Healthcare Education

Visual Methodologies Conference Neuchatel University 20.6.2014PhDst Anna-Kaisa SjölundUniversity of Turku, digital [email protected]

Information Dynamics, Sensory Ethnography and Simulation in

Healthcare Education


Intro

• This presentation focuses on visual information dynamics, simulation and sensory ethnography.

• Visual sense is in central part in sensory ethnography, but sensory experiences can understand only through holistic experience.


Information Dynamics• Augmented and mixed realities use

information to both share and produce services.

• Information visualization is among higher education connected to the e-learning environments.

• According Colin Ware visualization offers ability to understand and use huge amount of data and also be used to look at the ways in which information is collected.


Sensory Ethnography

• Sensory ethnography helps researcher to think, detect and describe information dynamics in immersive education environment.

• Images are powerful tools to share information. Connecting voice or hearing, to images results to digital storytelling as learning method in higher education.


Sensory Ethnography

• Connecting augmented reality applications with virtual worlds and simulation education brings still images, videos and 3D models as newest venture in action.

• Sensory ethnography is a tool to examine experiences, where senses affect. It belongs to ethnographical method as well as interviews, participant observation, queries etc. As such, it cannot be considered as a method.


Simulation• There is little difference between

simulation and gaming - both are connected to computer-aided learning, but with gaming the aim is to reach new levels or collect points..

• Simulation includes collaborative learning, information sharing and producing new information without moving to the next level or has a winning aspect.


Simulation in professional healthcare education

• Education through simulations is often well founded by effectiveness and security. There is a great difference what individuals think about the term ‘game’ depending on whether they played or did not play video games while growing up. This is an age-related question.

• Gaming relates closely to virtual worlds, augmenting and simulation.

• Serious games are economically significant. It is estimated that healthcare providers (training for surgery, for emergency medical response and for managing surgical teams) generated some USD 1.5 billion in 2008 for serious games markets .

• In healthcare and medical studies simulation and modeling have adopted via technological achievements as strong information visualization methods. The use of visual, audio and occasionally olfactory models and simulations offers for educators’ safe and more organized training sessions.

• Simulations and modeling comes in long ride cheaper for education unit, but modeling and creating simulations sessions need well-organized finance.


Conclusions• Experiences about immersive education among healthcare

students and educators were positive and encouraging to continue.

• In immersive education environment senses are in central stage and the learning is always social occasion. Simulation offers more authentic environment to use more than two senses in time.

• Sensory ethnography is still only begun. It is forward-thinking to speak about multisensory ethnography, as it is focused almost exclusively on the sense of sight.

• Sensory ethnography can understand only through holistic experiences. All the senses work together to produce and the resulting impact on the production of information. We actually don’t need the word multi with sensory ethnography

Information Dynamics, Sensory Ethnography and Simulation in Healthcare Education

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