Poster presented at the GRAPP 2016 - 11th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Application. 27-29 February 2016, RomeN/

Carmo, Maria Beatriz

Cavaco, Afonso

Cláudio, Ana Paula

Guerreiro, Mara Pereira

Pinha, Ana

Pinto, Vítor

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ABSTRACTi) an interactive application conceived to improve non‐prescription medicines consultation skills in undergraduate Pharmacy students and ii) a user test carried out with two sets of participants. #paper23Virtual Humans Playing the Role of Patients in Self‐medication Consultations: Perspectives of Undergraduate Pharmacy StudentsAna Paula Cláudio1, Maria Beatriz Carmo1, Mara Pereira Guerreiro3,4,  Afonso Cavaco2, Vítor Pinto1, Ana Pinha11BioISI‐ Biosystems & Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal 2Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal3CiiEM‐ Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz, Monte da Caparica, Portugal4Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal{apc, bc}@di.fc.ul.pt, mguerreiro@egasmoniz.edu.pt, acavaco@ff.ulisboa.pt, {fc41036, fc37397}@alunos.fc.ul.ptAcknowledgementsWe thank the financialsupport given by:http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~apc/VirtualPharmacy/Virtual humans play the role of patients and communicate with the student by speech and by facial and body language. The application has two usage modes: the training mode, used autonomously by the student, and the assessmentmodewhich is used by the teacher to evaluate the student’s performance.A BackOffice Web application was also implemented to assist teachers’ work.  It supports the collection of data about students’ performance, the creation of new self‐medication situations and their posterior insertion in the application. The teachers depict a graph of the dialogues for the new self‐medication situation in an intuitive and user‐friendly graphical interface. Ordem dos FarmacêuticosSecção Regional do Sul e Regiões AutónomasTwo sets of Pharmaceutical Sciences students participated:• 10 undergraduate students in the 4th year ; • 42 students  performing their curricular internship behind a counter in a community pharmacy. The overall results are quite positive; lower scores are related to the realistic appearance of the VH playing the role of patients. The internships considered the prototype could become a powerful tool to learn and to consolidate knowledge, as long as it offers more situations. They mentioned that it can be a tool for students, but also for professionals that need to review and update their professional capacities: it can help remembering concepts and principles learned in school but already forgotten. 

Virtual humans playing the role of patients in self‐medication consultations : perspectives of undergraduate pharmacy students

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Virtual humans playing the role of patients in self‐medication consultations : perspectives of undergraduate pharmacy students

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