Spatial Industries Group Inc.

$350,000.00 CAD

≈ 5 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2021-2022
Agreement period
December 6, 2021 – April 8, 2022
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2022-2023-Q1-988183

Published purpose

Digital Humans can be used to train medical students and healthcare professional as an alternative to real-life “Standardized Patients” that are more conventionally used in medical training. Our project will leverage numerous cutting-edge video game technologies to create a solution to provide nursing and medical students with a way to conveniently practice patient-assessment through a configurable branching natural language dialogue system hooked up to photo-realistic dynamically animated virtual patients. The global healthcare system is in dire need of nurses and doctors with the skills to triage and navigate the assessment stage of patients. This product has the potential to significantly reduce the current healthcare training backlog.

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