Authors:
William John Pereira Brobouski
1
;
Andrei Rafael Brongel
1
;
Fabiano Utiyama
1
;
Márcia Cristina Dadalto Pascutti
1
;
Mozart Gonçalves
1
;
João Luís Verdegay de Barros
1
;
Carlos José Gomes
2
and
Edson José Rodrigues Justino
3
Affiliations:
1
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática - PPGIa, PUCPR, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
;
2
Medical School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
;
3
Centro de Inovações em Imagens Médicas - CIIM, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Visible Human Table, Simulator, Anatomy Dissection, Effective Learning.
Abstract:
The anatomy study is required in Life Science related courses. Nowadays, there are no instruments to replace
the real human bodies. Therefore, it was noticed the need of the development of a learning tool to assist the
anatomic study in laboratory which was able to dissect the organs for human anatomy study. Thus, the ultrahigh
interactive simulator for human dissection (Visible Human Table – VHT) was created as a computational
tool for human anatomy study in classrooms. The main characteristic of the simulator is the fact that it is not
an anatomic atlas, but a dissection table based on real body models. That is what makes it stand out from
most same-purpose anatomic simulators and atlases. This article presents the results of a VHT evaluation
assessed by higher education learners in the health sector. The simulator promising potential becomes evident
through the answers obtained from the questionnaire, showing the significant contribution in the anatomy
teaching-learning p
rocess.
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