A FUZZY LOGIC BASED ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR VR SIMULATED MEDICAL ENVIRONMENTS

 Virtual Reality (VR) systems allows the design of interactive and immersive environments for the simulation of a wide range of situations. These features has been exploited to build realistic applications in order to provide study and training in several areas, particularly in medicine. In this sense, the addition of techniques to assess the actions of users can provide simulations based on virtual reality more efficient for medical training, especially by helping the measure of users' skills after the execution of procedures in such virtual environments. This work details the implementation and integration of an assessment module based on fuzzy logic to a framework for development of virtual reality applications for medical training. Tests to measure the performance of the assessment module were designed over a gynecological examination simulator based on VR. Index Terms  fuzzy logic, medical simulation, skill assessment, virtual reality

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