Three-Dimensional Virtual Environments That Support Hospitalized Children´s Learning: A Systematic Review

Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (RA) systems are found in large-scale three-dimensional virtual training systems in various fields of knowledge, especially in health care. In the context of hospitals, Three-Dimensional Virtual Environments (3D VEs) can collaborate to knowledge acquisition of children who remain hospitalized for long periods, away from the school environment and from the interaction with teachers and classmates. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to present results of a Systematic Review (SR), which seeks to identify the application of 3D VEs to support hospitalized children´s learning process, besides identifying which interaction strategies have been used and which human factors have been explored in such environments. The results allowed researchers to formulate hypotheses based on the human factors and interaction strategies identified, and to specify a Preliminary Reference Model to support the development of Three-Dimensional Virtual Learning Environments (3D VLEs) to assist the hospitalized children.