title: Gunner Goggles: Implementing Augmented Reality into Medical Education.
abstract: There is evidence that both smartphone and tablet integration into medical education has been lacking. At the same time, there is a niche for augmented reality (AR) to improve this process through the enhancement of textbook learning. Gunner Goggles is an attempt to enhance textbook learning in shelf exam preparatory review with augmented reality. Here we describe our initial prototype and detail the process by which augmented reality was implemented into our textbook through Layar. We describe the unique functionalities of our textbook pages upon augmented reality implementation, which includes links, videos and 3D figures, and surveyed 24 third year medical students for their impression of the technology. Upon demonstrating an initial prototype textbook chapter, 100% (24/24) of students felt that augmented reality improved the quality of our textbook chapter as a learning tool. Of these students, 92% (22/24) agreed that their shelf exam review was inadequate and 19/24 (79%) felt that a completed Gunner Goggles product would have been a viable alternative to their shelf exam review. Thus, while students report interest in the integration of AR into medical education test prep, future investigation into how the use of AR can improve performance on exams is warranted.
authors.affiliation: The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Leo L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Hao-Hua
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: The Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Nadir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bilici
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tenney-Soeiro
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D063731:Mobile Applications; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D000068997:Smartphone; D014584:User-Computer Interface