ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Virtual Real.
Sec. Virtual Reality in Medicine
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frvir.2025.1545569
This article is part of the Research TopicA Metaverse for the Good: Design, Application and UnderstandingView all 21 articles
Towards Teleconsultations in the Metaverse: Design and Preliminary Study of an Immersive Teleclinic for Neuro-psychological Assessment
Provisionally accepted
Yannick Prié1*
Toinon Vigier1*
Didier Acier1
Hélène Bonneville1Manon Georges1Solène Thévenet2Samuel Bulteau1,2- 1Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
- 2Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Nantes, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France
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Virtual Reality and Metaverse technologies allow to design new telemedicine services such as teleconsultation that could take place within immersive teleclinics. Here we focus on distant neuro-psychological testing, an important topic both for diagnostic and monitoring of cognitive disabilities, notably allowing for distant longitudinal monitoring of patients. Our interdisciplinary team has designed a collaborative virtual reality tool for clinicians to carry out such immersive testing sessions. The patient first waits for the clinician in the waiting room, and the actual session is then a mix of discussion, desk-based, and independent test activities. Tests are accompanied and monitored by the clinician with various dashboards based on collected data. In this article we present our approach for immersive teleclinics, the design process of our social VR application, and our main choices. We detail the various environments and activities we have built, and present the results of a first evaluation on usability (with SUS), presence (MPS) and acceptability (UTAUTQ) for healhty participants (pseudo-patients) and practitioners. We also discuss the more general lessons we have learned for the design of immersive teleclinics.
Keywords: Cognitive testing, Immersive Teleclinic, Metaverse, Neuro-psychology, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine, virtual reality
Received: 15 Dec 2024; Accepted: 16 Jun 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Prié, Vigier, Acier, Bonneville, Georges, Thévenet and Bulteau. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Yannick Prié, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
Toinon Vigier, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France
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