E-Practical and Immersive Technology Learning Package

This project is an initiative driven by Polytechnics & ITE (POLITE) Education Technology Committee to provide immersive learning in realistic work environments for preparation of health and safety challenges.  The applications are shared across the five polytechnics as well as ITE and can be accessed via a web browser or Head Mounted Device e.g. Oculus.  This application provides:

• Real-world scenarios for students to apply their prior knowledge in response to fire risks and hazards
• Feedback to deepen understanding and reinforce learning
• A real-time dashboard capable of identifying students’ learning gaps

SMART Serious Game  Analytics Engine for Learners

This platform incorporates non-entertainment elements into an interactive game environment to enhance teaching and learning.  It comes with a SMART Serious Game Analytics Engine that leverages on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to analyse the learners’ learning journey, so as to measure a learner’s improvement.  The learner’s in-game actions, decisions and behaviour are recorded and analysed so that personalised learning strategies can be recommended to facilitate improvements.  This project was selected for the 2022 Innergy Silver Award by the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

TPEBot - TP Educational Chatbot

This is a platform that can be used to build educational chatbots to act as either a teaching-learning assistant or a self-regulated learning facilitator for students.  The chatbot can recommend suitable content tailored to the different learning styles and competency levels of individual students.  It can also provide a curated learning menu for learners who are not strong in their language skills and assess tutor-curated responses to frequently asked concepts or topics.  The chatbot can respond to free-text queries, notify a human agent to follow up on complicated requests, presents the most frequently asked questions by users as "hot topics", allows integration with an instant messaging service with social tagging, and provides a dashboard for learning analytics.

Game Application for Intravenous Administration of Medications (IVAM)

A game for the Intravenous Administration of Medications (IVAM), called “IVAMped”, was developed by staff and students in the Centre.  Specially designed for Registered Nurses who have completed the Nursing Orientation Programme (NOP) and have at least 3 months of exposure in the clinical area post orientation, the game helps to train nurses in identifying the correct medication, selecting the appropriate dosage and mode of administering it, and observing the various precautions when administering it intravenously.  The game won 2^nd  prize in the inaugural SIMS Games Challenge 2019 organised by Serious Games Association (SGA) and SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of Medical Simulation (SIMS) as part of the S3 Conference 2019.

Enabling Immersive Media Applications with AI capabilities

Our team of researchers and developers embarked on a research project that leverages on pedagogy, modelling and interactive content development capabilities to develop techniques for dynamic scenes generation with the addition of voice into the application. It entails a platform that will integrate immersive media and chatbot technologies to capture and facilitate the interchange of data between the physical and virtual environments.

Patient Safety Applications

Our Virtual Reality (VR) developers, working with senior physicians of a hospital, embarked on a project to develop a role-playing simulation game set in a virtual environment to promote and emphasise the concepts of patient safety. The project aims to increase motivation and improve learners’ understanding and retention regarding common patient safety pitfalls. 

Augmented Reality App for Operational Checks on a Small Aircraft’s Environmental Control System

Working with lecturers from the Diploma in Aerospace Engineering in TP, our Augmented Reality (AR) developers built an app that lets learners perform operational checks on the environment control system of a small aircraft, thereby allowing them to practice their skill-sets in a controlled and risk-free environment.

Virtual Reality (VR) Learning Module

Researchers in the Centre developed a VR learning module to equip students in TP’s Diploma in Aerospace Engineering with the knowledge and skills to perform a visual inspection of an aircraft combustion chamber, which is usually difficult to access in real life. The module took top spot in the InnovJAM VR+Pedagogy Competition held on 25 May 2017, beating 36 other teams comprising industry experts, professional training providers and developers from other tertiary institutions. The competition, organised by the Institute for Adult Learning (IAL) as part of iN.LAB’s innovation activities, aimed to showcase innovative solutions to enhance teaching and learning.