VOA常速英语:AR技术助力助产士接生

Midwives bring new life into the world, and these midwifery students at London’s Middlesex University are learning a new way to do this. So this is when you’d speak to your mom and you would be telling her to push, push, push. She’s got contraction. Sarah Chitongo is the educator in this high-tech classroom. Her students use goggles equipped with augmented reality or AR, so trainee midwives can experience a simulated birth. It allows you to see a visual picture of the actual anatomy itself, which is raised out of the normal body and you can step in, walk around, and have an internal view. AR is a digital overlay atop something real. In this case, a pregnancy atop a mannequin. This actually allows you to engage that type of learner that is more visual rather than paper-based, and it just gives them a lot more experience and hands-on to actually move around and interact with their surroundings.

The training helps prepare students for all they could go wrong during childbirth, including handling complications because of genetic predispositions. You know, black, Asian women have got more cardiovascular risks, diabetes. However, that does not give an excuse for somebody to die because of that, and those are some of the solutions which this technology can provide in trying to address a very vulnerable population. Educators say students’ exposure to AR makes them more comfortable using it in the classroom. It’s about giving the students the ability to engage with tools and things they have been used to and accustomed to, but within a learning space, a serious learning space, so that they get a better understanding of it. Chitongo says it took her nearly a decade of midwifing before she even saw a breech delivery. She says with AR technology in the classroom, students can better manage what happens in the real world and possibly even save a life.
Arash Arabasadi, VOA News, Washington.