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InterReality Technologies
Welcome to InterReality Technologies.
Our team specialises in the development of tech-enhanced IT applications designed for teaching and learning across all subject disciplines and faculties. We actively collaborate with faculties in the research in the science of learning to establish ground-breaking design and development of pedagogies and its applications using established and best practices in education.
This technology brings about the combination of real and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects.
Such simulated experience can be created to resemble a real and existing scenario or completely different from the real world.
Our Vision
NUS IT strives to be a premier and trusted IT partner of Insitutute of Higher Education industry in Singapore.
We advocate for a close and collaborative relationship with the faculty and are also actively involved in the research as co-investigators of research grants awarded for the science of teaching and learning in establishing ground-breaking pedagogies and best education practices.
Faculty: Provost Office (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine)
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Faculty: Department of Geography, FASS
Faculty: Department of Chemistry, FoS
Faculty: Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, FoE
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Faculty: Department of Chemistry, FoS
Faculty: Department of Anasthesia, YLLSOM
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Faculty: Department of Pharmacy, FoS
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Faculty: Department of Psychological Medicine, YLLSOM
Faculty: Department of Civil Engineering, FoE
Asia Pacific - Silver Awards
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality - Silver Awards
Engineering Drive 4,
NUS Information Technology,
Singapore 117584
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: A/P Goh Yang Miang
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Funding: Workforce Development Applied Research Fund (WDARF)
Development: In-house
Year: 2021
This is a simulation that emulates an authentic learning environment using a model building in the construction industry that encapsulates three factors: Task authenticity, Knowledge co-construction, and Expert modelling. It aims to achieve both surface learning (i.e. knowledge retention) and deep learning (application, re-contextualisation, and innovation) of the subject.
The development will yield a toolkit for training the protocol of designing, fitting and used for professional upskilling in lifelong learning in NUS.
https://cde.nus.edu.sg/dbe/cpfm/sarru/projects/design/
Engine: Unity 3D
P.I: Associate Professor Malcolm Mahadevan
Faculty: Provost Office (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine)
Funding: LIF-T
Development: Outsourced
Year: 2022
As emergency physicians, cardiac arrests and suicide attempts come to us very frequently. The resuscitation is often futile and could have different outcomes had the patient received early interventions.
As educators and doctors, we felt the immense call to educate our public layperson. We knew that it was not just about teaching textbook knowledge, we had to work on their confidence and empathy as responders. By utilizing an immersive VR setting in a local scene, we developed these scenarios from scratch that would allow them to be the main avatar experiencing the emergency first-hand. The scenario can be played multiple times, and is complemented with educational summary in a dedicated training session helmed by doctors in a VR simulation lab. By running these sessions frequently, as seen in our study, we hope to reach as many and increase their confidence and empathy should they encounter the real life situation.
Engine: Unity 3D
P.I: Dr. Fung Fun Man
Faculty: Department of Chemistry, FOS
Funding: Nil
Development: In-house
Year: 2021
ChemPOV is a digital turn-based game designed to invoke higher order thinking skills and serve as an auxiliary teaching tool for students who might be struggling with organic chemistry. ChemPOV emphasizes the importance of analysing chemical mechanisms instead of memorising facts. Students have received the gamification of organic chemistry positively in a previous physical board game, becoming more confident in their understanding of the subject. Instructors also noted that through the use of such games, students have increased discussions.
The experience has improved the overall learning experience of the students and students' engagement, key factors in ensuring that the students are more equipped to achieve better outcomes for the subject. The main mechanic of this digital board game involves completing the multistep organic synthesis on each player's cards. As the players progress through the game, they can obtain the chemical card that they need to complete the organic synthesis.
This game can be played by up to four players, and each player competes with the others to see who can complete their organic chemistry synthesis scheme first through strategic and tactical planning, as well as answering organic chemistry-related questions. Players can also compete with one another through the leader board upon completing their synthesis scheme.
1. Revolutionising Chemistry Education with a Fun, Interactive, and Engaging Multiplayer Digital Game, Thursday, October 28th 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM EDT, Poster Session, Yulin Lam, Jia Yi Han, Fun Man Fung, John Yap
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sangit Sasidhar
Faculty: Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering, FoE
Funding: Learning Innovation Fund - Technology
Development: In-house
Year: 2020
POVER is designed and developed as a Virtual Experience that augments the learning of power engineering and by providing a challenging environment tuned to their expertise, incorporate scaffolding of the learning content at different levels for students to learn, repeat and reiterate these concepts and provide an outlet for students taking higher level power modules to practice and reiterate their pre-requisite content.
1. Inspire Tech Awards - Best Use of Emerging Technologies (Southeast Asia) 2021
Engine: Unreal 3D
P.I: A/P Lau Siew Tiang Lydia
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Funding: MOE Tertiary Research Fund
Development: In-house
Year: 2021
Physical simulation labs for nursing studies in NUS are highly sought after and often expensive to operate in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Acquisition of clinical skills requires repeated and deliberate practice regardless of training modality.
By transforming such clinical skills training into 3D immersive VR, students have a task with a well-refined goal and timely feedback that allows ample opportunities for repetition and refinement of performance. Students can do their practices re-iteratively at their own pace in the comfort of their home space, without the usual constraints of time or physical space, especially during challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This will reduce their need to revisit the physical simulation labs for practice, especially before their final face-to-face assessment. The development will bring about the digitization, automation of nursing clinical practice, and the empowerment of self-directed learning to nursing students in NUS. It will dramatically change the paradigm of traditional modes of learning in lab-based simulations, and reduce the substantial costs of operating physical labs and manpower availability in the faculty. The faculty aims to make such learning opportunities readily available where students can benefit from increased efficacy and confidence in clinical practice.
1. Transformation of Traditional Lab-Based Nursing Clinical Practices into Training in Immersive VR, Wednesday, October 27th 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM EDT, Poster Session, Lau Siew Tiang Lydia, John Yap
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: A/P Goh Yang Miang
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Funding: MOE Tertiary Research Fund
Development: In-house
Year: 2020
SafeSim Risk is 3D virtual simulation of an authentic construction site designed to train players to identify hazards and good practices on a virtual construction site.
Players will understand the likelihood and severity of identified hazards based on their observation in the simulated environment.
https://www.sde.nus.edu.sg/bdg/cpfm/sarru/projects/risk/
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: A/P Goh Yang Miang
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Funding: Learning Innovation Fund - Technology
Development: Outsourced
Year: 2019
SafeSim Investigation is developed with the objective of using a digital simulation game to teach and train players to conduct a proper industrial incident investigation.
Players experience and learn by collecting evidences pertaining to an industrial accident and recommending corrective actions based on the evidence collected in a simulated environment.
https://www.sde.nus.edu.sg/bdg/cpfm/sarru/projects/investigation/
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: A/P Goh Yang Miang
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Funding: Learning Innovation Fund - Technology
Development: In-house
Year: 2019
VARS is an innovative mobile application which integrated virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to be a teaching pedagogy to improve the learning effectiveness of students in a structural systems module.
It allows users to identify different structure aspects in a life-like setting to explain and teach concepts in a simulated environment.
https://www.sde.nus.edu.sg/bdg/cpfm/sarru/projects/vars/
Publications:
• Hu, X., Safiena, S., Goh, Y.M. et al. Using virtual reality (VR) to improve structural systems knowledge of project and facilities management students. Education Tech Research Dev (2023).
• 2021 Hu, Goh, Lin Educational Impact of An Augmented Reality (AR) Application for Teaching Structural Systems to Non-Engineering Students
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shefaly Shorley
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Funding: MOE Tertiary Research Fund
Development: Outsourced
Year: 2019
VCAAI is an artificial intelligence application system visualised in 3D that displays non-verbal cues to train nursing professional in natural communication with virtual patients and healthcare counterparts.
It also empowers undergraduates with various learning outcomes such as self-efficacy and attitude towards learning communication skills without the dependency of using standardised patients facilitated by humans.
https://www.jmir.org/2019/10/e14658/
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Shawn Goh
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Funding: Learning Innovation Fund - Technology
Development: In-house
Year: 2019
The AUGMent is a mobile application where augmented reality (AR) is used as an innovative teaching pedagogy for nursing students to understand mental health symptoms.
The app allows students to perceive and empathize how a patient might feel while they are experiencing the auditory and visual hallucinations via AR, aiming thus improving their empathetic response towards people with mental health conditions.
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/nursing/nus-nursing-apps/
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Fung Fun Man
Faculty: Department of Chemistry, FoS
Funding: USPC Grant
Development: In-house
Year: 2019
NuPOV is a mobile application that aims to address limitations in 2D/3D molecular translations in learning organic chemistry.
By allowing users to view chemistry concepts via AR and to interact with them by using interactive controls, users will be empowered to learn and understand at a deeper level through an individualized and self-directed learning experience.
NUS Annual Digital Education Award (NUS ADEA) 2020
Website:
https://chemistry.nus.edu.sg/education/undergraduate-nupov/
Publication:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00387
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Pan Ling Te Terry
Faculty: Department of Anasthesia, YLLSOM
Funding: Learning Innovation Fund - Technology
Development: In-house
Year: 2019
Doctor Morpheus is developed as a "tutor" virtual conversational agent to help medical students re-activate their prior anatomy knowledge through a targeted quiz approach and also share important concepts in airway management via a guided conversational approach through a clinical scenario.
The conversational agent should also be able to provide adequate appraisal of the student’s performance and provide feedback for continuous improvement. It is also aimed at helping faculty reach out to as many students as possible to provide supported learning and decision making via the quizzes.
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: A/P Goh Yang Miang
Faculty: Department of Building, SDE
Funding: MOE Tier 1
Development: In-house
Year: 2018
SafeSim Hazards is a construction risk assessment game that empowered participants to learn and improve skills in construction safety risk management. It allows the players to identify the potential hazards or good practices in different parts of construction site as a group or individuals in a simulation-based learning.
https://www.sde.nus.edu.sg/bdg/cpfm/sarru/projects/hazards/ https://www.safesimulator.com/
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Liaw Sok Ying
Faculty: Alice Lee Centre for Nursing, YLLSOM
Funding: Singapore Millennium Foundation (Temasek Innovates)
Development: Outsourced
Year: 2018
C.R.E.A.T.I.V.E, is a 3D multiplayer virtual simulation that is designed to improve interprofessional communication skills in a collaborative healthcare setting to healthcare professionals namely: nursing students, medical doctors, pharmacists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and medical social worker.
https://xuanqingooi.wixsite.com/website-1/product
https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/nursing/2021/08/software-to-train-soft-skills/
Publication:
1. Liaw, S. Y., Carpio, G. A. C., Lau, Y., Tan, S.C., Lim, W.S., Goh, P. S. (2018). Multiuser virtual worlds in healthcare education: A systematic review. Nurse Education Today, 65, 136–149. (5 Year JIF: 4.304)
2. Liaw, S. Y., Soh, S. L. H., Tan, K. K., Wu, L. T., Yap, J., Chow, Y. L., . . . Wong, L. F. (2019). Design and evaluation of a 3D virtual environment for collaborative learning in interprofessional team care delivery. Nurse Education Today, 81, 64–71. (5 Year JIF: 4.304)
3. Liaw, S.Y., Wu, L.T., Wong, L.F., Soh, S.L.H., Chow, Y.L., Ringsted, C., Lau, T.C., & Lim, W.S. (2019). “Getting everyone on the same page”: Interprofessional team training to develop shared mental models on interprofessional rounds. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 34(12), 2912-2917. (5 Year JIF: 6.07)
4. Liaw, S.Y., Tan, K.K., Wu, L.T., Tan, S.C., Choo, H., Yap, J., Lim, S.M., Wong, L.F. & Ignacio, J. (2019). Finding the right blend for technologically-enhanced learning environments: A randomized study of the effect of instructional sequences on interprofessional learning. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(5), e12537. (5 Year JIF: 7.255)
5. Liaw, S.Y., Wu, L.T., Soh, S.L.H., Ringsted, C., Lau, T.C., & Lim, W.S. (2020). Virtual reality simulation in interprofessional round training for health care students: A qualitative evaluation study. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 45, 42-26. (5 Year JIF: 3.251)
6. Liaw, S.Y., Choo, T.W., Wu., L.T., Lim, W.S., Choo, H., Lim, S.M., Ringsted, C., Wong, L.F., Ooi, S.L., & Lau, T.C. (2021). “Wow, woo, win"- Healthcare students' and facilitators' experiences of interprofessional simulation in three-dimensional virtual world: A qualitative evaluation study. Nurse Education Today, 105, 105018. (5 Year JIF: 4.304)
7. Liaw, S.Y., Ooi, S.W., Rusli, K.D.B., Lau, T.C., Tam, W.W., & Chua, W.L. (2020). Nurse-physician communication team training in virtual reality versus live simulations: Randomized controlled trial on team communication and teamwork attitudes. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22(4), e17279. (5 Year JIF: 7.255)
8. Liaw, S.Y., Sutini., Chua, W.L., Levett-Jones, T., Ashokka B., Pan T.L., Lau, S.T. & Ignacio, J. (2023). Desktop virtual reality versus face-to-face simulation for team-training on stress levels and performance in clinical deterioration: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 38(1), 67-73. (5 Year JIF: 6.07)
9. Liaw, S.Y., Ooi, S.L., Mildon, R., Ang, E.N.K., Lau, T.C., & Chua, W.L. (2022). Translation of an evidence-based virtual reality simulation-based interprofessional education into health education curriculums: An implementation science method. Nurse Education Today, 110. (5 Year JIF: 4.304)
10. Chua, W.L., Ooi, S.L., Chan G.W.H., Lau, T.C., & Liaw, S.Y. (2022). The effect of a sepsis interprofessional education using virtual telesimulation on sepsis team care in clinical practice: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(4), e35058 (5 Year JIF: 7.255)
Engine: Unity 3D
Principal Investigator: Dr. Kevin Yap, Yap Kai Zhen
Faculty: Department of Pharmacy, FoS
Funding: Learning Innovation Fund - Technology
Development: Outsourced
Year: 2017
RetroZfect is a 3D game designed specifically to train the different aspects of the pharmaceutical professional skills (i.e. patient counselling, patient history-taking, pharmacotherapy of drugs, extraction and application of drug information from monographs, and compounding of extemporaneous preparations) for pharmacy students.
• Mrs Tan Shook Fong – Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore (PSS) Innovation and Scientific Research Award 2017
Reimagine Education Award 2017/2018
• Life Science and Medicine - Gold Awards
• Asia Pacific - Silver Awards
• Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality - Silver Awards
Engine: Unity 3D
P.I: Associate Professor Feng Chen-Chieh
Faculty: Department of Geography
Funding: LIF-T
Development: Outsourced
Year: 2021
The project aims to transform learning experiences through the integral use of immersive virtual reality (VR) that affords visual and audio feedback and a mechanical device (i.e., a shaker board) that affords additional physical feedback. Earthquakes, a challenging topic to teach with existing classroom technologies because it is dynamic with long geological time frames and is often prohibitive to run fieldwork, is the subject matter for this project.
Termed four-dimensional VR (4DVR), the VR-based learning environment developed in this project demonstrates the effectiveness of these technologies in teaching and learning by bringing the field to the classroom.