My goal this summer was to improve upon the first iteration of the Virtual Pediatric Patient System (VPPS). The VPPS is a student nurse training program that Clemson students built in the summer of 2011. The first iteration consists of a scenario on a 2D screen: a mother and a child in a pediatric room are visible on the screen. Student nurses can interact with the digital characters using a microphone and headset. The simulation did not appear realistic enough to all of the faculty nurses in the first usability study.

This is where I came in. Specifically, my goals were to create a new pediatric room, create new character models, and create more realistic animations for the characters.

On the way to completing the second iteration, I would also:

• Learn to use Unity
• Learn modeling in Blender
• Learn animation in Blender