Surgical Birth Simulation Program

Inspiration

As a team of girls, we are putting in our innovative ideas and tech skills to better the future of women's health. A large and pivotal moment in a woman's life is giving birth— it has a lot of emotional and physical value. Given this importance, it is vital to ensure that we are doing everything we can as a community to increase the safeness of childbirth and give all women an experience they look back to with nothing but love.

What it does

The SBS Program is a software built to be compatible with VR headsets to practice C-sections. Students use the VR headset along with hand controllers to enter the simulation program. They are provided with various AI-generated patient portfolios (patients with different conditions/complications/health & pregnancy histories, etc.) so they can adapt to different situations. Using the surgical tools provided, they carry out the C-section and receive feedback afterward.

How we built it

We used A-Frame, a 3D modeling library in our HTML code to create a model of what the student may see in the VR experience. During real development, we will incorporate Unity, Javascript, CSS, and HTML for a fully developed model.

Challenges we ran into

As programmers, it was challenging to design the UI/UX. We experimented with multiple 3D design platforms including Unity, A-Frame, Three.js, Mozilla, and others. In the end, we figured out how to use A-Frame using HTML coding and created a simple representation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of the fact that we ventured into unknown territories with the UI model and tried our best to explore different softwares and create the model we best could.

What we learned

We learned how to use Unity though it didn't make it to the final model, and learned how to write HTML code incorporating A-Frame to design 3D models.

What's next for Surgical Birth Simulation Program

In the future, we plan on incorporating more AI so the student can experience consultations with the patient from pregnancy to post-delivery. This will allow students to understand what it means to diagnose patients, give them prescriptions, and operate on them knowing pre-existing conditions and health factors— providing them with the whole end-to-end journey. We also plan to add additional surgeries to practice including brain surgery, heart surgery, and more.

Built With

• a-frame
• html
• replit