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Benjamin Lok is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, and Physiology as key subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within healthcare, education, and technology. Main topics include Empathy and Medical Education, Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Media Influence and Health, Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare, and Social Media in Health Education.

Benjamin Lok has contributed to several recent publications, such as:

  • On the Use of Virtual Reality in Mitigating Hypothetical Bias in Choice Experiments, 2020, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • A Pilot Study Examining the Efficacy of Delivering Colorectal Cancer Screening Messages via Virtual Health Assistants, 2021, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
  • The current state of empathy, compassion and person-centred communication training in healthcare: An umbrella review, 2023, Patient Education and Counseling
  • Assessing the predictive ability of the Suicide Crisis Inventory for near-term suicidal behavior using machine learning approaches, 2020, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
  • Augmented Reality in Nurse Practitioner Education: Using a Triage Scenario to Pilot Technology Usability and Effectiveness, 2021, Clinical Simulation in Nursing

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Benjamin Lok include Alexandre Gomes de Siqueira, Janice L. Krieger, Jacob Stuart, Mohan Zalake, and Melissa J. Vilaro. These collaborative relationships emphasize interdisciplinary and cooperative research efforts.

Benjamin Lok's work is often published in venues such as Frontiers in Virtual Reality, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Psycho-Oncology, the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), and Radiotherapy and Oncology.

Best Publications

  • The use of virtual patients to teach medical students history taking and communication skills

    Amy Stevens;Jonathan Hernandez;Kyle Johnsen;Robert Dickerson

  • Comparison of path visualizations and cognitive measures relative to travel technique in a virtual environment

    C.A. Zanbaka;B.C. Lok;S.V. Babu;A.C. Ulinski

  • The validity of a virtual human experience for interpersonal skills education

    Kyle Johnsen;Andrew Raij;Amy Stevens;D. Scott Lind

  • Understanding empathy training with virtual patients

    Andrea Kleinsmith;Diego Rivera-Gutierrez;Glen Finney;Juan Cendan

  • Comparing Interpersonal Interactions with a Virtual Human to Those with a Real Human

    Andrew B. Raij;Kyle Johnsen;Robert F. Dickerson;Benjamin C. Lok

  • The use of virtual patients in medical school curricula.

    Juan Cendan;Benjamin Lok

  • Experiences in using immersive virtual characters to educate medical communication skills

    K. Johnsen;R. Dickerson;A. Raij;B. Lok

  • Applying virtual reality in medical communication education: current findings and potential teaching and learning benefits of immersive virtual patients

    Benjamin Lok;Richard E. Ferdig;Andrew Raij;Kyle Johnsen

  • Effects of handling real objects and self-avatar fidelity on cognitive task performance and sense of presence in virtual environments

    Benjamin Lok;Samir Naik;Mary Whitton;Frederick P. Brooks

  • Collaboration in tele-immersive environments

    J. Mortensen;V. Vinayagamoorthy;M. Slater;A. Steed

  • Online model reconstruction for interactive virtual environments

    Benjamin Lok

  • Virtual Humans Elicit Skin-Tone Bias Consistent with Real-World Skin-Tone Biases

    Brent Rossen;Kyle Johnsen;Adeline Deladisma;Scott Lind

  • High score!: motivation strategies for user participation in virtual human development

    Shivashankar Halan;Brent Rossen;Juan Cendan;Benjamin Lok

  • Virtual Human + Tangible Interface = Mixed Reality Human An Initial Exploration with a Virtual Breast Exam Patient

    A. Kotranza;B. Lok

  • A crowdsourcing method to develop virtual human conversational agents

    Brent Rossen;Benjamin Lok

  • Effects of travel technique on cognition in virtual environments

    C. Zanbaka;S. Babu;D. Xiao;A. Ulinski

  • Innovative technologies for multicultural education needs

    Richard E Ferdig;Jade Coutts;Joseph C DiPietro;Benjamin Lok

  • Real-time in-situ visual feedback of task performance in mixed environments for learning joint psychomotor-cognitive tasks

    Aaron Kotranza;D. Scott Lind;Carla M. Pugh;Benjamin Lok

  • Interactive virtual characters for training including medical diagnosis training

    Benjamin Lok;Scott Lind

  • Human-Centered Distributed Conversational Modeling: Efficient Modeling of Robust Virtual Human Conversations

    Brent Rossen;Scott Lind;Benjamin Lok

  • A Mixed Reality Approach for Merging Abstract and Concrete Knowledge

    J. Quarles;S. Lampotang;I. Fischler;P. Fishwick

  • The Role for Virtual Patients in the Future of Medical Education.

    Casey B. White;Adam Wendling;Samsun Lampotang;David Lizdas

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Fishwick
Paul A. Fishwick The University of Texas at Dallas
Mary C. Whitton
Mary C. Whitton University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frederick P. Brooks
Frederick P. Brooks University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Igor Galynker
Igor Galynker Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Larry F. Hodges
Larry F. Hodges Clemson University
Gudrun Klinker
Gudrun Klinker Technical University of Munich
Anthony Steed
Anthony Steed University College London
Greg Welch
Greg Welch University of Central Florida
Michael Marsiske
Michael Marsiske University of Florida

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