Virtual Reality Training- Q&A with Sebastian Scheler

An Interview with Sebastian Scheler

CEO and Lead Psychologist– Innerspace

Topic: VR Training.

Sebastian Scheler talked to us about the hot topic VR (Virtual Reality) and how it helps Life Science. He will be speaking at the two-day summit ‘Emerging technologies in Pharma’, held in Copenhagen during November, 20th and 21st.

Mr. Scheler will present a VR Case Study based on his experience at Innerspace, the company he is leading, which offers a safe environment for repeatable, focused virtual experiences that create real, goal driven work experience.

Through his case study, Sebastian will give insights on aspects like trainings-Transfer Problem and its effects on Human Errors, DeepTraining Approach: Psychology and VR-Technology and Innerspace DeepTraining: Evaluation, Reporting and Benefits.

We asked him several pre-speech questions which you can find below.

1. What is immersive technology?

 Innerspace uses immersive virtual reality to create a revolutionary training system, in which aseptic production employees learn to master the key moments of their work. Our Innerspace DeepTraining modules support the development and anchoring of cleanroom skillset and mindset in operators. In each module, principles of correct cleanroom behaviour are trained, backgrounds understood. In the safe virtual environment, operators can make mistakes and receive immediate feedback in the very moment they occur. In Virtual Reality, they experience all kind or worst-case scenarios, which cannot be simulated and trained in reality (in the physical cleanroom environment). Thus, operators form a deep awareness and understanding of their work, at the same time their motivation for correct cleanroom behaviour is strengthened.

# As learning psychologists we know, that in order to achieve the maximum learning transfer effect, we need training conditions that are as close to reality as possible. Immersive Virtual Reality is the ideal technology that allows us to create those realistic training conditions. The immersiveness of Virtual Reality technology is based on two important factors: place illusion (sense of "being there") and plausibility illusion (the acceptance that the scenario being depicted is actually occurring). Both factors contribute to the effect of presence, which is the basis for experience-based training. However, presence is not given automatically in every VR experience – it strongly depends on certain factors. At Innerspace we have developed a systematic approach to evaluate if and how training content can be translated into a Virtual Reality-based DeepTraining.

2. Can you give one case study of a virtual reality success story in Life Science?

 First Cooperation between a big pharmaceutical company and Innerspace started in 2018 with a first successfully implemented DeepTraining project at one of the customer's sites that combined up-to-date scientific research in learning psychology with cutting-edge Virtual Reality technology. Since its launch in January 2019, operators there train and gain real work experience through the focused simulation of production steps in a three-dimensional mimicry of their original filling line. In this way, classroom and haptic training will soon be combined with the virtual DeepTraining to train operators significantly more effective and safely.

Innerspace works closely together with its customers in the development of upcoming DeepTraining modules. Those DeepTraining Modules form a Corporate Training Standard, which is applicable to all of the Corporate's aseptic sites.

 3. How can Life Science gain from using VR, what can they apply it to?

 The goal of our DeepTraining approach is to train operators for the highest product quality. We believe in the following equation: Less experienced operators make more human errors and put product and patient safety at risk. More experienced operators make less human errors and therefore reduce the risk of product and patient safety. This is how we make our contribution to the patient's well-being. And this is how we earn the trust and reputation of our partners and clients.

Furthermore, the Human Error Analysis approach of our DeepTraining provides our customers with a deep, more differentiated understanding about why human errors occur in aseptic manufacturing. Each module addresses the sources of those Human Errors, which are located on skillset and mindset-levels of the operator. This profound understanding of the "Why Human Errors occur" allows companies to think and implement training in a completely new and different way. The implementation of the DeepTraining system provides all our customers with a reliable training method to transfer quality culture into practice and into action by each and every operator.

 4. What is the most significant innovation in Immersive technology coming within the next year?

We think that the innovation in experience-based learning comes from the approach, how we design trainings (principal-based training design plus our Training Management System (TMS)) rather than from Virtual Reality technology.

Sebastian Scheler will be speaking about this hot topic at the two-day summit ‘Emerging Technologies in Pharma’, which is being held in Copenhagen on November 20th and 21st.

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