Using a Wearable-Based Animated Patient Avatar to Improve Patients’ Perception of Vital Signs: Multicenter Computer-Based Study

Johannes Köhler   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Max Ebensperger   ^{2 *} ;   Cynthia A Hunn   ¹ , MD ;   Arend Rahrisch   ¹ , MD ;   Achilles Delis   ³ , MD ;   Florian Piekarski   ³ , MD ;   Gregor Massoth   ³ , MD ;   Florian J Raimann   ⁴ , MD ;   Kai Zacharowski   ⁴ , MD ;   David W Tscholl   ¹ , MD ;   Tadzio Raoul Roche   ¹ , MD

¹ Institute for Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

² Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, TUM School of Medicine and Health, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

³ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany

⁴ Goethe University Frankfurt, University Hospital, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Frankfurt, Germany

*these authors contributed equally