THE TECHNOLOGY OF VIRTUAL REALITY SUPPORTING THE EDUCATION IN THE DISTANCE: THE FORMATION OF WORKERS OF THE SYSTEM OF HEALTH OF BRAZIL

摘要

The present article, destines to present it the research developed in the Program of Civil Engineering Laboratory of Computational Methods in Engineering of the Federal University of Rio De Janeiro in partnership with the Program of Education in the distance of the National School of Public Health Sergio Arouca, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, approaching the integration between Education in the distance and technology of Virtual Reality as reply to the demands of Permanent Education in Health that demand the development of motor abilities, using as application field the formation of the professionals of the Food and Nutritional Surveillance (SISVAN),for being the base of the most important public politics of Brazil that is the combat to the hunger and the lack of nutrients of the Brazilian population. In the field of the Public Health, only one application was found in literature, disclosing the existing gap in this area in that it concerns to the development of applications in Virtual Reality.