Feasibility of online psychophysical practice for a department of Certified Orthoptics.

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To evaluate the feasibility of an online practice web application and groupware platforms for medical related fields, a small web application for psychophysical experiments was developed using Hypertext Markup Language version 5 features. The application was then used in a certified orthoptics class on the Microsoft Teams 365 meeting platform for two years. The two classes in each year were divided into small groups of either twelve or six students, which were then given areal matching tasks. The students were instructed to adjust the size of the comparison stimuli by moving a web application slider to make the area equal to the standard stimuli, after which they plotted the data on a Google Spreadsheet. After each practice, questionnaires were completed by the students using Google Forms. Over the two years, 85 students completed the questionnaires. While the students managed to achieve the practice goals, they negatively scored the user friendliness of the spreadsheet, especially when there were smaller group sizes. These results suggested that it was not the web application itself but the communication tools employed in the online practice and the group sizes that had affected the student experiences.