Enhancing the Predictive Value of Formative Evaluation in Extended Reality Adoption: Addressing the Experience Gap

Enhancing the Predictive Value of Formative Evaluation in Extended Reality Adoption: Addressing the Experience Gap

Formative evaluation is widely used in implementation science to anticipate barriers and facilitators prior to the deployment of health technologies, typically relying on stakeholders’ reported beliefs collected before real-world exposure. This approach has proven informative for many digital health tools; however, its application to immersive and embodied technologies such as extended reality (XR) warrants closer scrutiny.

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Traditional formative evaluations may not accurately predict healthcare professionals’ acceptance of extended reality (XR) technologies because key factors such as comfort, usability, safety, and workflow impact often become clear only after hands-on experience.



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