TETRA Immersive Mental Health
With the Immersive Mental health project, we are exploring how virtual reality combined with wearables can be used to help clients, patients and healthcare professionals relax.
The Immersive Mental Health project is carried out by researchers of the Centre of Expertise Care and Well-being (research group Mobilab & Care and the research group People and Well-being) with the support of the Flemish Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Tetra program). During the project we work closely together with healthcare organizations and technology companies. Together we want to improve the mental well-being of care recipients and caregivers by using immersive technologies, such as virtual reality, and wearable technologies (wearables) to measure heart rate, breathing and other biofeedback during their experience.
Immersive technology includes any form of technology that extends reality or creates a new reality, e.g. virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), 360° video, mixed reality (MR) and immersive room or cave VR. These technologies provide a sense of immersion in an artificial environment that replaces or adapts the real environment, so that users become immersed in the newly created environment. In this project we focus on VR and 360° video experienced through VR goggles (headset).
The Immersive Mental Health project is carried out by researchers of the Centre of Expertise Care and Well-being (research group Mobilab & Care and the research group People and Well-being) with the support of the Flemish Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Tetra program). During the project we work closely together with healthcare organizations and technology companies. Together we want to improve the mental well-being of care recipients and caregivers by using immersive technologies, such as virtual reality, and wearable technologies (wearables) to measure heart rate, breathing and other biofeedback during their experience.
Immersive technology includes any form of technology that extends reality or creates a new reality, e.g. virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), 360° video, mixed reality (MR) and immersive room or cave VR. These technologies provide a sense of immersion in an artificial environment that replaces or adapts the real environment, so that users become immersed in the newly created environment. In this project we focus on VR and 360° video experienced through VR goggles (headset).
Promotor
Sofie Verhaegen
Onderzoeker
Bert Bonroy,Glen Debard,Romy Sels,Sylvie Bernaerts,Marlon van Loo
01/09/2022 - 31/08/2024
