{"id":1502,"date":"2019-09-03T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2019-09-03T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:37:33","slug":"reuters-tv-reports-on-discovery-that-vr-can-improve-quality-of-life-for-people-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/09\/03\/reuters-tv-reports-on-discovery-that-vr-can-improve-quality-of-life-for-people-with-dementia\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters TV reports on discovery that VR can improve quality of life for people with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The study, conducted by researchers including Dr Jim Ang and colleagues from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA), took place at mental healthcare provider St Andrew\u2019s Healthcare in Northampton.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published\u00a0<em>in the paper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/static.kent.ac.uk\/media\/news\/2019\/05\/Bring-the-Outside-In.pdf\">Bring the Outside In: Providing Accessible Experiences Through VR for People with Dementia in Locked Psychiatric Hospitals<\/a>,\u00a0which was presented at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chi2019.acm.org\/\">ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/a>\u00a0in Glasgow\u00a0during\u00a0May. They have also been published in\u00a0<strong>Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To view\u00a0<strong><em>VR gives dementia patients \u201cmagical\u201d trip to their past <\/em><\/strong>click <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.reuters.com\/video\/2019\/08\/27\/vr-gives-dementia-patients-magical-trip?videoId=592675350&amp;videoChannel=6\">here<\/a>.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For further information see our <strong>press release<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/science\/22226\/vr-can-improve-quality-of-life-for-people-with-dementia\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study, conducted by researchers including Dr Jim Ang and colleagues from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (EDA), took place at mental healthcare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2019\/09\/03\/reuters-tv-reports-on-discovery-that-vr-can-improve-quality-of-life-for-people-with-dementia\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39150,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[197045,197040,197057,124,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}