{"id":3126,"date":"2022-01-18T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/eda-news\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T12:12:20","slug":"phd-candidate-hiba-jawharieh-trials-vr-study-with-avante-care-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2022\/01\/18\/phd-candidate-hiba-jawharieh-trials-vr-study-with-avante-care-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD candidate Hiba Jawharieh trials VR study with Avante Care Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

PhD Electronic Engineering<\/a> student Hiba Jawharieh has trialled a Virtual Reality (VR) study with Avante Care Homes, whereby residents had the opportunity to virtually visit different locations including Vienna, Disneyland Florida, a cathedral and the beach.<\/p>\n

The research is part of Hiba’s PhD research with Supervisor Dr Jim Ang<\/a>, in collaboration with PhD Electronic Engineering student Ethan Cheung, who works on developing the application Hiba used in her sessions with the residents.<\/p>\n

The study’s main objective is to identify opportunities and challenges of deploying VR to support people with mild, mild to moderate and moderate dementia in a care home setting.<\/p>\n

The study aims to understand how caregivers co-create VR experience with people with Dementia in different care scenarios, to carry out a preliminary assessment on the impact of VR on the wellbeing and cognitive processes of people with Dementia, and to investigate how family members can co-experience VR remotely and explore the challenges and possibilities of designing such a technology.<\/p>\n

Hiba says: ‘so far, I’ve done 12 face-to-face and 4 remote sessions with 6 residents and the results have been promising. The remote sessions are conducted with a loved one who is situated at his\/her home which makes this work special’.<\/p>\n

Further information about one of the trial sessions is available on Avante’s website, here:
\nhttps:\/\/www.nationalcareforum.org.uk\/members-news\/residents-invited-to-take-part-in-research-for-virtual-reality-studies-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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An example of one of Hiba’s VR experiences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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