Using Immersive Technologies to support healthcare of elderly and fragile people
Published in Berlin Universities Publishing, 2024
Vona, F., Ashrafi, N., Ceranic, M. & Voigt-Antons, J.-N.
Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have significant potential in the therapeutic field. They can support older people, individuals with cognitive disorders and other types of conditions such as fluency disorders or phobias. This article presents three examples of VR applications with three different objectives and end users. The first example is a VR system for assessing mild cognitive impairment in older people. The second example presents a VR system used to train people with fluency disorders. The third example presents a VR system for exposure therapy for patients with canine phobia.
Recommended citation: Vona, F., Ashrafi, N., Ceranic, M. & Voigt-Antons, J.-N. (2024). Using Immersive Technologies to support healthcare of elderly and fragile people. In Herrmann, W. J., Leser, U., Möller, S., Voigt-Antons, J.-N., Gellert, P. (Eds.) (2024). The digitalization of healthcare for older adults. - Digitalization as an answer to substantial challenges in our healthcare system. Berlin: Berlin Universities Publishing. https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-20424