TY - JOUR
T1 - Restorative Virtual Environment Design for Augmenting Nursing Home Rehabilitation
AU - Bruun-Pedersen, Jon Ram
AU - Serafin, Stefania
AU - Kofoed, Lise
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - With increasing age, muscle strength decreases excessively rapidly if physical activity is not maintained. However, physical activity is increasingly difficult with age, due to balance, strength or coordination difficulties, arthritis, etc. Moreover, many nursing home residents become unable to experience natural surroundings. Augmenting a conventional biking exercise with a recreational virtual environment (RVE) has shown to serve as an intrinsic motivation contributor to exercise for nursing home residents. RVEs might be able to provide some of the health benefits that regular nature experiences do, but more studies on content and design of proper custom designs for RVEs is necessary. This paper reviews the background for RVE design, describes four custom RVE designs for recreational VE exploration and presents user preferences among nursing home users concerning content and other pivotal design considerations.
AB - With increasing age, muscle strength decreases excessively rapidly if physical activity is not maintained. However, physical activity is increasingly difficult with age, due to balance, strength or coordination difficulties, arthritis, etc. Moreover, many nursing home residents become unable to experience natural surroundings. Augmenting a conventional biking exercise with a recreational virtual environment (RVE) has shown to serve as an intrinsic motivation contributor to exercise for nursing home residents. RVEs might be able to provide some of the health benefits that regular nature experiences do, but more studies on content and design of proper custom designs for RVEs is necessary. This paper reviews the background for RVE design, describes four custom RVE designs for recreational VE exploration and presents user preferences among nursing home users concerning content and other pivotal design considerations.
KW - Older Adults
KW - Multimodal Interaction
KW - Virtual environments
KW - Design Framework
KW - Recreation
KW - Rehabilitation
KW - Virtual Reality
KW - Exercise Motivation
UR - https://journals.tdl.org/jvwr/index.php/jvwr/article/view/7224
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1941-8477
VL - 9
JO - Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
JF - Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
IS - 3
ER -