I.De.Ho Innovation and design for hospitals

The I.De.Ho project aims at improving the quality of treatment of rehabilitation patients by proposing innovative design solutions based on the creation of , i.e. physical and virtual simulations of different environmental situations. The I.De.Ho. project is based on the modern rehabilitation therapies that place great emphasis on the patient?s collaboration in the rehabilitation process, placing a significant role to the patient?s psychological condition. Virtual Reality (VR) has a high potential to contribute to this approach, by providing visual information that ?motivates? patients and provides interesting feedbacks on the results of the motorial effort. However VR applications require high infrastructure costs. This project proposes a different approach: instead of using simulation in immersive virtual realities, ordinary hospital buildings can be used in a very flexible way, by using textiles to create temporary environments, while low-definition virtual reality (e.g. projections on textiles) can provide information, motivation and feedback for patients? therapeutic activities. mixed realities