The Road to Recovery: Re-energising people 65+ in care homes, deconditioned through Covid isolation, using the medium of virtual reality and social walks.

康复之路：利用虚拟现实和社交散步的媒介，让疗养院中因新冠病毒隔离而身体状况不佳的 65 人重新焕发活力。

• 批准号: 10004423
• 金额: $ 29.62万
• 依托单位: ROVR SYSTEMS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004423
• 关键词: Road; Recovery; Re; energising; people

This project provides social VR (Virtual Reality) walks for people 65+ in Care Homes whose choices and opportunities are often limited. The winter months for people 65+ leads to deconditioning in muscle strength and feelings of poor wellbeing through decreased exercise and social contact. These effects have been exacerbated by COVID19 isolation and shielding, extending last winter through summer and winter 2020\. Care Home and Social Service carers are too few and the need too large.There is no possibility of social VR walks with current VR hardware which is limited to room-scale and / or attended immersion. To allow safe, unlimited movement in VR, Wizdish has patented a VR treadmill (the ROVR) clinically assessed to use similar effort and muscle groups to walking. This treadmill teamed with a wireless VR headset comprises a 'ROVR System'. Social VR walks will be created of real-places, familiar and unfamiliar such as museums, art galleries and local tourist destinations. Care Homes, in Cornwall and Oxfordshire will have ROVR Systems installed allowing local pairs within a residence to explore places together. During the project these Care Homes will be linked, enabling geographically distanced groups to explore and socialise together.Social VR walks provide opportunity and choice for people with shared interests to meet, socialise and explore real-places captured as VR models, providing memories of shared experiences and feelings of connectedness. Care Home pilot groups will verify Wizdish ROVR VR treadmills paired with wireless VR headsets and social VR content is a complete self-motivated social and physical exercise solution.The project will initially focus on people able to stand unaided or with a stick. The project seeks to overcome technology barriers and discover psychological drivers for self-motivated and self-actuated social VR walks.This project will measure clinical changes in physical and mental health and self-reported wellbeing and connectedness. Independent clinical assessments and evaluation will be carried out by the University of Oxford and the EPIC Project at the University of Plymouth. The project provides pilot data to gain institutional funding support for Wizdish to offer ROVR Systems as a low cost monthly subscription model (akin mobile phones).

该项目为养老院中65岁以上的人提供社交VR（虚拟现实）行走，他们的选择和机会往往有限。对于65岁以上的人来说，冬季的几个月会通过减少锻炼和社会接触而导致肌肉力量和健康状况不佳。这些影响因COVID 19隔离和屏蔽而加剧，从去年冬天一直持续到2020年夏季和冬季。护理之家和社会服务护理人员太少，需求太大。目前的VR硬件仅限于房间规模和/或有人参与的沉浸式，因此不可能实现社交VR行走。为了在VR中实现安全、无限制的运动，Wizdish已经为VR跑步机（ROVR）申请了专利，临床评估表明，该跑步机使用与行走类似的力量和肌肉群。这款跑步机与无线VR耳机组成了一个“ROVR系统”。社交VR步行将创建真实的地方，熟悉和不熟悉的，如博物馆，艺术画廊和当地旅游目的地。康沃尔郡和牛津郡的养老院将安装ROVR系统，允许当地居民一起探索地方。在项目期间，这些养老院将被连接起来，使地理上相距遥远的群体能够一起探索和社交。社交VR步行为具有共同兴趣的人们提供机会和选择，以VR模型捕获的真实地点进行会面，社交和探索，提供共享体验的记忆和联系感。Care Home试点小组将验证Wizdish ROVR VR跑步机与无线VR耳机和社交VR内容的配对是一个完整的自我激励社交和体育锻炼解决方案。该项目最初将专注于能够独立站立或使用棍子的人。该项目旨在克服技术障碍，并发现自我激励和自我驱动的社交VR行走的心理驱动因素。该项目将测量身心健康以及自我报告的幸福感和连通性的临床变化。独立的临床评估和评价将由牛津大学和普利茅斯大学的EPIC项目进行。该项目提供试点数据，以获得机构资金支持，使Wizdish能够以低成本包月模式（类似于移动的电话）提供ROVR系统。