Easel, Virtual Reality stress-relief

画架、虚拟现实减压

• 批准号: 10044637
• 金额: $ 5.56万
• 依托单位: ANIMORPH LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10044637
• 关键词: Easel; Virtual; Reality; stress; relief

In the UK, 79% of adults frequently experience work-related stress, which is one of the key causes of 17.9 million working days lost each year, costing UK employers up to £45 billion.Easel, is a stress-relieving Virtual Reality (VR) application for employees working in high-stress environments. The app applies scientific findings with cutting-edge, yet easily available technology, to creatively address workplace stress with a compelling mental well-being product.Easel reduces stress by transporting the player to a distant, safe, underwater world where they can foster a caring relationship with an other-worldly sea creature. The player's ability to move around freely and initiate rich interactions within the calming and audiovisually enchanting world provides a soothing sense of control. The player uses gaze and hand gestures to navigate the ocean, and interacts with their sea-animal companion in a variety of ways, including feeding, playing, and cleaning up their environment. At the start and end of each session the player self-reports their well-being rating, developing their profile over time.Our product is based on scientific research in stress- and pain-relief through nurturing animals and how VR can facilitate it. Interacting with an animal in VR has been documented as hugely beneficial, even surpassing the effectiveness of morphine for pain reduction.Despite the promising results of medical prototypes in clinical settings, almost none are commercially available. In the absence of evidence-based and accessible solutions on the market, we want to create a cutting-edge, compelling solution for large enterprises to start with, next offer it to public sector institutions and eventually roll it out to individual customers.The project will deliver three main outputs:1. A detailed market assessment.2. A beta version of the Easel VR app.3. A white paper evaluating the app's effectiveness.

在英国，79%的成年人经常遭遇与工作相关的压力，这是每年损失1790万个工作日的主要原因之一，英国雇主损失高达450亿GB。Easel是一款缓解压力的虚拟现实(VR)应用程序，适用于在高压力环境中工作的员工。这款应用程序将科学发现与尖端但容易获得的技术相结合，通过令人信服的精神健康产品创造性地解决工作场所的压力。Easel通过将玩家运送到遥远、安全的水下世界来缓解压力，在那里他们可以与外部海洋生物建立关怀关系。玩家在平静和视听迷人的世界中自由移动和发起丰富互动的能力提供了一种舒缓的控制感。玩家使用凝视和手势在海洋中航行，并以各种方式与他们的海洋动物同伴互动，包括喂食、玩耍和清理他们的环境。在每节课的开始和结束时，玩家会自我报告他们的幸福感评级，并随着时间的推移建立他们的个人资料。我们的产品基于对通过饲养动物来缓解压力和疼痛的科学研究，以及VR如何促进这一点。在虚拟现实中与动物互动被证明是非常有益的，甚至超过了吗啡的止痛效果。尽管医学原型在临床环境中取得了令人振奋的结果，但几乎没有一个是商业化的。在市场上缺乏基于证据和可获得的解决方案的情况下，我们希望首先为大型企业创建一个尖端的、令人信服的解决方案，然后将其提供给公共部门机构，并最终向个人客户推出。该项目将提供三个主要成果：1.详细的市场评估。画架VR应用程序的测试版。一份评估该应用程序有效性的白皮书。