{"id":6811,"date":"2024-02-27T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trentinosalutedigitale.com\/blog\/realta-virtuale-benessere-fisico\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:56:26","slug":"realta-virtuale-benessere-fisico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trentinosalutedigitale.com\/en\/blog\/realta-virtuale-benessere-fisico\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality, physical well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"

(di Lorenzo Perin<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Virtual reality now substantially shapes the collective imagination. On an imaginative level, it is perhaps the most futuristic of concepts: laser projections, holograms, simulations, augmented reality, and three-dimensional helmets are part of a baggage of images and concepts in which the boundaries between science and science fiction, between research dreams and established results, blur.<\/h2>\n
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Virtual reality as a keyword for Digital Health & Wellbeing<\/strong><\/p>\n

No wonder, then, that also at the “Center for Digital Health & Wellbeing”, research on\u00a0virtual reality\u00a0is a\u00a0frontier technology: in its various applications to \u2013 primarily mental, but also physical \u2013 health and well-being many results are yet to come. The center’s research focus is moving toward the use of virtual reality for\u00a0the management of anxiety and depression in various population groups. The goal is stress reduction and the induction of a state of relaxation.<\/p>\n

For now, the main case studies are two, in addition to one that has “moved outside” the center: a project with university students, one with the residents of a nursing home, and one, which became a start-up, with boys and girls with autism spectrum disorder and their families.<\/p>\n

In the case of the students,\u00a0the relaxing effect of a virtual experience in natural environments was to be investigated in conjunction with – and independently of – traditional relaxation techniques: the research question aimed to evaluate and measure visor usefulness. The results showed an overwhelmingly positive impact of virtual reality: specifically, a greater reduction in anxiety and better activation was seen in those who had the virtual experience (even more markedly in those who were able to personalize their experience) with respect to the control group.<\/p>\n

A second case study\u00a0involved some seniors with cognitive impairment residing in the “Margherita Grazioli” nursing home in Povo. The design of a relaxing environment must – all the more so with fragile individuals – meet strict requirements, defined by the still rather sparse literature on the mental health aspects of the subject.<\/p>\n

Finally, a third case took off from the research center and became a\u00a0start-up among healthcare services providers, applying virtual reality as a tool to support the treatment of boys and girls with autism spectrum disorder. In this area in particular, virtual reality can be a key support tool: the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder now affects\u00a0one in 77 children; centers specializing in the treatment of this disorder are few and poorly distributed, and specialized staff are limited. With the cuts we are seeing in health care,\u00a0supportive technology that can help the – increasingly fewer – physicians\u00a0, psychotherapists, nurses and Health and Human services operators becomes essential. The experience that was developed by Meeva\u00a0 ltd. consisted\u00a0of a multiplayer virtual therapy to be carried out remotely, where a game is created in which the therapist \u2013 whhom is provided with their own avatar \u2013 interacts with the avatars of the kids; the virtual experience aims to reproduce the therapy they carry out in the real world, with the advantages of a customizable virtual world (disturbing factors, azards, difficulties and fun challenges).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Feedback from those involved<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having a special focus on mental well-being, this virtual reality depends even more stringently than other applications on\u00a0people’s feedback\u00a0and\u00a0objective indicators. For this reason, a careful evaluation was carried out for each case analyzed: university students were\u00a0administered structured questionnaires\u00a0and were\u00a0interviewed concerning both their virtual experience and the evaluation of the software and hardware aspects of the experiment. In the case of the nursing home residents, a\u00a0focus group\u00a0including researchers, caregivers and patients was set up.<\/p>\n

As for the “objective indicators,” these are nothing more than the\u00a0physiological data\u00a0that can be recorded by special sensor equipment: in the case of the experiment with the students, a\u00a0smartwatch\u00a0was used to record the subject’s heart rate. For the future, there are plans to refine these readings with sensors for peripheral temperature, muscle activity, chest and abdominal breathing, etc.<\/p>\n

In short, biometric, quantitative and qualitative data are the key parameters for an assessment of virtual environments: technology research at Fbk is always in\u00a0close connection with the human element. Again, there is no such thing as a useful technology that is simply “imposed” by the technical knowledge of software engineers, psychologists and health care providers, but technology that is constantly readjusting and improving based on feedback from those for whom it was created: people. (L.P.)<\/p>\n

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