Paper Info
Title
Virtual Reality in Assessing the Supportive Environment that Promotes Navigability of Persons with Alzheimer's disease.
Abstract
Spatial cognition and representation in persons with Alzheimeru0027s disease (AD) is usually impaired, alongside with cognitive impairment. It is important to provide the supportive environments that support their ability of wayfinding to maintain the daily activities and autonomy. The aim of this paper is to emphasize how Virtual Reality (VR) system is used to assess the improved environmental design that promotes spatial navigability in persons with AD. The importance of supportive environments and significant studies that used VR in the wayfinding interventions is presented. The paper proposed a strategy to use Virtual Environment (VE), replacing the traditional assessment in the design development phase of supportive environment. Results from the preliminary valuation using interview show positive feedback by the medical experts, since immersive VE allows the experience being in actual environment. Also, the proposed strategy may reduce the costly and time-consuming design process. An evidence-based validation involving persons with AD will be conducted to investigate the effectiveness of this assessment strategy by comparing the individualsu0027 navigational performances in both real and VE.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
AAATE Conf.
Data mining,Psychological intervention,Virtual machine,Activities of daily living,Virtual reality,Computer science,Autonomy,Environmental design,Spatial cognition,Navigability,Human–computer interaction
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
217
1879-8365
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rosalam Che Me100.68
Silvia Maria Gramegna200.34
Alessandro Biamonti300.68