Paper Info
Title
Design of a Virtual Reality Tour System for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Case Study
Abstract
This study focuses on VR as a form of therapy for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs). The research aim is to develop an immersive and interactive VR system that is tailored for IDD individuals, for which most currently available VR experience systems are not optimized. Being intimately familiar with a place through an interactive VR tour will help alleviate social anxiety—very provident to IDD individuals. Accordingly, we create a hotspot-based VR tour system, which can provide an almost lifelike experience of visiting and learning about the location. We have conducted experiments with nondisabled individuals, acting as the control group, and IDD individuals, acting as the experimental group, to evaluate the tour system and compare the results between two groups. Our experiments show that the VR tour has a positive impact on the IDD individuals. In this article, we present the design of our VR tour system and its evaluation results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/MCSE.2019.2961352
Computing in Science & Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Virtual environments,Medical treatment,Task analysis,Autism,Testing,Face
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1521-9615
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alfred Shaker100.68
Xiangxu Lin200.34
Do Yeon Kim300.34
Jong-Hoon Kim413.73
Gokarna Sharma512224.32
Mary Ann Devine600.34