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2023/11/03 | People | Virtual & Augmented Reality

PhD thesis defense Aileen Naef

The ARTORG Center congratulates Aileen Naef for her successful PhD thesis defense on 1 November 2023! Aileen investigated at the Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation Lab how sensory overload of patients during stays at the Intensive Care Unit could be mitigated by immersive virtual reality interventions under the title “The Development, Application, and Evaluation of Virtual Reality Technology to Decrease Sensory Overload in the Intensive Care Unit”.

Example of experimental setup showing how a nurse may apply virtual reality to a critically ill patient in the intensive care unit. (Adrian Moser © University of Bern)

Publications:

Effects of immersive virtual reality on sensory overload in a random sample of critically ill patients. Frontiers in Medicine, 2023.
Creating Custom Immersive 360-Degree Videos for Use in Clinical and Nonclinical Settings: Tutorial. JMIR Medical Education, 2023.
Visual and auditory stimulation for patients in the intensive care unit: A mixed-method study. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing, 2022.
Methods for Measuring and Identifying Sounds in the Intensive Care Unit. Frontiers in Medicine, 2022.
Investigating the role of auditory and visual sensory inputs for inducing relaxation during virtual reality stimulation. Scientific Reports, 2022.
Virtual reality stimulation to reduce the incidence of delirium in critically ill patients: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial. Trials, BioMed Central 2021.

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