An Interactive Multisensory Virtual Environment for Developmentally Disabled

Emergent Behaviour of Therapists in Virtual Reality Rehabilitation of Acquired Brain Injury

“…The authors of this report have previously work in the field of VR systems for people with disabilities. They have published an article based on their 8th semester project (Diaconu et al, 2019), as well as written a second study on the topic as their project report for the 9th semester . As this paper is a direct continuation of the two previous semester projects, the respective papers will be summarized in the following section.…”

“…In Diaconu et al (2019) the authors designed a multi-sensory virtual environment (MSVE) based on the sensing room concept. The participants were all residents of a facility for the developmentally disabled and some had physical disabilities as well.…”

“…In the past two semester projects, the authors of this thesis have worked with VR for people with disabilities. The earliest study (Diaconu et al, 2019) investigated what aspects to consider when designing VR experiences for disabled people, while in the most recent study the focus was on how to make a flexible system that can be used by people with various degrees of disabilities caused by ABI.…”