Immersive Virtual Reality and Persons with Dementia: A Literature Review

Strong, Joe

doi:10.1080/01634372.2020.1733726

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“…The findings of the present study add to the evidence [12][13][14][17][18][19][20][21]27] that supports the safety and feasibility of using VR headsets to promote immersive experiences for people with dementia. Furthermore, results suggest that immersion with 360 • videos, specifically of locations that are relevant to each individual's life story, may lead people with dementia to reminisce and reenact stories from their past, often spontaneously.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…VR is often used for recreational purposes, but also increasingly in therapeutic settings, with goals such as addressing phobias, improving knowledge and empathy regarding a condition, and developing motor or cognitive skills [12][13][14][15]. VR systems promote mostly audiovisual experiences and allow for different degrees of immersion, ranging from the non-immersive (in which, for example, visual stimuli are presented on a monitor) to the fully immersive (using technologies such as head-mounted displays, also known as VR headsets or goggles) [14,16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Immersion can be achieved when a vivid and surrounding experience is presented, occupying the individual's field of view while significantly reducing stimuli from physical reality, which in turn may lead to a sense of presence in the virtual environment [15,16]. Current research suggests that immersive VR is safe, well-tolerated and capable of promoting engagement and providing pleasant experiences to people with dementia [12][13][14][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Furthermore, a recent study by Rose et al [17], using VR headsets, has shown that when participants with dementia observed 360 • videos of locations that looked familiar, they often would reminisce about the past.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Promoting Reminiscences with Virtual Reality Headsets: A Pilot Study with People with Dementia

Coelho

Marques

Moreira

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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This study aimed to explore the feasibility and effects of promoting reminiscences, using virtual reality (VR) headsets for viewing 360° videos with personal relevance, with people with dementia. A study with a mixed methods design was conducted with nine older adults diagnosed with dementia. Interventions consisted of four sessions, in which the participants’ engagement, psychological and behavioral symptoms, and simulation sickness symptoms were evaluated. Neuropsychiatric symptomatology and quality of life were measured pre- and post-intervention. Caregivers were interviewed regarding the effect of the approach. In most cases, participants appeared to enjoy the sessions, actively explored the 360° environment, and shared memories associated with the depicted locations, often spontaneously. There were no cases of significant increases in simulator sickness and psychological and behavioral symptoms during sessions, with only some instances of minor eyestrain, fullness of head, anxiety, irritability, and agitation being detected. Although there were no significant changes in the measured outcomes after intervention, the caregivers assessed the experience as potentially beneficial for most participants. In this study, promoting reminiscences with VR headsets was found to be a safe and engaging experience for people with dementia. However, future studies are required to better understand the added value of immersion, using VR, in reminiscence therapy.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Promoting Reminiscences with Virtual Reality Headsets: A Pilot Study with People with Dementia

Coelho

Marques

Moreira

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…However, many existing VR tests rely on external controls such as a computer mouse or touchscreen to interact with a twodimensional screen or augmented reality, instead of using a headmounted device (HMD) with a three-dimensional environment (Bottiroli et al, 2017;Gamito et al, 2017;Zygouris et al, 2017;Chua et al, 2019). Without a three-dimensional environment, these VR systems are not be able to create a fully-immersive experience where the person has the sense of "being there, " thus being unable to simulate tasks that sufficiently mimic real life to assess a person's cognitive function (Strong, 2020). Moreover, these systems can only assess limited number of cognitive domains in one setting and lack language-domain assessment (Fernandez Montenegro and Argyriou, 2017;Seo et al, 2017;Lecouvey et al, 2019).…”

Section: Introduction Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Fully-Immersive and Automated Virtual Reality System to Assess the Six Domains of Cognition: Protocol for a Feasibility Study

Lim

Wong

Teh

et al. 2021

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Introduction: Dementia is increasing in prevalence in aging populations. Current questionnaire-based cognitive assessments may not comprehensively assess cognitive function and real-time task-performance. Virtual reality (VR) technology has been used in cognitive assessments but existing systems have limited scope in evaluating all cognitive domains. We have developed a novel, fully-immersive VR system (CAVIRE: Cognitive Assessment by VIrtual REality), which incorporates automated audio-visual instructions. An automated scoring matrix to assess the six cognitive domains—perceptual-motor function, executive function, complex attention, social cognition, learning and memory, and language—is embedded in the CAVIRE system.Aims: The primary aim is to evaluate the feasibility of using the CAVIRE system to assess cognitive function of participants across different age groups from 35 to 84 years old. The secondary aims are to determine the CAVIRE performance-indices (completion time and scores) of the participants and to assess their acceptability toward the use of CAVIRE as a modality for cognitive assessment.Methods: One hundred and seventy-five participants will be assessed by CAVIRE at a primary care clinic in Singapore. They will be first assessed using questionnaires: Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Abbreviated Mental Test (AMT), Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Basic Activities of Daily Living (BADLs), Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs). Those aged 65–84 years will be grouped into cognitively intact (n = 50, MoCA score ≥ 26) and cognitively impaired (n = 50, MoCA < 26). The CAVIRE performance-indices of cognitively healthy younger participants aged 35–64 years (n = 75) will serve as benchmark references. CAVIRE auto-computes the participant's performance-indices in 13 different segments. The tasks include domestic chores, memory, shopping, and social interactions. The proportion of participants who complete the entire VR assessment in each age group will be evaluated as feasibility indicators. The CAVIRE performance-indices will be compared across the different age groups. Feedback on the acceptability of the CAVIRE system will be collated and compared among the participants across the age groups.Significance: CAVIRE is designed to assess the six domains of cognitive function using VR. The results of this feasibility study will provide insights for the implementation of the CAVIRE system as an alternative modality of cognitive assessment in the community.

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“…People with dementia commonly undergo multisensory stimulation therapies to reduce the risk of sensory deprivation, challenging behaviors, and maintain cognitive functions [Collier and Jakob, 2017]. Within a virtual multisensory environment, an increased sense of presence can lead to enhanced therapeutic effects, therefore, contributing to improved well-being [Strong, 2020].…”

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confidence: 99%

Multimodality for Passive Experience: Effects of Visual, Auditory, Vibration and Draught Stimuli on Sense of Presence

Honegger¹,

Feng²,

Rauterberg³

2021

jucs

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Adequate use of multimodal stimuli plays a crucial role in help forming the sense of presence within a virtual environment. While most of the presence research attempts to engage more sensory modalities to induce a higher sense of presence, this paper investigates the relevance of each sensory modality and different combinations on the subjective sense of presence using a specifically designed scenario of a passive experience. We chose a neutral test scenario of “waiting at a train station while a train is passing by” to avoid the potential influence of story narrative on mental presence and replicated realistic multimodal stimuli that are highly relevant to our test setting. All four stimuli - visual, auditory, vibration, and draught - with 16 possibilities of combinations were systematically evaluated with 24 participants. The evaluation was performed on one crucial aspect of presence – “realness” to reflect user presence in general. The perceived realism value was assessed using a scalometer. The findings of main effects indicate that the auditory stimuli had the most significant contribution in creating the sense of presence. The results of interaction effects suggest the impact of draught stimuli is significant in relation to other stimuli - visual and auditory. Also, the gender effects revealed that the sense of presence reported by female participants is influenced by more factors than merely adding more sensory modalities.

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Immersive Virtual Reality and Persons with Dementia: A Literature Review

Cited by 52 publications

References 45 publications

Promoting Reminiscences with Virtual Reality Headsets: A Pilot Study with People with Dementia

Promoting Reminiscences with Virtual Reality Headsets: A Pilot Study with People with Dementia

A Fully-Immersive and Automated Virtual Reality System to Assess the Six Domains of Cognition: Protocol for a Feasibility Study

Multimodality for Passive Experience: Effects of Visual, Auditory, Vibration and Draught Stimuli on Sense of Presence

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