Multi-Sensory Mixed Reality Therapy for Dementia
Ingrid Wai Hin Chan · Hong Kong
Craig R. Barrett Award for Innovation ($10,000) · Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair · 2024
A multi-sensory therapy for people with dementia delivered through virtual reality headsets, giving structured practice of cognitive and physical skills.
Working with a population that cannot simply be handed an unfamiliar headset forces the design to start from the user rather than the technology. That constraint is the project.
- Virtual reality environment design
- Multi-sensory stimulus delivery
- Cognitive and physical skill tasks
- Testing with a dementia population
- Designing for a population with specific limitations is a research question, not an accessibility afterthought
- Translational work needs an outcome measure agreed in advance — decide what improvement looks like before you test
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