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Wednesday, February 10 • 15:50 - 16:10
Virtual Reality in Keeping Seniors Active: VIREAS Project

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This paper discusses the first two stages of three-year-long project VIREAS (Virtual Reality in Keeping Seniors Active). Unlike other technologies, virtual reality (VR) can provide the user with an almost perfect feeling of physical being in an imaginary world or a place representing reality, and the user can actively influence the storyline. Those aspects predetermine using VR as a tool to keep seniors active, which is the purpose of VIREAS. The results of that project are creating VR software dealing with key needs of old age, and producing a conceptual manual guiding how to use VR as a tool for keeping seniors active.
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Astrid Eich-Krohm

Researcher, (eng)aging! Steering Committee Member, Institute of Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität
Astrid Eich-Krohm holds a PhD in sociology and two nursing degrees: as a registered nurse and nursing educator. Since 2016 she is the PI of the Core Project of the research cluster „Autonomy in Old Age“ funded by the EU and the state of Saxony-Anhalt Germany. Her research is based... Read More →

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avatar for Věra Suchomelová

Věra Suchomelová

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia
Věra Suchomelová works at the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia. Her research focus is spirituality in old age which was also the topic of her doctoral theses. She teaches subjects related to well-being in old age. Currently, she is the head of an interdisciplinary... Read More →

Wednesday February 10, 2021 15:50 - 16:10 CET
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  Perception and Digital Skills

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