About
Working with the Patient Experience team at the Allegheny Health Network, VRCaring is a cross-disciplinary team creating an experience to bring empathy and behavior change to healthcare workers.
Our goal is to utilize virtual reality platform to allow the healthcare professionals to see through the eyes of the patients, so they could have a better understandig of the patient’s feeling and deliver a more empathetic care.
Allegheny Health Network, based in Pittsburgh, is a non-profit 12-hospital academic medical system with facilities located in Western Pennsylvaniz and Western New York.
We are workig closely with the patient experience team and nurses from different department to develop a VR experience to help the health caregivers have a better understanding of patient experience in order to improve the patient experience.
Ralph Vituccio is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon and an Independent filmmaker.
Scott Stevens is senior systems scientist in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute as well as faculty in the Entertainment Technology Center.
The team had met and discussed each other’s interests and what we could get out of the project. […]
Week 2 was an exciting week for the team. We had our brainstorm everyday so that we could iterate on our thoughts and tackle our problem space. [..]
Week three had us to pivot our design ideas as the hospital visit made us rethink on different aspects of the problem. We had to do even more research on [..]
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