Background RECENTRE project (4tu.nl/recentre)
There is a great need for a more personalized approach in healthcare and smart monitoring solutions to revolutionize healthcare and relocate care from the clinical to the home setting. In the 4TU RECENTRE project, the focus on empowering patients and citizens to play a leading role in their lifestyle and health within their own environment. By holistic monitoring of vulnerable populations in their home and tailored risk-based recommendations, we relocate care from primary/secondary care and prevent disease development or worsening, resulting in timely intervention, higher quality of life and lower healthcare costs. In the ‘patient engagement’ project branch, needs and wishes of participants with obesity regarding non-obtrusive monitoring and tailored intervention technology will be examined. As an innovative way of eHealth needs assessment, participants will experiment with the role of the sensor system for future daily living in an immersive virtual “future home”. The data collected on their experiences in VR will inform the design of sensor technology, risk-based communication and personalized recommendations. The assignment
We are about to start data collection for the ‘future home’ experiments. While simulating living in the future VR home environment, participants receive information about their health risk and personalized lifestyle recommendations. For this assignment you will guide participants through the VR environment and ask them about their experience post-immersion (using the semi-structured interview scheme). The immersion and interview take between 45 and 90 minutes per participant. During the interview, you address their experiences with VR, their needs and ideas regarding aspects of the sensor-feedback system, and their values such as privacy and autonomy. The interviews will take place at the UT or close to Enschede (in consultation with the participants). This assignment offers a chance to gather experience with working in a large interdisciplinary consortium and to gather qualitative data first-hand. The assignment is a good match for an empathic and inquisitive student who values contact with patients, and who is fluent in Dutch. | 