Partner call: GREAT
The GREAT project aims to enhance mental health care across the Northwest Europe (NWE) region by facilitating the transfer of ...
360° videos
YouTube Digital Mental Health
Patients, healthcare professionals, researchers and students are showing increasing interest in Virtual Reality. However, purchasing VR glasses still remains a rather large investment. Fortunately, there are currently low-threshold and cheaper alternatives. For instance, you can play a 360° video on your smartphone and slide it into a cheap headset or Cardboard for an optimal experience. You can find such videos in applications, make them yourself or look them up on YouTube. A few years ago, with the help of some students and interns, we posted the first 360° VR videos on our YouTube channel Digital mental health. These videos could enrich existing exposure therapy for vertigo with step-by-step videos. We then created a series on claustrophobia. That was followed by a project in which we allowed residents of residential care homes to revisit meaningful places from their immediate surroundings in virtual reality. The most recent addition are nature videos, with or without entertainment.
Overview of 360° videos
Heights
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Seat block (0 - 5m)
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Stairs first floor (0 - 5m)
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Stairs between first and second floor (5 - 10m)
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Landing between first floor (5 - 10m)
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Stairs second floor (5 - 10m)
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Balcony (10 - 25m)
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Landing third floor (10 - 25m)
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Landing fourth floor (+ 25m)
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Roof 1 (+ 25m)
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Roof 2 (+ 25m)
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Roof 1 (+ 30m)
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Roof 2 (+ 30m)
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Glass elevator from floor -1 to +5
Bringing Outside Inside
Claustrophobia
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Instruction Video
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Auditorium front open door
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Auditiorium front door closed
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Auditorium middle door closed
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Class door open
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Class door closed
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Little class door open
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Little class door closed
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Small room with no windows, no furniture with open door
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Small room with no windows, no furniture with closed door
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Small room without windows, with furniture with closed door
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Small room without windows, with furniture, with people with closed door
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Glass elevator
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Glass elevator with people
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Elevator
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Elevator with people
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Elevator with moving doors
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Elevator with moving doors and people
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Researcher
Sylvie Bernaerts
Sylvie Bernaerts (PhD) is a researcher in the People and Well-being research group, research line Psychology and technology. Her areas of expertise are immersive technology and artificial intelligence in (mental) health care.
Valorisation staff - researcher
Fien Buelens
Fien Buelens (MSc) is a researcher and business developer in the People and Well-being research group, research line Psychology and technology. From her expertise, she facilitates the connection between research and practice.
Researcher
Toon Colman
Toon Colman (MSc) is a researcher in the People and Well-being group, research line Psychology and technology. As an experimental psychologist, he wants to leverage his methodological expertise for the benefit of (mental) health.
Researcher
Nele De Witte
Nele De Witte (PhD) is a researcher in the People and Well-being research group, research line Psychology and technology. Her areas of expertise include wearables and XR. She is also the scientific coordinator of LiCalab.
Researcher
Eva Van Assche
Eva Van Assche (PhD) is a lecturer-researcher in the People and Well-being research group, research line Psychology and technology. She focuses on how digital technologies (e.g., applications, websites) can contribute to mental health care.
Research line coordinator
Tom Van Daele
Tom Van Daele (PhD) is research coordinator Psychology and technology in the People and Well-being research group. As a clinical psychologist, he conducts research on the added value of technology within mental health care.