Professor to lead £70,000 virtual world research project
Professor Valerie Hall from the Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research will lead a £70,000 project in an award by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme.
The project is entitled: Towards an NHS toolkit for obtaining consent for hospital admission from adults with learning disability incorporating a novel virtual world experience and a specialist interview technique.
Professor Hall will be working with partners in the NHS and Imperial College to investigate the viability of a customised Immersive Virtual Environment (IVE) as part of a toolkit that will better enable NHS staff to gain consent from marginalised groups. The project will use Second Life to investigate how people with learning difficulties participate in this environment, in particular the physical and technical barriers that may affect this experience.
