Museum for All: Wearable Immersive Virtual Tours in Museums for People with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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Messina, Nicolo^1 ; Matarazzo, Vito^1 ; Occhiuto, Daniele^1 ; Gelsomini, Mirko^1 ; Garzotto, Franca^1

Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering Politecnico di Milano, Milan

20133, Italy^1

关键词: Educational intervention;    Immersive;    Immersive virtual reality;    Social stories;    Virtual tour;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/364/1/012047/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/364/1/012047

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

"Social stories" are used in educational interventions for subjects with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (NDD) to help them gain an accurate understanding of social situations, develop autonomy and learn appropriate behavior. Traditionally, a social story is a short narrative that uses paper sheets, animations, or videos to describe a social situation of everyday life, e.g., "going to school", "visiting a museum", "shopping at the supermarket". In our research, we exploit Wearable Immersive Virtual Reality (WIVR) technology to create a novel form of social story called Wearable Immersive Social Story (WISS). The paper describes the idea of transforming paper-based social stories, written for the project "Museo per tutti" (Museum for All), into WISS to better support persons with NDD in visiting museums and thus increasing their accessibility.