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This study is one of the use cases included in the Immersive Care project. With the Immersive Care project we aim to improve wellbeing of clients/patients during treatment and/or optimize their stay in a care facility. To achieve this goal, we set up several use cases to implement different forms of immersive technology in different health care sectors, and this in collaboration with multiple health care facilities and technology companies. In this use case, we aim to assess the experience, acceptability and feasibility of using Virtual Reality (VR) applications via a head-mounted device to provide people with severe intellectual disabilities a pleasant experience in a virtual environment, as addition to their activity schedule. The (commercial) VR applications are well chosen, considered suitable for people with severe intellectual disabilities. The choice of the VR applications is based on exploratory talks with the immediate care staff of intended participants. We hypothesize that these VR applications can contribute to the well-being of people with intellectual disabilities. To study the use of VR applications in this population, participants with severe intellectual disabilities, together with their activity coaches, will use the chosen VR applications for multiple weeks. The activity coaches will complete several questionnaires and participate in focus groups.

This study is one of the use cases included in the Immersive Care project. With the Immersive Care project we aim to improve wellbeing of clients/patients during treatment and/or optimize their stay in a care facility. To achieve this goal, we set up several use cases to implement different forms of immersive technology in different health care sectors, and this in collaboration with multiple health care facilities and technology companies. In this use case, we aim to assess the experience, acceptability, feasibility and tolerability of using a Virtual Reality (VR) application via a head-mounted device (VR goggles) to learn children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and young adults with intellectual disabilities to go grocery shopping, as addition to their activity schedule. To do so, participating children with ASD and young adults with intellectual disabilities - under supervision of their teacher/coach - will use the VR application for multiple weeks, will be administered multiple questionnaires and will participate in focus groups. The VR application allows users to practice different skills, such as planning, communication and independence, in a virtual world before practicing these skills in a real life situation. In this use case, we will specifically train skills related to grocery shopping.

This study is one of the use cases included in the Immersive Care project. With the Immersive Care project we aim to improve wellbeing of clients/patients during treatment and/or optimize their stay in a care facility. To achieve this goal, we set up several use cases to implement different forms of immersive technology in different health care sectors, and this in collaboration with multiple health care facilities and technology companies. In this use case, we aim to assess the experience, acceptability, feasibility and tolerability of using a virtual reality application developed to stimulate wellbeing and reminiscence in senior citizens in nursing homes, as experienced by both the senior citizens and the clinical staff. To do so, participants will use the application for multiple weeks, will be administered multiple questionnaires and will participate in individual interviews.