TY - GEN
T1 - Approaching difficult terrain with sensitivity
T2 - 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2019
AU - Roth, Daniel
AU - Von Mammen, Sebastian
AU - Keil, Julian
AU - Schildknecht, Manuel
AU - Latoschik, Marc Erich
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - Educating about death is a challenging task as facing death generally poses a severe and stressful situation. We present 5Days, an immersive virtual reality game in which the player has to proceed through five different levels, which are designed on the basis of the five stages of grief described by Kubler-Ross: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Immersed in an atmospheric virtual world, the five levels instigate reflection and education about these stages. Based on early feedback from palliative care specialists, we argue that the realised concept could be a new entry point into the education and reflection of death, especially for medical students and personnel.
AB - Educating about death is a challenging task as facing death generally poses a severe and stressful situation. We present 5Days, an immersive virtual reality game in which the player has to proceed through five different levels, which are designed on the basis of the five stages of grief described by Kubler-Ross: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Immersed in an atmospheric virtual world, the five levels instigate reflection and education about these stages. Based on early feedback from palliative care specialists, we argue that the realised concept could be a new entry point into the education and reflection of death, especially for medical students and personnel.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85074271880
U2 - 10.1109/VS-Games.2019.8864549
DO - 10.1109/VS-Games.2019.8864549
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074271880
T3 - 2019 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2019 - Proceedings
SP - 1DUUMY
BT - 2019 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications, VS-Games 2019 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 4 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -