An overview of all scenarios in the depressions module — including buttons and interaction options for each scene.
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Software Description
Detailed description of activities, settings, and interaction options within the scenes.
Patients experience the majority of the scenario while standing. If patients want to sit down, for example in the rowing boat or while viewing their favorite image, a physical chair must be provided.
Park
This park includes various areas such as fountains, flower meadows, benches, a playground, a lake with a rowing boat, and more.
The goal here is to activate resources such as drive, enthusiasm, and motivation. At the same time, it could also be achieved that patients want to engage in similar activities in real life after this experience, which can lead to further resource activation.
Camera
At the beginning, the patient is in the entrance area of a park.
Arrows guide him to a wooden wall where the camera is located. The patient follows the arrow to this wooden wall using the teleport function.
Using the gripping function, he takes the camera in his hand. When he lets go of it, the camera gets stuck in the chest area. This means you don’t have to hold the camera all the time, but can pick it up again and again from the chest area.
Taking photos works as follows:
- Taking the camera in your hand
- Point at a desired object
The subject will be displayed on the camera screen. - Zoom in or out on the object using the A and B buttons
(right controller) - To take a photo, press the shutter button on the front of the controller with your index finger
(see controller image 1).
Note: Photography is only possible with the right-hand controller.
Visual effects when taking photos
Visual surprises were built into some of the motifs. Specifically:
- When a butterfly stops in the air at the patient’s eye level, it practically invites you to take a photo. When the patient photographs this butterfly, a swarm of butterflies automatically appears.
- In the flower meadows there are flowers that stand out through contrasts in colour and size. When these flowers are photographed, other flowers immediately grow from the ground in the immediate vicinity.
- If the stork is photographed, it flies away.
- In the park, bird nests can be discovered in the trees. When photographed, small chirping chicks will appear.
- When the ladybugs on the fence are photographed, a swarm of flying ladybugs will appear.
Further use of the photos
The patient can move around the park and take up to twenty photos with the camera. All photos appear automatically on the wooden wall where he picked up the camera at the beginning.
When he returns to this wooden wall after his tour of the park, he finds all the pictures he has taken there. Around this wooden wall are signs with resourceful words such as “vitality,” “dynamism,” etc. There are also three empty resource signs for adding individual descriptions
To the left of the wooden wall is a wooden stand on which you can place your favourite picture and it will automatically enlarge. To do this, remove the picture from the wooden wall and bring it to the wooden stand, place it on the stand and let go of the picture. Now it enlarges and lies on the wooden stand.
If the patient wants to view it sitting down, a physical chair must be provided for the patient to sit on.
The interaction buttons allow you to open the photo folder of your laptop. This allows you to print out the virtual images of the patients on a printer. A printer with photo paper would be recommended.
Rowing boat
At the edge of the park is a lake with a rowing boat. The patient can enter the boat using the teleport function.
A physical chair should be provided for sitting down.
He takes the two oar handles in his hands using the gripping function. With the typical rowing movements, he sets the boat in motion and can move out onto the lake.
Caution: The movement of the boat can cause nausea in patients.
Chess pieces
There is also a function for the aspect of discovering and collecting in this scenario. There is a table with an empty chessboard in the park.
The chess pieces are scattered around the park. They come in different sizes. Some are hidden behind bushes. Others are large and act as pillars. All figures can be collected.
Use the grab function to pick up any piece, whereupon it automatically reduces in size and floats to the chessboard, where it places itself on the correct square.
At any point, patients can move to the chessboard and check whether all pieces are complete. If they need help finding a piece, they can point to the missing piece on the chessboard. An arrow will then appear and show the way to the missing chess piece.
Puzzle
In the park, there are also two puzzles, with the pieces located directly next to the respective puzzle boards. Using the grab function, the puzzle pieces can be picked up and placed in the correct spots.
Once pieces are correctly placed, they cannot be moved anymore. When a puzzle is complete, a 3D model of the puzzle image appears. This model can be picked up like an object and examined from various angles.
Map
There is a feature that allows the patient to unfold a map to see relevant points in the park and teleport directly to them. To do this, press the X button on the left controller, and the map will appear. With the right controller, you can tap on a desired point on the virtual map to select it.Tapping the same point again will teleport you automatically to that location.
The therapist can mark locations in the virtual environment by placing the compass on the desired point in the user interface. An arrow will then appear in the park, which the patient can follow to reach that location.
Playground
The slide and seesaw can be used actively.
Slide:
Patients stand behind the slide with a view of the rungs. Then teleport to the centre rung area and continue to the top.
As soon as you teleport to the top, you automatically slide down the slide.
We therefore recommend a seated position.
Seesaw:
You teleport to one of the two seats on the seesaw.
The gripping function is used to take the handle of the rocker.
Using up and down movements you move the seesaw up and down accordingly.
Further options and special features
- Clouds float by in the sky. Every minute, one of these clouds transforms into an animal shape.
- There is a basketball court near the playground. The ball is hidden under the bench by the tree next to the court. It can be taken and thrown into the basketball hoop, creating a visual effect.
- Relaxing background music can be switched on for the interaction buttons. E.g. for the recommended body affirmation at the end of the session at the photo wall.
- Behind the colourful barrels there is a bell stand with which the large bell can be rung.
- Rain can be triggered with the interaction buttons. This also works in combination with relaxation music. Patients could be under the pavilion during this time, for example.
- There are pump fountains scattered throughout the park. When activated, water flows out.
- In the phone booth, the phones can be picked up. Once one is lifted, the typical telephone ringing sound will be heard.
360-degree-films
This software package also includes 360-degree films.
In contrast to the scenarios, these contents are not computer-generated but developed using a 360-degree camera.
This allows for a panoramic view, but there is no physical movement capability.
Additionally, there are no settings or interaction options with films.
Since the camera tripod has been removed, some patients may get the impression that they are very high above the ground. In reality, it is exactly 170 centimeters, as the camera was positioned at that height.
The following films are included in this software package:
- Green alpine meadow
- Grain field
- Meadow with cows
- Mountain lake panorama
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