Hong Kong programme uses mixed reality to prepare child cancer patients
In short
- Shara Lee Wee-yee of Hong Kong Polytechnic University uses the HEROCARE mixed reality programme.
- Personalised rehearsals let families experience the treatment journey before entering hospital.
- The programme also helps carers understand what to expect and builds empathy in future radiotherapists.
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Radiotherapy can be frightening for young patients who do not know what will happen to them. HEROCARE lets children and their families walk through the process in advance. The same tool also trains future radiotherapists in the communication skills that patient care requires.
From South China Morning Post
Hong Kong Polytechnic University professor Shara Lee Wee-yee has been using a mixed reality programme to reduce the fear and uncertainty children face before radiotherapy, with personalised rehearsals that allow families to experience the treatment journey before entering hospital. The simulation programme, HEROCARE, was also a tool that helped carers understand what to expect and for future radiotherapists to develop the empathy and communication skills that patient care required, she...
