Background RECENTRE project (4tu.nl/recentre)
There is a great need for a more personalized approach in healthcare and smart monitoring solutions to revolutionize healthcare and relocate care from the clinical to the home setting. In the 4TU RECENTRE project, the focus on empowering patients and citizens to play a leading role in their lifestyle and health within their own environment. By holistic monitoring of vulnerable populations in their home and tailored risk-based recommendations, we relocate care from primary/secondary care and prevent disease development or worsening, resulting in timely intervention, higher quality of life and lower healthcare costs. In the ‘patient engagement’ project branch, needs and wishes of participants with cancer or obesity regarding non-obtrusive monitoring and tailored intervention technology will be examined. As an innovative way of eHealth needs assessment, participants will experiment with the role of the sensor system for future daily living in an immersive virtual “future home”. The data collected on their experiences in VR will inform the design of sensor technology, risk-based communication and personalized recommendations. The assignment
We are about the start data collection for the “future home” experiments. While simulating living in the future home (VR environment), participants will receive information about their health risk and personalized lifestyle recommendations. This assignment focuses on interviewing participants about their experience post-immersion. You will familiarize yourself with the VR environment and also assist in guiding participants through the VR immersion. You will be prepped to conduct interviews based on our interview schedule. You will then conduct 45 min interviews with participants, addressing their experiences with VR, their needs and ideas regarding aspects of the sensor-feedback system, and about their values such as privacy. There will be two studies running at different locations in the Netherlands (e.g. Nijmegen, Wageningen), one with people with cancer and one with people with obesity. Together with other researchers in our team, you will receive patients on location. This assignment offers a chance to gather experience with working in a large interdisciplinary consortium and to gather qualitative data first-hand. Depending on how the data collection goes, there is room for other tasks such as data analysis. The assignment is a good match for an empathic and inquisitive student who values contact with patients, and who is fluent in Dutch. |
