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We are developing an interactive virtual underwater world with the aim to reduce stress and boredom in hospitalised children, to improve their quality of life, by employing an evidence-based design process and by using techniques from Artificial Life and Human-Computer Interaction. A 3D motion sensing camera tracks the activity of children in front of a wall projection. As they wave their hands, colorful sea creatures paddle closer to say hi and interact with the children.
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Lechat, L. et al. (2018). Medical Art Therapy of the Future: Building an Interactive Virtual Underwater World in a Children’s Hospital. In: Liapis, A., Romero Cardalda, J., Ekárt, A. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77583-8_5
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