Virtual Space to Enhance Mental Health
On view July 7, 2022 through today
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Image credit: Anna Lawrence, Meditation Scape (game still), 2022 -
Image credit: Anna Lawrence, Meditation Scape (game still), 2022 -
Image credit: Anna Lawrence, Meditation Scape (game still), 2022
About This Exhibit
This exhibition features the work of students who participated in the (GD 400) Virtual Reality (VR) and Mental Health course at the NC State College of Design. Forward-thinking mental health research emphasizes VR as a facilitative medium for evidence-based and cost-effective psychological treatments for a range of disorders.
In discovering this recently emerging potential, students looked at the three affordances of Virtual Reality: (1) immersion, (2) presence, and (3) ego-centric frame of reference, then examined how formal and visual aspects of VR environments should behave. In the end they created immediately available life-sized environments to improve mild stress and general anxiety for their specific user groups.
When
July 7, 2022 through today
Where
iPearl Innovation Studio, D. H. Hill Jr. LibraryAdmission
Free and open to the public.
Contributors
Anna Lawrence- Tucker Baumgartner
- Joel Weiss
- Jalen Harvey
- Michael Reed