An immersive virtual reality mock-up for design review of hospital patient rooms

ABSTRACT: Having identified a scarcity of evidence-based design principles and practices for patient-centered healthcare environments, researchers at the Purdue University Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering have developed a Virtual reality (VR) mock-up of a hospital patient room to explore its efficacy for identifying how physical environment and design elements impact behaviour, processes and safety. The VR patient room mock-up is designed to have a high degree of interactivity to facilitate evaluation of the designed space as a “healing environment. ” Positive feedback from healthcare practitioners regarding the modckup has motivated the Investigators to leverage their experience to create VR mock-ups for other hospital units and venues