Ringo's Underwater Adventure:

My undergraduate and master's research was building and designing a virtual environment for pain and anxiety distraction.

 

Project Goal and Motivation:

Children experience pain and anxiety when undergoing various medical procedures for the treatment of cancer. This environment is intended to help ease the minds of children who are undergoing cancer treatment by putting them in another world. This will be done through an interactive game environment that will draw their attention away from the pain and discomfort experienced during cancer treatment.

The goal of this environment is to reduce the pain and mental anxiety associated with childhood cancer treatments.

 

More Information:

• Read the storyboard
• Look at screen shots
• Watch video clip
• View presentation: Ringo's Underwater Adventure.ppt
• Check the flash movie: Ringo Flash
• Try the web tutorial

 

Project People:

Larry Hodges            -  Associate Professor, College of Computing
Diane Gromala          -  Associate Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Cathy Zanbaka          -  Programmer, HCI - CS master's Student

Robert Hill                 -  Sound
David Petrides           -  3-D Modeling
Dawn Pendergast      -  Storyboarding
Laura Mwirigi            -  3-D modeler, IDT master's student