[From Internet Evolution; a condensed report from the book is available here]

Book Details Potential of Virtual Reality

Written by Michael Mascioni
12/1/2011

As the digital and physical worlds increasingly blend together, new opportunities to improve end-user experiences are emerging. Theorist Joe Pine and management advisor Kim Korn outline an array of hybrid physical/virtual forms that are transforming and enriching the end-user experience in their book Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier (Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., San Francisco: 2011).

Pine and Korn describe eight different combinations of virtuality and reality, which are illustrated by compelling case study examples.… read more. “The user experience: Book details potential of 8 different combinations of virtuality and reality”

[From Creative Boom]

The Virtual Hospital

Posted by Katy Cowan on Wednesday 30th November 2011.

Computer-generated tours of virtual hospitals can help patients with intellectual disabilities overcome fears and to understand treatments they are about to undergo, according to a new study.

The research was led by Professor Val Hall, professor of midwifery at the Centre for Health Research, University of Brighton. She was one of four experts who studied the virtual hospital as a means of helping patients and providing medical staff with a toolkit to better assess a patient’s capacity to give consent to treatment.

The findings, published in the latest edition of the open access publication, Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), a leading journal in health informatics, showed the virtual hospital was effective and could be delivered to patients in institutions, community settings or in their own homes.… read more. “Virtual hospital before visit helps those with intellectual disablities”