{"id":12275,"date":"2021-03-12T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T10:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/?p=12275"},"modified":"2021-04-29T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T09:21:31","slug":"virtual-technologies-for-health-at-arts-et-metiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.laval-virtual.com\/en\/virtual-technologies-for-health-at-arts-et-metiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual technologies for health, at Arts et M\u00e9tiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last edition of the Special magazine<\/a> produced by Laval Virtual’s Business Intelligence team, several use cases present the progress of VR\/AR in healthcare. The 128-page magazine is written by players of the medical, scientific and VR\/AR fields. In this special edition, Abdelmajid Kadri, doctor and engineer at Arts et Métiers<\/a>, presents the projects led by the Laval Institute on healthcare and particularly therapy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The “École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers”<\/a> (ENSAM) is an engineering school historically rooted in the landscape of the French Engineering “Grandes Ecoles”. It is part of an approach to developing a technological engineering school serving the industry of the future and four main societal challenges (transport, housing, energy, health).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ENSAM has an original structure as a single national, territorialized establishment, carrying out its missions on 11 sites in France (8 campuses and 3 institutes).<\/span> Activities in the field of health and disability<\/strong> are notably carried out within the Laval Institute. The Laval “Presence and Innovation” team, led by Simon Richir<\/a>, is developing skills in the design of therapeutic applications based on virtual technologies. It is involved in numerous projects concerning, among others, awareness, stimulation and cognitive re-education (AccesSim, Sensivise, EHPAD, AGATHE, …).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awareness of motor disability and accessibility assistance: AccesSim Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The design of accessible buildings and environments requires the consideration of both prescriptive and usage-related aspects. Indeed, normative aspects are in some cases insufficient or sometimes contradictory with reality and require an adaptation of accessibility rules for access to the services offered by the environment. It is therefore necessary to check beforehand that the environment is going to meet the needs for which it was created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The aim of the project was to explore and develop ways to raise awareness among the general public and decision-makers of the difficulties faced by people with reduced mobility in their daily lives and to enable expert centres to assist in the design and assessment of accessible environments. The aim was to create a hardware and software solution, enabling expert centres such as CEREMH to work with architectural or urban planning firms to assist them in the design of accessible environment<\/strong>s, and possibly to certify them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Realistic wheelchair navigation in 3D environments is achieved through a force feedback platform that can accommodate all types of wheelchairs. <\/span>This research project was funded by the Ile de France Region and has been approved by the Move’o, System@tic and Images et Réseaux clusters. It also received the Laval Virtual Awards<\/a>, in the Transport & Mobility category, during the international virtual reality<\/a><\/strong> meetings in Laval.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n