RESeT

RESeT is in the preliminary stages working with teens at a local high school to design a self-administered virtual reality relaxation center.

Target Participants

Seattle area teens.

Research Questions

1. What is relaxing for teens?
2. Is a virtual reality relaxation center engaging enough to be used repeatedly?
3. How effective is virtual relaxation at reducing stress over time?

Investigators

Elin Björling – Human-Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE)

Jennifer Sonney – Nursing

Students Researchers

Nora Carr (HCDE) 

Jared Canright (Physics) 

Sofia Rodriguez (HCDE)

Directed Research Group

Collaborators

Todd Little (Fairworlds)

Seattle Public Library

Publications

• Elin A. Björling, Rachael Cicero, Aditya Sankar, and Anand Sekar. 2019. Thought Disposal: Co-Designing a virtual interaction to reduce stress in teens. In Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’19), June 12–15, 2019, Boise, ID, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3311927.3325313

Funded By

This pilot project is supported through the University of Washington ALACRITY Center which is funded through the National Institutes of Health [grant number P50MH115837]”