| Description | The project aims to engage with diverse stakeholders who have had previous lived experiences of sexual abuse to co-produce a prototype for an immersive virtual reality (VR) tool, creating an interactive scenario that would allow frontline practitioners to ‘see through the eyes of a victim’ of sexual assault. The VR tool will allow the trainee (FP) to choose ‘views’ or ‘perspectives’ to experience a sexual assault victim’s perspective (the discloser) or a FP’s perspective (the disclosure recipient). Within the immersive scenario the trainee will also be able to make choices as to how the story progresses. The storyline will branch out into two different possibilities based on the choices made leading to different outcomes. The VR tool will also allow trainees to select different personal traits of the story characters that would represent either the frontline practitioner or the sexual assault victim such as age, gender, ethnicity, and appearance. Thus, addressing the limitations of relying on a non-interactive video-based intervention. The prototype concept will be built using a ‘Wizard Of Oz’ technique using paper-based and video-based techniques deployed on VR headsets to assess and evaluate how this type of interactive intervention would be perceived and used by stakeholders prior to using interactive 3D animation which is outside of the scope of this project. |
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