Project IREPA
Immersive Remote Environment for Psychological Assessment
The IREPA project, Immersive Remote Environment for Psychological Assessment, aims to create an environment for immersive virtual reality (iVR) dedicated to remote clinical assessment in the psychological and neuropsychological field.
Through the use of Head Mounted Displays (HMD), wearable devices for Virtual Reality, healthcare personnel and one or more clients will be able to remotely access a shared virtual environment in which they will be able to interact, and have at their disposal a set of psychological tests adapted for virtual reality.
IREPA will therefore be included among the telepsychology tools in a peculiar way, set up as:
- A flexible assessment tool capable of capturing the complexity of different cognitive abilities thanks to a heterogeneous set of specific tools for psychological and neuropsychological assessment in iVR;
- A safe meeting and treatment tool, easy to use and customizable to the needs of healthcare personnel and customers;
- A tool through which to hold therapeutic meetings remotely.
The IREPA project is a partnership between the Department of Psychology of the University of Cagliari and the software house Infora co-financed by Sardegna Ricerche under "Aid for Research and Development Projects" (According to the D.G.R. n. 40/09 of 06.07.2016 or its revisions) ICT sector.
