AR for Healthcare

I spent several years volunteering at the Benioff Children's Hospital, Oakland. In the inpatient rehabilitation unit, I worked with therapists to encourage patients to complete their exercises through gamification. With a team under Dr. Allen Yang at the FHL Vive Center at UC Berkeley, we designed an AR board game customizable to each patient to make rehabilitative exercises more fun. I worked with therapists and aides to see how we could best implement this.

After several rounds of feedback, it became clear to us that an AR device as we imagined it would be a safety hazard for many of the patients who needed to focus on the physical aspects of recovery. We instead pivoted into making this a game to motivate elderly folks to get their steps in and get small exercises in during the day.