The research project "Smart Health Lab (SHL)" aims to achieve innovative cutting-edge research in medical technology, sensor technology, data science as well as basic research on medical and psychological mechanisms and applied research on the effectiveness of smart health technologies.
The focus is currently on research for the military sector: the digitization of the Bundeswehr, training and further education, mission preparation and the prevention of mental disorders. The knowledge gained in this way can be transferred to the civilian application context, thus promoting civil-military cooperation. Research at the SHL combines various disciplines of the UniBw M as well as cooperation with respected civilian institutions in an innovative research facility.
As part of the project, UniBw M intends to implement a large, flexible research kit for civil stress training for a serious game in Virtual Reality (VR). The aim is to prepare emergency services psychologically for potential stress scenarios and to train them in dealing with stress in a targeted manner. Critical application scenarios serve as the basis, which must be expanded or newly developed in this research kit.
The research project "Smart Health Lab (SHL)" aims to achieve innovative cutting-edge research in medical technology, sensor technology, data science as well as basic research on medical and psychological mechanisms and applied research on the effectiveness of smart health technologies.
The focus is currently on research for the military sector: the digitization of the Bundeswehr, training and further education, mission preparation and the prevention of mental disorders. The knowledge gained in this way can be transferred to the civilian application context, thus promoting civil-military cooperation. Research at the SHL combines various disciplines of the UniBw M as well as cooperation with respected civilian institutions in an innovative research facility.
As part of the project, UniBw M intends to implement a large, flexible research kit for civil stress training for a serious game in Virtual Reality (VR). The aim is to prepare emergency services psychologically for potential stress scenarios and to train them in dealing with stress in a targeted manner. Critical application scenarios serve as the basis, which must be expanded or newly developed in this research kit.
The object of the contract is the development of a research kit consisting of a scenario editor (SE), a real-time scenario editor (ESE) and the simulation environment (SU).
The research kit must represent various accident scenarios that are suitable for triggering stress. This means that the situation (depending on the setting) includes a high density of dynamic events, e.g. moving and honking cars, mobbed gawkers, angry people, flashing lights, sirens, rain and other stressful processes.
In particular, the contractor must provide the following services:
- Development of a research toolkit consisting of a scenario editor (SE), a real-time scenario editor (ESE) and the simulation environment (SU);
- Integration of selected devices, wearables and gold standard sensor technology;
- Integration of selected actuators (e.g. obstacles, treadmill);
- Integration of stressors on different sensory modalities (visual, auditory, cognitive, olfactory);
- Development of a new or extension of the existing traffic accident scenario deployment scenario (tunnel).
At the request of UniBw M, the contractor must optionally offer technical support for one year after acceptance of the last work package. UniBw M will call up the option at least 3 months before the end of the project period.
UniBw M. has a total budget of EUR 350,000 (net) available for the development of the research kit.
Details can be found in the attached service description (Annex 1 to the contract, Annex 2 to the AzA).