Walking in Stigmatized Shoes: Empathy via VR

Location

Gordon Field House and Activities Center (GOR/024) - Main Floor

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VR can be fun AND enlightening! Come play our VR game that is designed to provide a glimpse into what it's like to live with anxiety. The goal is simple, but you will need to use your strategic and gameplaying skills to make it to the end!

A cartoon image of a mouth with various statements stigmatizing mental health. "Kids and teens can't have mental illness, what have they got to worry about in life?" "What do you mean you can't get out of bed, it's not like your legs aren't working." "Therapy and medications are just scams, you don't need all that." "Everyone has anxiety, some people are just strong than you are." "Mental illness is just an excuse to live off of benefits and not contribute to society."

Mental health stigma looks like ...

Title portion of a poster for the Walking in Stigmatized Shoes project. Lists the three Radford University researchers behind the project. Not listed is in the RIT student who designed and coded the VR game.

Walking in Stigmatized Shoes

Location

Gordon Field House and Activities Center (GOR/024) - Main Floor

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Topics

Access Technology
Community Outreach
Computing
Experiential Learning
Gaming
Health
Interdisciplinary Studies
Liberal Arts
STEM

Exhibitor
Jacob Shimp
Joshua Shimp

Organization
I did most of the coding for this VR project (using Unity 3D) over the summer. It is my brother's Capstone project (Psychology) for Radford University.

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