Overview

The immersive virtual reality program called “First Responders” has been designed to train and assess health care providers from the disciplines of emergency medicine, paramedicine, and emergency medicine services (technicians) to effectively implement the Sort-Assess-Lifesaving Interventions-Treatment or Transport (SALT) Triage system.

This work is a collaborative project between the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University. My contributions included:

• Unity management

• Programming triage gear kit interactions

• Digital sculpting, surfacing, mapping of all character wounds

Please find more detail on contributors, funding, ACCAD, and Wexner Medical Center here

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Contributors:

Project PIs
Douglas Danforth, MD, Wexner Medical Center
Nicholas Kman, MD, Wexner Medical Center

ACCAD Faculty and Staff Researchers
Vita Berezina-Blackburn, Graphics Researcher | ACCAD
Scott Swearingen, Design
Alex Oliszewski, Theatre | ACCAD
Jeremy Patterson, Graphics Researcher | ACCAD
Zach Winegardner, Design
Stacey Dunten, Design

External Collaborator
Alan Price, Center for Immersive Media at The University of the Arts 

Graduate Research Associates
Sana asl Benham, MFA Candidate, Department of Design
Abigail Ayers, MFA Candidate, Department of Design
Victoria Campell, MFA Candidate, Department of Design
Leigh Loomis, MFA Candidate, Department of Design 

Additional Wexner Medical Center Collaborators
Katherine Luu, MD
Kellen Maicher (Interactive Design)
Jillian McGrath, MD
Ashish Panchal, MD
David Way (Evaluation and Assessment Lead)