Your virtual buddy: UU

Your virtual buddy: UU#

The project was inspired by the documentary film Life Matters (2019). It depicts a dream about child patients fighting against cancer in a gamified way in a Chinese public hospital. Besides the side effects of treatments, children in long-term hospitalization suffer from unimaginable torture (fear, loneliness, loss of control, and despair). I hope that through the design, I can find a solution that could help them alleviate the pain during the treatment process.

According to our research, child patients with Leukemia may have a lot of problems and difficulties during long-term hospitalization in Chinese public hospital:

We designed the virtual character and user interfaces for the XR app with design system. For the 2023 PICO DevJam hackathon, we also made a prototype implemented in VR headset using unity: