TY - JOUR A1 - Halbig , Andreas A1 - Babu , Sooraj K. A1 - Gatter , Shirin A1 - Latoschik , Marc Erich A1 - Brukamp, Kirsten A1 - von Mammen , Sebastian T1 - Opportunities and challenges of Virtual Reality in healthcare – a domain experts inquiry JF - Frontiers in Virtual Reality N2 - In recent years, the applications and accessibility of Virtual Reality (VR) for the healthcare sector have continued to grow. However, so far, most VR applications are only relevant in research settings. Information about what healthcare professionals would need to independently integrate VR applications into their daily working routines is missing. The actual needs and concerns of the people who work in the healthcare sector are often disregarded in the development of VR applications, even though they are the ones who are supposed to use them in practice. By means of this study, we systematically involve health professionals in the development process of VR applications. In particular, we conducted an online survey with 102 healthcare professionals based on a video prototype which demonstrates a software platform that allows them to create and utilise VR experiences on their own. For this study, we adapted and extended the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The survey focused on the perceived usefulness and the ease of use of such a platform, as well as the attitude and ethical concerns the users might have. The results show a generally positive attitude toward such a software platform. The users can imagine various use cases in different health domains. However, the perceived usefulness is tied to the actual ease of use of the platform and sufficient support for learning and working with the platform. In the discussion, we explain how these results can be generalized to facilitate the integration of VR in healthcare practice. KW - virtual reality KW - healthcare KW - therapy KW - rehabilitation KW - ethics KW - technology acceptance KW - authoring platform KW - healthcare professionals Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-284752 SN - 2673-4192 VL - 3 ER - TY - THES A1 - Ignatius, Anna T1 - Ethik und Empirie T1 - Ethics and Empiricism N2 - Der erste Teil der Arbeit beinhaltet eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der transzendentalen Moralphilosophie Immanuel Kants, die als repräsentativ für den Versuch verstanden wird, Moral auf rein rationalen resp. kognitiven Strukturen zu gründen. Dieser reinen Verstandesmoral wird im zweiten Teil der Arbeit ein menschliches Moral - bzw. Ethikverständnis gegenübergestellt, das auf empirischen Untersuchungen unterschiedlicher Fachrichtungen basiert. Dabei wird deutlich, dass menschliche Moralität kein abstraktes Konstrukt ist, sondern ein reales, beschreibbares Phänomen, das als solches zwar nicht von vorne herein angeboren ist, das in seiner Ausbildung und Entwicklung jedoch grundlegend mit der „Natur“ des Menschen zusammenhängt. N2 - Part one of this work contains a critical discussion of Immanuel Kant's transcendental moral philosophy, which can be considered to represent the attempt to establish morale on purely rational resp. cognitive structures. In part two of this work, this purely intellectual morale is compared to a human morale or ethic understanding which is based upon empirical investigations from different fields. It hereby becomes clear that human morality is no abstract construction but rather a real, describable phenomenon which, although it is not innate, does nonetheless correlate to the „nature“ of man in its schooling and development. KW - Praktische Ethik KW - Kant KW - Immanuel KW - Empirie KW - Moralität KW - Ethischer Naturalismus KW - Willensfreiheit KW - ethics KW - naturalism KW - Immanuel Kant KW - morality KW - empiricism Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-40789 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lulé, Dorothée A1 - Kübler, Andrea A1 - Ludolph, Albert C. T1 - Ethical principles in patient-centered medical care to support quality of life in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis JF - Frontiers in Neurology N2 - It is one of the primary goals of medical care to secure good quality of life (QoL) while prolonging survival. This is a major challenge in severe medical conditions with a prognosis such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Further, the definition of QoL and the question whether survival in this severe condition is compatible with a good QoL is a matter of subjective and culture-specific debate. Some people without neurodegenerative conditions believe that physical decline is incompatible with satisfactory QoL. Current data provide extensive evidence that psychosocial adaptation in ALS is possible, indicated by a satisfactory QoL. Thus, there is no fatalistic link of loss of QoL when physical health declines. There are intrinsic and extrinsic factors that have been shown to successfully facilitate and secure QoL in ALS which will be reviewed in the following article following the four ethical principles (1) Beneficence, (2) Non-maleficence, (3) Autonomy and (4) Justice, which are regarded as key elements of patient centered medical care according to Beauchamp and Childress. This is a JPND-funded work to summarize findings of the project NEEDSinALS (www.NEEDSinALS.com) which highlights subjective perspectives and preferences in medical decision making in ALS. KW - ethics KW - quality of life (QoL) KW - care KW - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) KW - well-being KW - depression KW - coping KW - psychosocial adaptation Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-196239 SN - 1664-2295 VL - 10 ER -