WP2 — Co-creation and Design

Overview

WP2 focuses on the co-creation and participatory design of several Immersive Prevention Centers (IPCs) that will later be implemented and evaluated.
It emphasizes human-centred, ethnographic, and co-design methodologies involving practitioners, researchers, industrial partners, and patients, ensuring that the envisioned prevention centers are grounded in both user needs and technological feasibility.

Objectives

Our main objective is to design several IPCs that we can evaluate, using user-centred approaches that mix ethnographic (observations, interviews, focus groups) and co-creation methods (workshops with stakeholders, paper and VR — Shapes XR — prototypes).

Nantes Université (NU) has solid expertise in applying these methods, which C2Care, DiverSSity, and HES-SO are also accustomed to.

To achieve this, the WP will:

1. Develop a common vision of what immersive prevention centers in the Metaverse could be.
   This long-term vision will be based on how the various partners — healthcare practitioners, researchers, industrial actors, and patients — imagine the immersive teleclinics of the future, informed by the current state of the art and the anticipated evolution of immersive technologies and virtual worlds.

2. Define scenarios and use cases for secondary and tertiary prevention centers, addressing two target populations across three countries.
   This includes selecting the exercises from C2Care and DiverSSity that will be used in the implemented prevention centers (WP4).

3. Define the project’s evaluation objectives to ensure that the designed scenarios are both feasible and assessable during the project timeframe.
   These objectives will help guide decisions, prioritize efforts, and serve as reference points throughout the project.

Summary

WP2 lays the foundation for the project’s user-centred design strategy, establishing a shared vision and framework for immersive prevention centers in the Metaverse.
Through iterative co-creation, participatory design, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this WP ensures that the IPCs are conceptually sound, technically feasible, and evaluable within the project’s timeframe.