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Communication Problems in Hospitals Julian Leicht April 7, 2014ENGL 2116-007 Robert ArnoldAbstractThis paper will explore several issues or problems that I have recognized when attempting to communicate with individuals who are under hospitalized care and have trouble communicating due to various reasons. This paper identifies specific problems and elaborates on their cause and begins to propose a valid solution that now is available with current technology among virtual reality and EEG systems. IntroductionCommunication is vital to our daily life. It is critical while we are being treated for illness while being hospitalized. Being able to express pain is a crucial expression for doctors to help diagnose an illness. There are many people who have disabilities that can keep them from communicating this information. It is possible to undergo new symptoms while visiting a hospital that could keep you from communicating and away from family. However, Technology in present day is more advanced than we would think, we can breach those communication barriers of people inside coma's or unable to talk.Objectives Our objective we want to spread the concept of be anywhere, we want to take people to new places virtually and around the world. People should not be limited technology can take us anywhere, and we want you be anywhere you want without daily limitation. Secondly, we want to open up communications with those you naturally are unable to communicate. Everyone should be able to express Communication Problems

There are a lot people who have trouble communicating due to disabilities. Patients could also fall none responsive during an operations. As well patient symptoms could cause them from visiting family and missing opportunities they could have attended normally. Hospitals are the places were a lot of missed opportunities occur due to being bed rested. I remember when a family member was sick for two weeks. The week before he was so excited to be going to a concert he was longing to attend. However, his visit to the hospital kept him from attending the concert. His missed opportunity of the joy happens to more people than just him. Solutions

I purpose a Be anywhere solution through the use of virtual reality and technology developed by Tan Le. I reckon Facebook has already though about these concepts and might be the sole reason they bought Oculus for two billion dollars. Giving the ability to use virtual reality by means of advance cameras or virtual environments we can take people anywhere they want to go. We could set up cameras at the concert my family member missed and using the oculus headset, it would feel as if he was there himself. Hospitals would no longer be a trap but a luxury cruise to anywhere you want to go given this technology.

We could even begin to communicate with people that have fallen into a coma. Tan Le technology would breach the non-response gap between communications of people in such a state. EEG headsets are able to recognize thought patterns which can eventually generate a line of communication based on thought alone. As well as place the individuals who have fallen into a coma into a virtual reality that could give the a new sense of presence while undergoing tests. This would allow patients to gain a since a strength and line of communication to others virtually even though they cannot physically.Resources

Given the technologies mention in this proposal, availability to an Oculus headset or other means of 3D rending eye wear is vital. Also we would need to purchase an Emotiv's EEG headset or some similar programmable device. This will be used in conjunction with each other to simulate a virtual immersion somewhere in the real world or in a virtual environment.

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I have been a huge supporter of Tan Le and technology that she has helped developed. She created a huge leap into understanding the brain and how it works. It orders to first understand something we need to monitor the patterns so that we can begin to understand how it works. Tan Le and her team have already done it. They developed a headset the can monitor brain activity and have become using that activity to control technology. Her work has been to help understand and begin to find cures for brain driving illnesses. However, this technology can open up so many more doors.

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Since Palmer Lucky has released the Oculus rift, virtual reality has been given a lot of fuel and is expected to explode over the next decade. It was recently bought out by the social media giant, Facebook, which is going to take virtual reality and run with it. The Oculus will take communication to the next level which mean were going digitally. Method/Schedules

As these technologies were built by independent companies, this proposal's time line is currently estimated to take around 20 months. This time allows us to build software around these two independent technologies so they can be unified as input/outputs under one application. Schedule will be broken into three phases: requirement gathering, development, testing.

Requirements Gathering: This phase will consist of an estimated 3 to 4 months to understand the capabilities that the technologies have independently. So that we can assets any and all available enhancement that can be gather when software allows us to use both technologies simultaneously.

Development: This phase will involve unifying the two technologies less than one software so that they can be used jointly to enhance the experience of the user, estimated to 10 to 12 months.

Testing: The last phase is to test for accuracy in the two technologies with the new software and to find and correct any errors with both hardware and software components, will take 3 till 4 months.Qualifications

Our team is currently certified to develop on both technologies independently have been recognized as innovators by both companies in 2014. This project gives us the opportunities to embrace the best of both for which we are so passionate. So far we have completed 4 similar major independent projects involving advanced software technologies. Management

Our team is a very diverse group of leaders who take on societies challenges to improve daily lives. We consist of team of 9 Project Manager, four junior software engineers, two senior developers and two computer engineers. Our team make up allows us to make face any software or electrical challenges that we may face during the project.Costs

As current market sits this project will cost around 2000 in equipment as we can simply our own laboratory which will help cut costs drastically. Equipment would covert 2 sets of 3D rendering eye wear and 2 sets of Emotiv EEG headsets. The project cost is estimated to cost 1 million for the 20 month long project.Conclusion

Communication has a very exciting future; we really have no idea what the possibilities are until we breach them. As innovators continue to push technology, virtual reality in conjunction with a better understanding of the brain could lead to the Matrix. The be anywhere solution is solely limited to the hospitals, that was simply an example, people can travel virtually from anywhere. Annotated bibliographyFitzsimmons, Michelle. "Virtual Reality 'can Fundamentally Change Communication,' Says Oculus CEO."

TechRadar. N.p., 24 Mar. 2014. Web. 24 Mar. 2015.

Michelle leads in with the fact that Facebook had bought the Oculus for two billion dollars in order to change social communications. In a interview with a CEO from Oculus, touches on that the short term goals will revolve around the gaming industry. However, its long term goals will revolve around communications and really be anywhere and talk to anyone in any space we want. The article leads in that virtual reality will be the new for front of technology as mobile technology has been these past few years.Manjoo, Farhad. "If You Like Immersion, Youll Love This Reality." The New York Times. The New York

Times, 02 Apr. 2014. Web. 24 Mar. 2015.Farhad also talks on the topic that Facebook has bought out Oculus, seems to be a hot topic. He reassures the readers not to worry about this technology being accepted, because it will be in the masses. Farhad describes virtual reality as a natural extension of every aspect of the technologies we use today. Since virtual reality has being a extension of technology people will use it in the same manner, to communicate. In the article is a talk about how up until now the technology has not be able to support the high fidelity needed to generate the immersion presence needed. The interviews in the articles touches on those virtual reality technologies are in there peak and has even been described as better than real-life encounters.Le, Tan. "A Headset That Reads Your Brainwaves." Tan Le:. TEDGlobal, July 2010. Web. 24 Mar. 2015.Tan Le, could be one of greatest minds that has begun to push the boundaries of human understanding of the brain. The have open up a world of possibilities with technology they have revealed. Emotivs EEG headset is able to read the electronic impulse generated by your through process. The headsets are able to read and record those signals in order to program a digital signal to some input. The video has a demonstration of some basic computer functions such as move a item and hide an object. A individual is supposed to imagine this process in their mind and the computer will read and act on those recorded signals. This ability to communicate effectively through thought alone could have huge breakthrough in medical sciences. Tan mentions the ability to begin recognize patterns for altimeters and other mental issues and effectively finding a cure.