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We are developing a new online 3D environment for young people fighting cancer to meet and learn together and from each other.- "The pain and isolation of dealing with a cancer diagnosis are challenging emotional experiences for adults. Now imagine getting that diagnosis as an adolescent." -- from Stanford School of Medicine's Scope piece on BE
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Meet our new avatars!
You may recall that we ran a competition to add to our collection of avatars a while back. Well, I’m happy to say that this great event gave us not one but four new avatars! I thought you all might … Continue reading
Who should it be?
Submissions are up for the avatar design competition the team at OurBricks are running for the BE community. There are some great entries to choose from. Let us know your favorite(s) by hitting those Like buttons at the competition website. Stay … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, young people with cancer
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Design Competition: Who would you want to wear?
We are running a contest to get us some more 3D avatars. For this we are teaming up with OurBricks; a 3D content service built by our technology partner Katalabs. Together we are putting out a call to creative 3D artists everywhere: The … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, Basic BE
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Presenting the BE community at 7th Games for Health Conference
After having spent several months in Denmark establishing contact to clinical partners and young cancer patients and initiating the first pilot-testing of the BE community, Mette is heading back to the U.S. next week to present the first preliminary, qualitative … Continue reading
We passed a milestone today
Today the first two young patients tried out navigating and chatting in the BE community! It’s an important milestone for our work. We have a lot to learn from the young patients and how the see the community. Their ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Basic BE, cancer, pilot-testing, young people with cancer
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One important step closer to testing BE community
Today we got our approval from National Danish Data Protection Agency to start pilot testing the BE community with young cancer patients at major oncology wards at two Danish hospitals. This great news is bringing us closer to building the … Continue reading
A place to BE – more news coverage on our project (in Danish)
Picking up the news of the BE community from the recent Future of Health Innovation Conference at Stanford University, the Danish Cancer Society is featuring an interview with founders of the BE community, Mette Terp Høybye and Henrik Bennetsen, in … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, Basic BE, cancer, press, young people with cancer
Tagged accessibility, BE community, cancer, Danish Cancer Society, social, technology, vision, young
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A great leap forward for the BE community
Two days ago Katalabs, who is developing the software for the BE community, made a public release of the browser based virtual environment KataSpace. This is the environment we envision BE community to be running in very soon, so it’s … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, Basic BE
Tagged accessibility, browser, Katalabs, virtual environment, WebGL
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Being virtual creates new potential
Being and interacting in a virtual environment opens new potential for being to people suffering from disabilities. A new paper published in Rehabilitation Nursing finds that virtual interaction in Second Life is found to increase empowerment and feelings of self-worth … Continue reading
Posted in 3D, health innovation, health technology
Tagged 3D, disability, empowerment, potential, Second Life, virtual
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The unique needs of young cancer patients
If the BE community will with time be able to alleviate just a small bit of this suffering, we’ve been successful: ‘Too Young for Cancer’ and Demanding Action – WSJ.com.
Posted in Basic BE, cancer, young people with cancer
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