Design of Immersive Information Simulation of Negative Pressure Isolation Room for Covid-19 Infection Patients Using Virtual Reality
Suhendi (a*), Reza Maulana (a)

(a) Nurul Fikri College of Technology
*suhendi[at]nurulfikri.ac.id

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic, which is still ongoing in 2022, has an impact negative aspect of reduced human activities. All activities are many done online. This presents a challenge for researchers to provide ideas new to create innovative technology to help society and government. Room Negative pressure isolation is one solution to provide effective patient care better. This is done to prevent the uncontrolled spread of the virus. Only It^s just that creating a negative pressure isolation room requires an understanding of very strict room requirements and air circulation requirements so that air circulation from the isolation room does not mix with general patients or medical personnel. To provide knowledge about how to make and circulation requirements Negative pressure isolation room air is very expensive when practiced directly because it requires the cost of procurement of space and equipment. By using virtual reality technology (VR) then the problem can be solved because VR can provide an immersive environment that it^s like being in the real world. VR users will be able to feel how the requirements and how to create negative pressure isolation room-like feeling in the real world. So that this can provide information and train how to make a pressurized isolation room negative before making the actual isolation room. Activities using this VR will reduce the risk of errors and the cost of training on how to make an isolation room even with no equipment costs. The purpose of this study is to provide convenience for health extension workers and the government on how to make a negative pressure isolation room and requirements air circulation. So, it is enough to use VR technology, so information on how to use VR is enough to make the isolation room and its requirements work without having to use the right tools actually. This research method is descriptive and quantitative which begins with a literature review followed by an analysis of the needs of the isolation room and the VR immersive environment. The next VR design is done. The implementation and testing process resulted that VR technology can help understand negative pressure isolation rooms for health educators.

Keywords: Space- Covid-19 Isolation- VR- Immersive- simulation

Topic: System and Applications