E-Health Promotion virtual reality services in MaxWhere VR spaces - design and development

During an Information Architecture course at our university, students designed and created a system of e-health environments as a set of an e-health promotion services developed for a library and prepared in MaxWhere 3D virtual reality spaces. They had to define the goals of their environments, the target groups, they had to organize the pieces of information for having an impact on their future users. During the design process, they had to use their knowledge about marketing, psychology, information architecture and library and information science. Here we present three environments that were designed for using them in an imaginary library in 2025. One of them could be applied in the library of the Institute of Sport Science as well as of the Faculty of Public Health. This huge environment contains various topics in this area. The student applied many media types, online services and designed applications that probably will exist in the near future. An important point of view was to provide useful, important, reliable and up-to-date information for the users of the target group. The overall goal of the research was to develop some cognitive skills of the students: inventive and innovative thinking. In this paper, we demonstrate some results of this research: the design and development of the e-Health Promotion VR service.