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Healing Cocoon

Logo Healing Spaces

The sponsor of this project is Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. ISEP

Project Brief

The goal of the Healing Coccon is a self-contained immersive pod designed for hospitalized children to escape into a fully personal sensory world. By stepping inside the cocoon, children are surrounded by projected visuals, ambient sound, and therapeutic scents that create a safe, isolating them from the clinical environment and reducing stress, anxiety, and pain perception during their hospital stay.

The project requirements are:

  1. Our project requirements:
    1. Therapeutic Design: Create an enclosed, calming sensory environment that emotionally disconnects the child from the hospital setting during use.
    2. Smart Technology: Enable content personalization, drawing-to-projection features and caregiver app integration.
    3. Modular & Scalable Design: Ensure the cocoon is easy to assemble, transport between rooms, and adaptable to different content and hospital needs.
    4. Energy Efficiency: Optimize power consumption for continuous hospital use.
    5. User Accessibility: Design the entry, interior space, and controls to accommodate children of all ages, sizes, and physical conditions, including those with limited mobility.
    6. Health & Safety Compliance: Meet European regulations for medical-grade electrical equipment, enclosed-space ventilation, and infection control standards.
    7. Durability & Hygiene: Ensure all interior and exterior surfaces withstand regular clinical disinfection without degradation.
    8. Business Feasibility: Consider cost-effective production, hospital procurement and storage constraints, and long-term operational viability.
  2. Comply with the following EU Directives:
    1. Electromagnetic Compatibility Directive (EMCD);
    2. Low Voltage Directive (LVD);
    3. Machinery Directive (MD);
    4. Radio Equipment Directive (RED);
    5. Restriction of Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (ROHS);
  3. Mandatory adoption and use of the International System of Units (The NIST International Guide for the use of the International System of Units)
  4. Use open source software and technologies.

Participants

Institution: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

Team N.: 6

Students:

Project Coaches:

Client:

Contents

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Logbook: Weekly Report, Meetings, Activities

Report: Report

Deliverables: Links to all deliverables

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Acknowledgements

— European Project Semester at ISEP 2025/02/13 17:42