Sen­so­ry Room at Ser­vice Cen­tre

In a sen­so­ry room tri­al at Han­hile­hto Ser­vice Cen­tre, cus­tomers were able to use a vir­tu­al appli­ca­tion to expe­ri­ence things that would be impos­si­ble oth­er­wise. The cus­tomers of Han­hile­hto had three dif­fer­ent seg­ments to expe­ri­ence, one of which includ­ed 16 dif­fer­ent scenic videos with nat­ur­al sounds. The sen­so­ry room also entailed paint­ing fea­tures for increas­ing phys­i­cal activ­i­ty. The idea behind the sen­so­ry room con­cept is to pro­vide a pos­i­tive effect on well-being through spaces that imi­tate nature.

Con­duct­ed at Han­hile­hto Ser­vice Cen­tre in 2020, the sen­so­ry wall and sen­so­ry room tri­al was part of 6Aika CoHeWe project, in which Mikke­li-based com­pa­ny called OiOi Col­lec­tive Oy was select­ed as a co-cre­ation part­ner to deliv­er the sen­so­ry room ser­vice. The com­pa­ny was also deeply involved with train­ing the local pro­fes­sion­als and intro­duc­ing the ser­vice. In Oulu, the tri­al was car­ried out by City of Oulu Wel­fare Ser­vices and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu Fac­ul­ty of Med­i­cine.