VICTORIA BRAIN INJURY SOCIETY (VBIS)
Our team is working with the Victoria Brain Injury Society (VBIS) which aims to support, educate, and advocate for adults with acquired brain injuries and their families; and to increase community awareness about acquired brain injuries. Particularly, VBIS provides individual support services to brain injury survivors and their families along with programs such as Acquired Brain Injury 101 (ABI), Coping Strategies, Equine Assisted Learning, Mindfulness, Yoga, Peer Support, and Family and Friends Support.
This team has developed a mobile app for VBIS, which directs clients towards appropriate resources to help mitigate current ABI symptoms or needs and encompasses VBIS’s information and programs. After many conversations and research into barriers of access faced by those with ABIs, the app was designed to be easy and comfortable to use for almost anyone. The app needs to present and visualize data and information in an ABI-friendly, easy and comfortable way for people with ABI susceptible to visual and cognitive overload. Once the app has been launched for VBIS, the team hopes to offer customized mobile applications to brain injury societies across BC, and even Canada.
TEAM MEMBERS
Shiyu (Vivienne) Zeng
Fourth-year software engineering student UVic
Shamim Shihab
Final year graduate student at the University of Victoria
Sydney Macdonald
First-year student in Software Engineering at UVic
Marcus Rinzsch
Third year of mechanical engineering at the University of Victoria
Jenna Mehlmann
Project Ambassador
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
The Victoria Brain Injury Society (VBIS) supports, educates, and advocates for adults with acquired brain injuries and their families. They provide individual support services to brain injury survivors and their families along with programs such as Acquired Brain Injury 101 (ABI), Coping Strategies, Equine Assisted Learning, Mindfulness, Yoga, Peer Support, and Family and Friends Support. VBIS is looking for the best solution to ensure current and prospective clients can obtain and navigate all resources and programs available to them.