Empowering Nurses Through Immersive Audio Simulation

SIMFONIK is inspired by the multi-award winning XR experience Within Touching Distance, an artwork that uses VR and human touch synchronised to explore the real-life experiences of a patient - from a childhood bedroom to a care home.

Different to other Simulation Solutions, SIMFONIK is the world's first Transformative Simulation Platform, using mindset change and deep learning to address a severe gap in empathy skills across the healthcare workforce.

The immersive audio simulations in SIMFONIK have been carefully developed with Patients, Nurses, Researchers and Health Simulation Partners across the UK, to ensure all scenarios accurately reflect the real lived experience of patients and nurses in the health and care systems.

What is SIMFONIK?

How does it work?

Using the latest developments in bone-conducting technology, SIMFONIK offers a transformative experience for students enabling them to experience patient lived experiences first hand.

Bone-conduction technology converts sound into mechanical vibrations transmitted through the skin and temporal bone to the cochlea, bypassing traditional air conduction transmitters. This means the ears remain open to sustain normal conversations.

This allows SIMFONIK to achieve crisp, clear sound reproduction even in noisy environments and eliminates the need to spread sound waves through the air, allowing each participant to receive different audio tracks as part of the same simulation.