Assessing navigation in real and virtual environments: a validation study S T Koenig, G P Crucian, J C Dalrymple-Alford, A Dünser University of Canterbury, NEW ZEALAND For navigation ability, a transfer of knowledge from virtual training environments to real-world scenarios has been shown in several studies in the past. The purpose of this investigation is to demonstrate the…
DetailsIntegrated arm and hand training using adaptive robotics and virtual reality simulations A S Merians, G G Fluet, Q Qiu, S Saleh, I Lafond, S V Adamovich University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA Virtual Reality simulations interfaced with robotic arm devices are being used for training the upper extremity of people post-stroke. The benefit has been hypothesized…
DetailsBest Paper Shortlist: Using augmented reality to support the understanding of three-dimensional concepts by blind people, C Kirner, T G Kirner, R S Wataya, J A Valente, Federal University of Itajuba/Adventist University of Sao Paulo/State University of Campinas, BRAZIL Wearable device to assist independent living, R J McCrindle, V M Williams, C R Victor, A P Harvey,S R Nyman, J Barrett, H Hogarth, P Levene, R Smith, P…
DetailsThe International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation group on Facebook is going from strength to strength with current membership reaching over 530 individuals and groups. ISVR on Facebook
DetailsVirtual Iraq Skip Rizzo, Barbara Rothbaum, JoAnn Difede and Greg Reger, have been awarded the 2010 Division 56 “Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Trauma Psychology” by the American Psychological Association. American Psychological Association Trauma Division Honors
DetailsRachel McCrindle was awarded the top prize for Academic Excellence at the UK’s Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Awards Ceremony 2010 Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Awards 2010University of Reading Press Release
DetailsGet ready for Avatar-meets-Xbox-meets-Freud’s-couch as techies like USC’s Skip Rizzo usher psychotherapy out of the 1980s and into the information age. Just in time to become one of the Ten Coolest Therapy Interventions… Top 10 Interventions at Psychology Today
DetailsBest Student Paper Award (sponsored by ISVR): Proximodistal gradient in the perception of delayed stiffness I Nisky (advisor: A Karniel)Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Best Student Poster Award (sponsored by ISVR): Probing the behavioral and physiological correlates underlying projection of the body via 3D virtual haptic environments as a basis for developing novel…
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