Online and Immersive Virtual Environments for Research, Training and Rehabilitation

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Online and Immersive Virtual Environments for Research, Training and Rehabilitation Larry F. Hodges, Ph.D. Sabarish V. Babu, Ph.D. Virtual Environments Group School of Computing Clemson University October 12, 2007

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Online and Immersive Virtual Environments for Research, Training and Rehabilitation

Larry F. Hodges, Ph.D.Sabarish V. Babu, Ph.D.

Virtual Environments GroupSchool of Computing Clemson University

October 12, 2007

Jeff Bertrand

Virtual Environments GroupSabarish Babu, Ph.D.Assistant Professor

Larry F. Hodges, Ph.D.C. Tycho Howle Professor

Toni Bloodworth

Lauren Cairco Patrick Dukes Naja Mack Jerome McClendon

Adam Fogle Manan Gupta Austen Hayes Phillip Napieralski

Ian Wood

Virtual Environments Group• Virtual Humans/Embodied

Conversational Agents• Clinical Applications of Virtual Reality

and Online Virtual Environments• Applied Perception and Cognition

Research in Virtual Reality

Collaborations with: School of Nursing, Mechanical Engineering, Psychology, University of Wyoming, University of Iowa School of Medicine

Funding: NSF, St. Francis Foundation, Consortium for Enterprise Systems Management, Clemson University

Current and Recent Projects

Training Environments

Direct Use with Patients

Basic Research

Enhancing Nurse Interviewing Skills through Virtual Pediatric Patient Interaction

VR-EPI Virtual Environments for teaching and training hand hygiene protocols

• Goal: Train health care workers in the five moments of hand washing developed by the WHO.

• Collaborative project with the University of Iowa School of Medicine.

• Interactive 3D simulation in which health care workers can learn and identify the correct moments of hand hygiene.

Demo Video of VR-Epi System

Clinical Virtual Reality

VR Environments for Phobias

Pain Distraction

Virtual Vietnam

Balance Disorders

Meditation Chamber

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Virtual Reality in Rehabilitation of Balance Disorders

Medical Virtual Reality CenterRaymond E. Jordan Center for Balance Disorders

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

http://www.mvrc.pitt.edu

Pain Distraction

Pain Distraction

Gershon, J., Zimand, E., Pickering, M., Rothbaum, B., Hodges, L.F. (2004). A pilot and feasibility study of virtual reality as a distraction for children with cancer. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 43,10, pp. 1243-1249.

Interactive Virtual Peers towards Research of Perceptual-Motor Factors Associated with Child Cyclists in Traffic Situations

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Grechkin, T., Babu, S., Ziemer, C., Chihak, B., Cremer, J., Kearney, J., and Plumert, J. (2010). How does a virtual peer influence children’s distance from the roadway when initiating crossing? in the Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2010 (APGV 2010).

Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Ziemer, C., Chihak, B., Cremer, J., Kearney, J., and Plumert, J. (2011).

An Immersive Virtual Peer for Studying Social Influences on Child Cyclists’ Road-Crossing Behavior, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2011.

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Motivation

• Bicycle crashes are among the most common causes of severe injuries in childhood [Revera ’85].

• Many children cross traffic-filled roadways on bicycle without adult supervision [Martin et. al. 2007].– 30% between 9-15 years old

• Peer influence affects children’s decision-making in performing physical tasks [Plumert et. al. ’97].

Virtual Peer Framework

Virtual Characters

Learning Social Conversational

Protocols from Digital Characters

Social Psychology Social Inhibition

& Facilitation Persuasion

Summary

• Virtual Environments can be a powerful tool for training, rehabilitation, and basic research.

• VE group has technical expertise and experience.

• Looking for collaborators with clinical expertise and experience.