Welcome to another week and it's all about Skip Rizzo this week as we get set for the VR Expo & Awards from 8-10 March 2018.
Albert "Skip" Rizzo received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the
State University of New York at Binghamton. Dr. Rizzo conducts research
on the design, development and evaluation of Virtual Reality systems
targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment and
rehabilitation - and you will have the opportunity to meet him at the VR Expo in person very soon.
He is also working with a team that
is creating artificially intelligent virtual patients that clinicians
can use to practice skills required for challenging clinical interviews
and diagnostic assessments (sexual assault, resistant patients, suicide
lethality, etc.).
His cognitive work has addressed the use of VR
applications to test and train attention, memory, visuospatial abilities
and executive function. In the motor domain, he has developed VR Game
systems to address physical rehabilitation post stroke and Traumatic
Brain Injury and for prosthetic use training. He is also investigating
the use of VR for pain distraction at LA Children's Hospital and is
currently designing game-based VR scenarios to address issues of concern
with children having autistic spectrum disorder.
His research also
involves designing and evaluating 3D User Interface devices and
interaction methods and he has created a graduate level Industrial and
Systems Engineering course at USC entitled, "Human Factors and
Integrated Media Systems". In the area of Gerontology, Dr. Rizzo has
served as the program director of the USC Alzheimer's Disease Research
Center and is currently conducting a VR study of visuospatial and
wayfinding ability with persons with Alzheimer's. He is associate editor
and on the editorial board of several VR and CyberPsychology journals,
notably with MIT press, and has created his own Listserve (VRPSCYH).
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