22.04.2024
Virtual Reality in Healthcare
One of our Co-Applicant's (Val Sparkes) organised a recent in-person 'Virtual Reality in Healthcare' event held at Cardiff University on 17th April 2024.
With 35 attendees, the above event was held on Wednesday 17th April 2024, and covered a morning on virtual reality in Healthcare at the University of Cardiff. Our Co-Applicant (Valerie Sparkes) opened the event and also presented on ‘Multimodal approaches used in Virtual Reality for LBP – How do we know what works?’. The event also included speakers; Juan Hernandez Vega presenting on the ‘Human-robot interaction, and collaboration via multimodal immersive interfaces’ & Soumya Barathi presenting on ‘Exergaming’ (Exercise controlled gaming). Mohammed Alghamdi from Cardiff’s School of Healthcare Sciences (pictured), presented on ‘Why use immersive virtual reality for chronic pain?’, along with a closing workshop held by Mohammad Al Amri (School of Healthcare Sciences).
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