Tuesday, October 22, 2024

WatSPEED Arrives for Research Demo at the GI

On October 15th, Jennifer Bentley (Manager of Events and Engagement) and Karina Graf (Associate Director, Marketing and Digital Sales) from visited the GI for a demo of select research projects by GI members. Included in these demonstrations was the interactive human knee joint (colloquially called 鈥渢he leg鈥 by GI members); , a VR game developed to improve mobility among people living with dementia; and , a climate change simulation game.听

These projects 听by GI members will be part of the upcoming Tech Horizons Executive Forum event on November 26th. The GI is committed to showing the U蓝莓视频 community and industry partners the impact of interdisciplinary research projects generated by our community.听

WatSPEED Demo

Jennifer Bentley playing Seas the Day with a VR headset.

Karina Graf playing the game Illuminate

Karina Graf playing the game Illuminate.

Karina Graf and Jennifer Bentley in the Haptics Experience Lab learning about the interactive human joint designed for training purposes.

Karina Graf (left) and Jennifer Bentley (right) in the Haptics Experience Lab learning about the interactive human joint designed for training purposes with project design Marco Moran Ledesma (Middle), a PhD candidate at the Games Institute.

WatSPEED members experiencing the Leg

Jennifer Bentley (right) and Karina Graf (middle) experiencing "the leg", a modeled human joint to train medical students on injury assessment with PhD candidate Marco Moran Ledesma (left) explaining the device as the project lead.

WatSPEED Demo
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Jennifer Bentley playing Seas the Day with a VR headset.
Karina Graf playing the game Illuminate
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Karina Graf playing the game Illuminate.
Karina Graf and Jennifer Bentley in the Haptics Experience Lab learning about the interactive human joint designed for training purposes.
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Karina Graf (left) and Jennifer Bentley (right) in the Haptics Experience Lab learning about the interactive human joint designed for training purposes with project design Marco Moran Ledesma (Middle), a PhD candidate at the Games Institute.
WatSPEED members experiencing the Leg
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Jennifer Bentley (right) and Karina Graf (middle) experiencing "the leg", a modeled human joint to train medical students on injury assessment with PhD candidate Marco Moran Ledesma (left) explaining the device as the project lead.