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New NSF award: translating the science of learning into virtual reality
The lab is part of a new NSF I-USE collaborative award: Improving Conceptual Understanding of Invisible Physics by Translating the Science of Learning …
Oct 1, 2025
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Ortega receives NSF CAREER award for multimodal interaction research
The National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Francisco R. Ortega a CAREER grant to advance the science of multimodal and microgesture interaction. …
Mar 18, 2024
Virtual nature: testing VR forest bathing for stress and recovery
A new strand of the lab’s health work asks a simple question: can a carefully designed virtual forest deliver some of the restorative effect of …
Jan 22, 2024
AR visual search and cognitive load: an update from the ONR work
Our Office of Naval Research project studies how people search for and attend to information through augmented reality displays — and what that costs …
Nov 9, 2023