Science & Technology

Inga Berg Gísladóttir, náms- og starfsráðgjafi við Háskóla Íslands, fer yfir tvo lykilþætti sem mikilvægt er að leggja áherslu á við val á námi í Háskóla Íslands.

Fjarkynning á grunnnámi í Háskóla Íslands

The committee will hear from panelists to answer the question, "How can the intelligence community better leverage research and development work done by different sectors of the U.S. research community?"

LIVE WEBCAST Moderator: Ernest J. Moniz Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems Emeritus, MIT; 13th US Secretary of Energy Panelists: Jim Fitterling Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dow Arvind Krishna Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, IBM Jeff Wilke LGO ’93 Former Chief Executive Officer, Worldwide Consumer, Amazon.com Maria T. Zuber Vice President for Research and E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, MIT Today’s Innovators Presentation: Shreya Dave ’09, SM ’12, PhD ’16 Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Via Separations

Recent advances in consumer-level virtual reality (VR) have opened the door for the development of low-cost, fully-immersive systems for interactive mobility training. The promise of VR for improving mobility lies in its ability to mimic real-world challenges such as obstacles and crowds while providing systematic control over the environment and augmented performance feedback. However, creating effective training applications requires an understanding of how sensory information provided in VR is integrated with ongoing locomotor commands and how the practice of locomotor skills in VR transfers to the real world. I will share recent work from our lab exploring sensorimotor integration and locomotor skill learning in virtual reality. Through a series of studies, we demonstrate that the quality of visual information about the lower extremities influences visuomotor coordination during virtual obstacle negotiation. Moreover, we show that locomotor skills learned in VR can transfer to walking outside of the virtual environment. I will conclude with a description of how we use this information to develop interactive mobility training experiences for people with neuromotor impairments. Ultimately, gaining a deeper understanding of sensorimotor control and learning in the context of VR is critical for informing the development of effective VR-based clinical interventions to improve mobility. » James Finley, University of Southern California