Representatives from AugMend Health Visit CIVS for VR-FUTURES Project

On June 9, AugMend Health staff visited CIVS for the VR-FUTURES (Virtual Reality For Understanding Trauma and Utilizing Regulation When Experiencing Stress), a VR tool for clinicians to use for youth who have been affected by adverse childhood experiences. Led by John Moreland (CIVS Sr. Research Scientist) and Alicia January (Associate Professor of Psychology), VR-FUTURES is being developed by a team of researchers from CIVS, PNW Psychology, Shepherd Community Center in Indianapolis, Institute for Creative Technologies at USC, and others.

CIVS Director Chenn Zhou also presented an overview of CIVS & SMSVC research, and the group had hands-on demos of VR-FUTURES and CIVS projects in the immersive theater and visualization lab.