Director for Medical Virtual Reality - Institute for Creative Technologies; Research Professor - USC Davis School of Gerontology and USC Keck School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences /
Psychologist Skip Rizzo conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of virtual reality (VR) systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment/rehabilitation and resilience. This work spans the domains of psychological, cognitive and motor functioning in both healthy and clinical populations. Rizzo, whose work using virtual reality-based exposure therapy to treat PTSD received the American Psychological Association’s 2010 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Treatment of Trauma, is the Director for Medical Virtual Reality at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. In addition to his work using VR to deliver exposure therapy for the treatment of PTSD, he is developing applications for training emotional coping skills with the aim of preparing service members for the stresses of combat. His cognitive work has addressed the use of VR applications to test and train attention, memory, visuospatial abilities and executive function. In the motor domain, he has developed VR game systems to address physical rehabilitation post stroke and traumatic brain injury and for other CNS-related health conditions. He is currently designing VR scenarios to address social and vocational interaction in persons with autistic spectrum disorder and is working with a team that is creating artificially intelligent virtual patients that clinicians can use to practice skills required for challenging clinical interviews and diagnostic assessments. He is senior editor of the MIT Press journal, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. He also sits on a number of editorial boards for journals in the areas of healthcare and computer technology (The Computer Games Journal; Journal of Communication in Healthcare; Future Internet Journal; Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds;) and is one of the founders of the International Society of Virtual Rehabilitation.
“Skip” Rizzo, PhD
Dr. “Skip” Rizzo is a Research Professor at USC and Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies. His presentation will focus on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for the assessment, treatment and scientific study of a variety of clinical conditions including Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Anxiety Disorders, Stroke and Cerebral Palsy. He will also present advanced research and development of artificially intelligent Virtual Human agents that can engage real human users in a credible fashion for use as “Virtual Patients” for clinical training. He will also discuss new work (in partnership with the Dan Marino Foundation) in the use of virtual humans to provide experiential practice for vocational interviews with teens and young adults on the autism spectrum. The talk will end with a look into the future of Clinical VR across a wide spectrum of clinical health conditions.
Dr. “Skip” Rizzo is a Research Professor at USC and Director of Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies. His presentation will focus on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for the assessment, treatment and scientific study of a variety of clinical conditions including Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Anxiety Disorders, Stroke and Cerebral Palsy. He will also present advanced research and development of artificially intelligent Virtual Human agents that can engage real human users in a credible fashion for use as “Virtual Patients” for clinical training. He will also discuss new work (in partnership with the Dan Marino Foundation) in the use of virtual humans to provide experiential practice for vocational interviews with teens and young adults on the autism spectrum. The talk will end with a look into the future of Clinical VR across a wide spectrum of clinical health conditions.
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