We presented “Leverage technology to enhance the future of aging” and demonstrated the EVRTALK project at the O4A 2022 conference in Columbus, Ohio, on 10/20. 
2022 o4a Annual Conference for Ohio’s Aging & Disability Network
October 20-21, 2022
Location: Hilton Easton Columbus, OH
Please check out our COA’s EVERtalk project presentation and live demo at the preconference session on 10/20 and visit our booth.
Grant: Virtual Reality for Employee Safety Training. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. PI. Ming Tang. $16,631. Period: 6.2022- 09.2022.
Led by Ming Tang, the XR-Lab is working with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) to investigate a VR-based simulation for employee safety training. A virtual hospital with A.I-controlled characters will be created to research various scenarios during the therapeutic crisis intervention.
Team:
Field of research: Virtual Reality, Safety Training, Therapeutic Crisis Intervention, Mental Health, Human Behavior Simulation
Links: CCHMC College Hill Mental Health Campaign
As the director of the Extended Reality Lab at UC, I am thrilled to report that I signed a publication contract with Routledge on an authored book titled “Architecture Design in the Age of Extended Reality, the handbook for Metaverse, Digital Twin, and Virtual Reality development”. The book includes 17 chapters covering the topics of XR in Architecture, development process from modeling, material, lighting, project management, interaction design, user interface design, character, animation, node-based programming, digital twin, project showcases, virtual reality, mixed reality and augmented reality development and data analysis for VR-based evaluation. Routledge will publish the book in 2023.
Cheers.
Author: Ming Tang, Adam Sambuco. Publisher: Routledge. Publishing time: 2023
The book contains learning material and real project examples from Ming Tang’s XR studio courses taught at UC. Please check out another book by Ming Tang on Parametric Building Design, also published by Routledge.
As the director of the Extended Reality lab (XR-Lab), I am thrilled to report that our XR-Lab has moved into the new Digital Futures Building at UC.
Our Lab will continue to broaden the scope of collaborations, using our expertise in both academic and professional fields in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. We look forward to the long-standing collaborative relationships with faculty at the UC Digital Futures, Criminology and Justice program at CECH, Civil Engineering program, and transportation program at CEAS, Live Well Collaborative, Council on Ageing, Cincinnati Insurance Company, and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center.
Please visit our lab after August 2022 to check out the exciting lab space and facilities at the new UC Digital Future Building.
Location:
Room: 200 at Smart Connected Wing, & 207 VR?AR Center, Digital Future Building
3044 Reading Road, Cincinnati, OH 45206
Contact:
Ming Tang, tangmg@ucmail.uc.edu
Director of Extended Reality Lab, University of Cincinnati.
