Virtual environments for assessing and rehabilitating cognitive/functional performance: A review of projects at the USC Integrated Media Systems Center

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 359-374

  Rizzo, Albert A ^a   Buckwalter, J Galen ^b   McGee, Jocelyn S ^c   Bowerly, Todd ^c   Van Der Zaag, Cheryl ^a   Neumann, Ulrich ^e   Thiebaux, Marcus ^d   Kim, Laehyun ^e   Pair, Jarrell ^e   Chua, Clint ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE

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EID: 18044388407     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/1054746011470226     Document Type: Article

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