Dia 24/05, às 15h, acontecerá o seminário “Virtual Reality Forest Bathing: Designing for Optimal Stress Reduction”, proferido pelo professor Francisco Raúl Ortega.
Seminário da Pós: Virtual Reality Forest Bathing: Designing for Optimal Stress Reduction
Resumo do Seminário: Forest bathing is practice of sensory immersion in a nature environment for stress relief and mental resource restoration. Forest bathing offers many positive effects that can help people’s mental health; however, many people who are in the most need of stress reduction benefits do not have access to nature, such as people in hospitals, nursing homes, and large cities. Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to increase accessibility to the benefits of nature by delivering immersive nature simulations that provide similar benefits. To create an effective virtual nature environment (VNE), research needs to be conducted on the components of a nature environment that make forest bathing effective. Additionally, a key issue with creating VNE’s is making them deployable on accessible, everyday VR headsets like the Oculus Quest 2. This talk will discuss the results from our experiments showing the potential of biomass, or living green nature, as an essential component for restorative effect.
Conheça o Professor: Francisco R. Ortega is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University (CSU) and has been Director of the Natural User Interaction Lab (NUILAB) since Fall 2018. Dr. Ortega earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science (CS) in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and 3D User Interfaces (3DUI) from Florida International University (FIU). During his 5 ½ years at CSU, Dr. Ortega has been funded by NSF (including the NSF CAREER), the Office of Naval Research, DARPA, the Dan Marino Foundation, and internal grants at CSU. During the last 5 ½ years, Dr. Ortega has brought over 4.3 million dollars in external funding to CSU (with 3.9 million as principal investigator). His research has resulted in over 90 peer-reviewed publications, including books, journals, conferences, workshops, and magazine articles, in venues such as ACM CHI, ACM VRST, IEEE VR, IEEE TVCG, IEEE ISMAR, ACM PACMHCI, ACM ISS, ACM SUI, IEEE 3DUI, HFES, and Human Factor Journals, among others .Finally, Dr. Ortega is committed to diversity and inclusion, and his mission is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in CS. Dr. Ortega is committed to diversity and inclusion, and his mission is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in CS, rooted in his own experiences and from the time spent at FIU, the largest R1 Hispanic serving institution.
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