Albert “Skip” Rizzo, PhD

The Director for Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California (USC), research professor at USC Davis School of Gerontology, and at the USC Keck School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Rizzo researches design, development and evaluation of virtual reality (VR) systems targeting the areas of clinical assessment, treatment rehabilitation and resilience. His work with VR and PTSD received the American Psychological Association’s 2010 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Treatment of Trauma.

PROBLEMS

“...building hope tempered with realistic expectations on outcomes, maintaining or building social support by caregivers as participants in the rehab process.”
“Thus, for VH and sensing-enabled wellness support platforms to have maximum impact they need to be easily and widely deployable in the wild through an individuals’ mobile device beyond the artificial and controlled conditions of the laboratory.”
“Dismantling studies to better understand effective components where resources should be directed and promote a more precise knowledge base for future evolution of rehab systems.”