News: Innovation Center
UCF Students Reimagine Clothing Through Adaptive Design
At UCF’s Rehabilitation Innovation Center, teams of students from different disciplines are transforming everyday clothing into life-changing solutions for people with disabilities and medical challenges.
UCF Healthcare Students Use Immersive Simulation to Learn from Fatal Burn Case
At the Rehabilitation Innovation Center, students are learning through a case study of a 22-year-old man who suffered fatal burn injuries and kidney failure. Using holograms, a 4D interactive simulation...
CHPS Researchers Building Holographic Library of Adults Who Use Assistive Technology
The Rehabilitation Innovation Center’s hologram technology keeps advancing healthcare education in “out-of-the-box” ways. The next exciting expansion will be the development of a first of its kind holographic library focused...
Students Learn Team-based NICU Care Through Hands on Simulation
Students at the College of Health Professions and Sciences (CHPS) are learning how to succeed on a healthcare team through immersive clinical experiences that enable them to develop skills in...
Teaching STEM With Holograms
The University of Central Florida uses hologram technology to “beam” expert speakers into the classroom, help with engineering projects, and more. Over the past three years, holograms have become a...
Donation from Variety – the Children’s Charity of Florida Helps Researchers Explore New Literacy Building Tools
The Communication Sciences and Disorders Clinic has been offering reading programs to the Orlando community for the last four years and recently introduced a new, high tech way of learning...
UCF Students Earn Fellowships To Advance Huntington Disease Research
Three UCF undergraduates will spend their summer doing cutting-edge Huntington disease (HD) research after earning prestigious fellowships from the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. The society awarded six national fellowships...
Holograms Begin Beaming Into College Classrooms
Bari Hoffman first learned of holograms during the pandemic, when she saw that rapper Diddy had beamed a full-body digital version of himself into a seven-foot-tall display box to remotely...
CES Roundup: Holoportation, Empathic Robot, Aging Suit, Bionic Prosthetic Arm, Headband For Better Sleep
CES 2024 was dominated by “artificial intelligence” and tech solutions to better our lives, including many solutions in the health and wellness space. Below is Medtech Insight’s final roundup of some of...
“Holoportation,” robot romances: Futurist Faith Popcorn’s latest predictions
“Holoportation,” three-way romances involving robots, extending the natural lives of dogs — they’re all on the latest prediction list from Faith Popcorn, the flamboyant futurist and trend-spotter who introduced the world...
