The Center integrates the research, teaching and clinical service missions of the College of Health Professions and Sciences. The Center has a variety of “residents” which include research labs, collaborative creative spaces, unique community programs and innovative learning environments. By working together, we incubate ideas, discover new pathways that result in improved health outcomes, and discover new ways of using technology to accomplish educational, research, and service-delivery goals.

Global Technologies Lab 
The largest room in the Center, this space is home to  Dr. Hologram, which produces a lifelike person in hologram form to train future healthcare professionals. The technology offers both live and pre-recorded experiences.  In addition to “beaming” in speakers, the Lab hosts a variety of health and wellness classes and community-facing programs.

Blended Learning Interactive Simulation Suite (BLISS)
This immersive, mixed reality room is used for both student learning and patient care. The suite has 270-degree, floor-to-ceiling touchscreen walls that display curated video and audio, providing an immersive view of any event, location or experience — either real or created. The technology allows students to respond to treatment scenarios or practice skills in a more realistic environment. It’s also used to provide therapy to patients at some of UCF’s community clinics.

Smart Apartment
This mock apartment is specially equipped with some of the latest technology to enable patients with physical restrictions to independently access lighting, televisions, communication devices, medical supplies and personal items. It’s also equipped with a voice activated Hoyer lift that enables a patient to be moved from the bed to other locations in the room. The space is used to train clinicians, patients and caregivers how to adapt a home for safety and better navigation.

Maker Space
Equipped with 3-D printers and simple electric and mechanical engineering equipment and tools, this space is used to adjust toys and household items for patients with rehabilitative needs, creating solutions that help those with disabilities improve their quality of life and better function in the world.

Simulation Rooms
These mock hospital rooms are designed and function like an acute care hospital room with simulation technology to address complex airway and mobility conditions.  They help train interdisciplinary healthcare teams in new procedures and protocols, facilitate practice of advanced techniques and provide learners with valuable interprofessional experience for delivering and communicating care to patients and teams.

NICU (Coming Soon)
This room will hold a variety of premature manikins, along with the tubing and technology typically found in a NICU setting, to help provide students with the confidence and full-suite of technical skills needed to care for fragile infants.

Observation A/B
Two dedicated rooms for observation of all Innovation Center labs are available via private network audio and video technology for research, teaching and training purposes.

Emerging Technology Lab
This lab is a flexible space for teams to incubate new ideas, develop new technologies or explore new ways of using existing technology.

Collaboration Lab
This conference room can seat approximately 10 people. This space is equipped with a large monitor for collaboration via technology sharing platforms.

Film Studio
The studio is used to record volunteer patients’ lived experiences and/or standardized patients’ assessments for the holoportation technology and is available to be used to produce video or podcasts for teaching and research productions.

CHPS Labs
The College of Health Professions and Sciences offers a broad range of research labs in the areas of kinesiology, physical therapy, athletic training, speech-language pathology, and social work. Our researchers use the Innovation Center as a hub for collaboration.