Virtual reality : people with special needs

Resource Information

The work Virtual reality : people with special needs represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Virtual reality : people with special needs

Title remainder

people with special needs

Statement of responsibility

editors, Paul M. Sharkey and Joav Merrick

Contributor

• Merrick, Joav, 1950-
• Sharkey, Paul, 1962-

Subject

• Disabled Persons -- rehabilitation
• Electronic books
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
• People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation
• People with disabilities -- Rehabilitation
• User-Computer Interface
• Virtual reality -- Health aspects
• Virtual reality -- Health aspects
• Virtual reality in medicine
• Virtual reality in medicine
• Virtual reality therapy
• Virtual reality therapy

Language

eng

Summary

The use of virtual reality for learning, training, and rehabilitation for people with special needs has been on the rise in recent years. Virtual reality allows the user to be trained, to gather information and to perform rehabilitation tasks in the virtual reality space. It allows the user to perform independently, safely, and efficiently, in a combined product of sensory, motor, and cognitive skills. The design, development, and evaluation of such virtual reality environments is a multidisciplinary work, the integration of medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, neuroscience, psych

Member of

• Disability studies (Nova Science Publishers)

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

362.4

Index

index present

LC call number

RC489.V57

LC item number

V57 2014eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WB 320

Series statement

Disability studies