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SuperChemVR is a room-scale VR lab and learning game for high school chemistry students. While wearing a VR headset, students will be immersed in a simulated chemistry 3D-environment where they will be challenged to acquire basic lab and safety skills. Through actual, accurate measurement and experimentation, students will improve their understanding of chemistry practices as they learn using scie ...

With this Phase I funding, the project team will develop and test a prototype of D-TECH, a system to determine students' level of academic engagement while completing computer-based learning activities and assessments. The prototype will integrate within existing third party computer-based programs (e.g., online courseware, educational games, simulations, intelligent tutors) and will consist of a ...

In prior research and development, the project team developed LiveSchool, an online platform to track student behavior. With this Phase I funding, the team will develop and test a prototype of an administrator dashboard. The dashboard will generate reports on individual student behavior patterns across classes and on the prevalence of behavioral issues across different teachers. The dashboard will ...

This project develops PathDetect, a smartphone app with algorithms that passively characterize adverse pathway conditions (APCs) as a wheelchair user traverses pedestrian pathways. As cities work to improve sidewalks and pedestrian walkways, accurate sidewalk assessments can provide important data to address APCs which can have a significant impact on older adults and individuals who use wheelchai ...

Many pipelines within America’s infrastructure are in dire need of repair, due to structural damage caused by corrosion, or the threat of heavy metal leaching from lead and copper pipes. However, full pipe replacement is expensive and disruptive, while existing polymer liners and sleeve inserts can only_x000D_ be applied in specific cases and have difficulty bonding to worn and contaminated surf ...

Medical education, techniques, and training are critically import to the US military force. For example, surgical simulations allow surgeons to practice their techniques without the cost, limitations, and ethical problems of using cadaver-based subjects. Simulation technologies are becoming increasingly valuable additions to the more traditional medical teaching methods. These new technologies are ...

Leveraging on our expertise in electro-opto-mechanical device development and system integration (hardware and software), Hitron Technologies Inc. (HTI) proposes to develop an autonomous solution tentatively named Tick Collection Robot (TiCoBot). The TiCo

Complete human anatomy avatars have a broad future role in advanced training environments, providing, for example, medically correct immersive experiences, performance-related physiological modeling studies, and in simulations for the purpose of designing protective armor. USARIEM have created individualized avatars as 3-D tetrahedral Finite Element (FE) meshes with full labeled anatomy, fitted to ...

Major advances in prosthetic devices and aggressive rehabilitation over recent years have enabled many warfighters experiencing amputation to regain functional mobility, and often return to full active duty. A critical step to ensuring that these prosthetic devices function seamlessly with the patient is the initial alignment process. This alignment process is often iterative and time consuming, a ...

The objective of this project is to demonstrate the feasibility of a self-aligning prosthesis adapter for both static and dynamic aligning. Phase I research is focused on a product compatible with existing trans-tibial prostheses but the concept can be extended to other types. Currently, static alignment is performed with translation and rotation adapters. Dynamic alignment is more challenging be ...