Synthetic Reality: The Science and Applications of Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality

Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss

TThe “Matrix” Challenge for Rehabilitation: Virtual Reality in the Real World

Biography:
Prof. Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss is an occupational therapist with a M.Sc degree in kinesiology (Waterloo) and a Ph.D degree in physiology and biomedical engineering (McGill).   In 2001, she founded the Laboratory for Innovations in Rehabilitation Technology (LIRT) at the University of Haifa where she and her team develop and evaluate novel virtual environments and co-located technologies to explore their effects on individual and collaborative rehabilitation.

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