Poster Session/Closing Reception

This session showcases innovative student and faculty research through interactive poster presentations. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage directly with presenters, explore their projects, and discuss ideas at the intersection of creativity, technology, and human experience.

Featured presentations include:

• Creative Aging Group: Brittany Garcia-Pi, Lynn Kim, Ishan Mishra, Kayley Vu, Exploring the role of creativity in supporting healthy aging, community engagement, and lifelong learning.

• Near-death Experience VR Study: Zhipeng Lu, Parya Khandan Investigating how virtual reality can simulate and deepen understanding of near-death experiences, with implications for psychology, health, and immersive technology.

• VR in the ER: Facilitating Change After an Opioid Overdose: Authors: Lydia Kang, Emma Tillery, Eric Bocciardi, Elle Gillespie, Zina Trost

• Virtual Reality VS. Pain: Applications to Spinal Cord Injury and Knee Osteoarthritis: Rachel Smet, Sriram Koneru, Misha Shah, Jackson Gutierrez, Mathew Avendaño, Ami Lisenbee, Zina Trost

• Adapting Virtual Reality environments to people with different physical configurations, e.g., upper-limb amputations by Raquel Cabrera Araya

• Creating Augmented Reality techniques for emotional regulation by Graciela Camacho Fidalgo

• Preventing overstimulation via distraction-aware Diminished Reality by Kyper Bezanson

• A visuo-haptic approach to perform remote motion rehabilitation by Blain Judkins

This session provides an open forum for conversation, feedback, and knowledge exchange across disciplines.