The project team VRmOT (Virtual Reality meets Occupation Therapy) is a perfect match for synergizing experts from occupational therapy and virtual reality. Dr. Thomas Choi, Director of the Centre for Smart Health, School of Nursing, PolyU, has over 15 years of R&D experience in virtual reality for medicine and healthcare. Mr. Danny Lo, with 30 years of solid and practical experience in occupational therapy, is the Head of the Department of Occupational Therapy, HK Red Cross Princess Alexandra School, the largest school for physically handicapped children in HK. VRmOT endeavours to create innovations to directly benefit the needy. Since meeting 8 years ago, the team has sparked many novel ideas to meet the special needs of children with physical disabilities by enhancing occupational therapy by applying virtual reality, interactive computer graphics and haptics. The project to be presented at the WID-I4H competition particularly focuses on the development of an innovative virtual reality training system to assist children with hand impairment to adapt to their disability and live their lives independently.
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