Two segments on the Mental Health Channel's Dr. Brain series feature ways that ICT virtual reality technologies are helping address post-traumatic stress and depression. Watch the Virtual Reality Therapy story here. Watch the Ellie/SimSensei story here.
SimSensei and Skip Rizzo in the New Yorker
An article on therapeutic uses for virtual humans featured ICT's SimSensei platform, along with recent ICT research findings suggesting that people feel less judged by interviews with virtual humans. The story notes that SimSensei has received funding frim DARPA and...
Forbes Features ICT Virtual Reality Projects for Mental Health
In a Forbes column, Steven Kotler describes ICT's virtual reality projects being as on the "bleeding edge". Kotler writes about Ellie, part of ICT's DARPA-funded SimSensi project. "Ellie is a diagnostic tool capable of reading 60 non-verbal cues a second—everything...
The Economist Features SimSensei and Benefits of Speaking to a Virtual Human
The Economist featured a recent ICT study that suggests people share more with virtual humans than with real ones. The story notes that study co-author Jonathan Gratch believes virtual humans, like Ellie in ICT's SimSensei project, will be of particular value in...
Forbes Covers ICT’s SimSensei Project and Research Suggesting Computers can Help Address PTSD and Mental Health Issues
A Forbes column by Steven Kotler discusses Ellie, ICT's virtual human interview who is part of the DARPA-funded SimSensei project. Ellie evolved from the suspicion that our twitches and twerks and tones reveal much more about our inner state than our words (thus Ellie...
Deseret News Features ICT Technologies for Health Treatment and Assement
An article examining the role of technology in revolutionizing treatment featured ICT's Bravemind, SimSensei and Games for Rehab projects. The article includes Skip Rizzo, ICT's director of medical virtual reality, and calls ICT's Bravemind virtual reality exposure...
The Atlantic Covers SimSensei – ICT’s Virtual Reality Tool for Detecting Depression and PTSD
A story in The Atlantic featured Ellie, ICT's virtual human interviewer who is capable of reading and responding to human emotion in real time. And capable, more to the point, of offering those responses via a human-like animation, states the story. The article notes...
Army Website Features New ICT Prototype – A Virtual Career Counselor
FORT BELVOIR, Va. – If you think the movie “Her” is futuristic, members of the Office of the Army Director for Acquisition Career Management (DACM) have someone for you to meet. “Ellie” is her name and this virtual human looks and speaks to you just as any human would...
BBC Covers SimSensei and ICT’s Virtual Human Work
A BBC story featured ICT's SimSensei project and highlighted how the institute's is leading the way in the creation of virtual humans that can produce real help for those in need. The story included quotes from Skip Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency and noted how ICT...
NPR Features SimSensei and ICT Research Using Computers to Detect Signs of Emotional Distress
A story by NPR's mental health reporter Alix Spiegel covered ICT's SimSensei project and research led by Skip Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency to develop a virtual human application that can be used to identify signals of depression and other mental health issues. The...