Mushrooms, artificial intelligence, state policy, stroke rehabilitation, television shows and medieval magic were some of the 290 unique presentation topics at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s annual Spring Research and Arts Conference.
Reality of a personal experience led UTC psychology professor to world of virtual reality
Dr. Max Teaford joined UTC this summer to open the school’s Multisensory-Multisystem (MS2) lab to conduct research using virtual reality technology to study body ownership and spatial orientation. He currently is recruiting students as lab research assistants to study body ownership through the use of illusions, where one is made to feel as if a foreign object—real or virtual—is part of their body.