Albert "Skip" Rizzo, PhD
Albert “Skip” Rizzo, PhD, is director for medical virtual reality at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies. He holds research professor appointments with the USC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the USC Davis School of Gerontology. He conducts research on the design, development and evaluation of virtual reality systems, focusing on clinical assessment, treatment rehabilitation and resilience.
His work has addressed the use of virtual reality applications to help treat post-traumatic stress disorder, help patients recover after a stroke as well as help treat children with autism spectrum disorder. He is senior editor of the MIT Press journal “Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments,” and sits on a number of editorial boards for journals in the areas of cognition and computer technology, including “Cognitive Technology,” “Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds” and “Media Psychology.”
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