Virtual Reality:

Overview - selected papers:

Weiss, P.L. and Jessel, A. Virtual reality applications to work. WORK: A Journal of

Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 11:277-293, 1998.

Riva, G. Rizzo, A., Alpini, D., Barbieri, E., Bertella, L., Davies, R.C., Gamberini, L., Johansson, G., Katz, N., Marchi, S., Mendozzi, L., Molinari, E., Pugnetti, L., Weiss, P.L. Virtual environments in the diagnosis, prevention, and intervention of age-related diseases: A review of VR scenarios proposed in the EC VETERAN Project.CyberPsychology & Behavior, 2, 577-91, 1999. 

Weiss, P.L. The future is already here: Aiming for excellence. Israel Journal of Occupational Therapy, 14: E59-E71, 2005. 

Weiss, P.L. Commentary on virtual environments for motor rehabilitation, CyberPsychology and Behavior, 8: 217-219, 2005.

Weiss, P.L. Kedar, R and Shahar, M. TIES that BIND: An introduction to domain mapping as a visualization tool for virtual rehabilitation. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 9: 114-122, 2006.

Weiss, P.L. and Ring, H. Commentary on virtual reality in stroke rehabilitation: Still more virtual than real. Disability and Rehabilitation, 29: 1147 – 1149, 2007.

Weiss, P.L., Sveistrup, H., Rand, D. and Kizony, R. Video capture virtual reality: A decade of rehabilitation assessment and intervention. Physical Therapy Reviews, 14: 307-321, 2009.

Laufer, Y. and Weiss, P.L. Virtual reality in the assessment and treatment of children with motor impairment: A systematic review. Journal of Physical Therapy Education, 25: 59-71, 2011. 

Weiss, P.L., Kizony, K., Feintuch, U. and Katz, N. Virtual Reality in Neurorehabilitation. In: the Textbook of Neural Repair and Neurorehabilitation, M. E. Selzer, L. Cohen, Gage, F.H., Clarke, S., & Duncan, P. W. (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, Vol. 2, pp. 182-197, 2006.

Weiss, P.L. and Klinger, E. Moving Beyond Single User, Local Virtual Environments for Rehabilitation. Pp. 263-276. In: Advanced Technologies in Neurorehabilitation: Emerging Applications in Evaluation and Treatment. Gaggioli, A., Weiss, P.L., Keshner, E., and Riva, G. (Eds.), IOS Press: Amsterdam, 2009, 304 pp.

Weiss, P.L., Weintraub, N. and Laufer, Y. Virtual reality therapy in pediatric rehabilitation. In: Pediatric Rehabilitation Engineering: From Disability to Possibility, T. Chau (Ed), Taylor & Francis.

Schreuer, N. and Weiss, P.L. Virtual technologies and empowerment of users of rehabilitation. In: Advances in Ubiquitous Display Environments, Lectures given at the German-Israeli Minerva School on Ubiquitous Display Environments. A Kruger and T Kuflik (Eds). Springer-Verlag GmbH, In press.