Impact VR team collect award for ‘Luna’s Light’ at international games awards

Sheffield Hallam University’s Impact VR team collected the prestigious 2023 Games for Change award for Luna’s Light in New York, USA. Luna’s Light is an enchanting adventure designed for upper limb rehabilitation. With an immersive fantasy world and an enchanted bow, it offers an engaging way to carry out therapy at home. The game was co-designed with physiotherapists and patients […]

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Ivan Phelan VR work recognised

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SHU researcher Ivan Phelan whose pioneering virtual reality technology in healthcare has helped amputees, burns victims and children with limb injuries to rehabilitate has been recognised internationally. Ivan Phelan, principal research fellow and director of Impact VR, has been named by The Games Awards in its Future Class 2022 list of 50 inspiring individuals who represent the ‘bright, bold and […]

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Work by Ivan Phelan & Impact VR on using VR to help children recover from surgery reported on Channel 4 News

Channel 4 News has reported on a project led by Ivan Phelan and the Impact VR lab at Sheffield Hallam University which is using VR to help children undergoing physiotherapy. The team, in collaboration with Sheffield Children’s Hospital, created VR games which encourage children to do the necessary exercises in their physiotherapy sessions such as walking.   Watch the report here.

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Lab4Living and VR researchers at the Child Health Technology Conference

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This week, researchers from Lab4Living and the Culture & Creativity Research Institute are sharing their innovative children and young people’s health related research at Child Health Technology 2021 (CHT2021). The conference is organised by CYP MedTech, a co-operative set up by the National Institute for Health Research to which focuses on the development and adoption of technology for child health […]

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Prince Harry visits VR Lab to see prosthetics and rehab research

Prince Harry visits Impact VR Lab

The Duke of Sussex learnt about the Communication and Computing Research Centre’s latest Virtual Reality (VR) research during a visit to Sheffield Hallam University last week. Prince Harry was given a demonstration of a system supporting the rehabilitation of amputees by Impact VR Research Lab lead researcher Ivan Phelan and Maurice Lee, a prosthetics user who has been helping to refine the […]

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WEDNESDAY 12 June 2019 – Lunchtime Seminar with Ivan Phelan (Research Fellow, C3RI, Sheffield Hallam University)

Title: Virtual Reality: How engaging content can aid rehabilitation and reduce pain Speaker: Ivan Phelan (Research Fellow, C3RI, Sheffield Hallam University) Abstract Virtual Reality (VR) technology is still in its infancy, but the technology is improving and becoming more affordable to a point where it will become a more mass-market device. Currently, the main market for VR is in entertainment. […]

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VR Researcher and Games Developer, Ivan Phelan introduces his research to the BBC

VR Game for Sheffield Children's Hospital rehabilitation project - Ivan Phelan

This week C3RI’s VR Researcher and Games Developer, Ivan Phelan spoke to the BBC about how virtual reality (VR) games can help patients through rehab. Ivan and his team are currently working on a collaborative project with Sheffield Children’s Hospital researching the ways in which VR might help children through rehab for limb injuries. This research will be featured on […]

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C3RI Researchers to lead funded project on how VR can help injured children through painful rehabilitation

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C3RI secure £50,000 funding to lead on revolutionary work looking at how virtual reality can help injured children through painful rehabilitation. In a partnership between Hallam, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust the project, currently dubbed ‘VR Rehab PlayRoom’, aims to develop interactive VR scenarios which will require the children to perform the required exercises for […]

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