OT VR Community of Practice meeting 18th August 2025

Guest Presenter: Professor Marina Ciccarelli - Dean Learning and Teaching Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth.

She has a strong interest in how emerging technologies can support people of all ages and abilities to participate in meaningful everyday activities. Marina has worked with an interprofessional team at Curtin University’s HIVE (Hub for Immersive Visualisation and eResearch) to co-create a couple of virtual reality resources.  In this session she discusses a cooking VR program for clients with spinal chord injury, that was co-designed with a consumer. 

OT VR Community of Practice meeting 28th May 2025

• GUEST PRESNTER: Erin MacIntyre

  • Erin who recently completed her PHD and is a Physiotherapist and researcher at UniSA. Presented on a range of VR related research studies she has been involved in. Including use of VR for pain management, increasing exercise and ADL engagement.

• Launch of our groups new Online OT VR Resource Hub

OT VR Community of Practice meeting Feb 26th  

Guest presenter: Dr Robert Cuthbert

See attached recording

Monday 28th October 2024

Guest Speaker - Jess Francis - Discussed her VR Research and some case studies. 

See attached meeting notes

27th May 2024

• Inaugural session

• Q&A discussions on using VR and directions for this group