DIGISPORT launches its scientific lunch series ! First speaker: Cathy Craig

Starting Thursday, December 12, 2024, you can join us for the first DIGISPORT scientific lunch (webinar), live on our LinkedIn page.

The goal is to offer insightful talks during your lunch break on topics at the intersection of sports and digital technology.

For this inaugural scientific lunch, we are honored to welcome Cathy Craig as our guest speaker.

Cathy Craig is a professor of experimental Psychology at Ulster University. With over 20 years’ research experience in performance psychology and >100 scientific publications, she is a recognized ‘thought leader’ in the use of Virtual reality to understand and improve performance in sport. She is co-founder and CEO of INCISIV., a pioneering virtual reality (VR) games company that specializes in the development of VR applications that improve performance through the power of play. With a strong focus on embedding deep scientific know-how into its products (CleanSheet, DodgeCraft, MOVIR), INCISIV has rapidly established itself as a leading force in the interactive, VR sports/fitness sector.

This talk explores how Virtual Reality (VR) is transforming the study and enhancement of performance in sport. Starting with early applications in the 2000s, Cathy will show how carefully controlling what the brain sees and measuring how it responds, provides key insights into human behaviour. She will demonstrate how research using VR can help us understand how expert and novice athletes ‘think’ differently but will also show how VR can be used to understand and improve health outcomes. She will explain how advances in VR hardware and software have allowed her to make her research a reality, with exciting new VR apps, available on the Meta Quest store, that can train perceptuo-motor skills and monitor neural fitness. Finally, she will discuss the future of VR and the Metaverse, highlighting emerging opportunities for researchers and practitioners to harness the power of this technology.

Event link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7270443246525243392/comments/

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