Our Research with Returning Citizens

Our recent efforts to evaluate Virtual Reality Job Interview Training (VR-JIT) among returning citizens has been highlighted by the University of Michigan Office of Research. Please watch the video below, or click on the link to read the article.

AI-powered virtual job interview tool promotes Smart Decarceration

Our Research with Young Adults with Autism

Our early efforts to evaluate Virtual Reality Job Interview Training (VR-JIT) among young adults with autism and veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received quite a bit of media attention.  Please see below if you would like to read any of the articles or view some of the accompanying videos.

Today Show Article

https://www.today.com/health/adults-autism-get-help-human-simulator-navigate-job-interviews-2D79639050

Fox News

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/05/08/fbi-training-software-repurposed-to-help-autistic-adults-get-jobs/

Reuters Health

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/05/us-autism-training-job-interview-idUSKBN0EG2LH20140605

Autism Speaks

http://www.autismspeaks.org/science/science-news/virtual-job-interviews-help-adults-autism-make-positive-impression

Disability Scoop

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/05/09/job-training-high-tech/19349/

Everyday Health with Sanjay Gupta

http://www.everydayhealth.com/news/working-guy-with-autism/

Spectrum News

https://spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/work-in-progress-an-inside-look-at-autisms-job-boom/

Harnessing Technology for Social Good Lecture Series – Talk #3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJhqQIWmekg/

Our Research with Veterans with PTSD 

Veterans with PTSD article by Chicago Tribune

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/blue-sky/ct-northwestern-study-molly-porter-bsi-20150701-story.html

Vice Media

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnj9zb/virtual-reality-interview-training-helped-veterans-with-ptsd-get-job-offers

Healio

https://www.healio.com/news/psychiatry/20150702/virtual-training-improved-job-interview-outcomes-among-veterans-patients-with-mental-illness