What Is VSimulators?
VSimulators is a multidisciplinary research facility combining virtual reality, a motion platform and motion capture technology, which can be used to support research and commercial projects in healthcare, biomechanics and engineering. To find out more about our facility at the University of Exeter, take a look at this video created by Rowe Films.
Sectors
VSimulators provides a platform for multi-disciplinary research to study the human experience of real world environments. It is a catalyst, supported by a community of researchers and industry leaders from health and wellbeing, physiotherapy, biomechanics, human movement science, immersive reality, psychology, structural engineering, architecture and vibration engineering. Click on the sector links below to explore ways in which VSimulators can support academic and industry based research.
VSimulators enables research into the factors affecting human comfort, perception and responses to their environment. This will enable people to be placed at the centre of future design.
Human Movement, Health & Wellbeing
VSimulators supports extensive research into how people move, balance and respond to their surroundings, creating intervention programmes, environment designs and equipment to enable people to live independent and fulfilling lives.
Our state of the art virtual reality technology aligned to a motion platform and biomedical data capture lends itself to everything from VR military training solutions to exploring how patients respond to different virtual reality environments to support biomedical research.
VSimulators can handle multiple feeds of raw information contributing to the development of new ways to visually interpret, analyse and use complex or multiple feeds of data.
VSimulators is an ideal platform for research related to acceleration, deceleration and motion in transport, exploring factors such as human response to vibrations, flood risk to bridges and balance.
VSimulators support research in transforming construction, modular design and reductions in embodied energy, by placing people at the centre of their customised design prior to construction.
VSimulators can uniquely support research into vibration analysis of structures, machinery and other engineered facilities, advising on the proposed design before starting construction.
Our Expertise
Our knowledge base can support your use of the VSimulator facilities. With expertise spanning from structural dynamics to vibration engineering, psychological analysis to medical application, and biomechanical investigation to physiological data capture, our interdisciplinary team can support a broad range of sectors in using the VSimulators facilities for research purposes.
Human Factors, Health & Wellbeing
Research into Human Factors seeks to place people at the centre of design for the built environment, by researching the interaction of humans with the world around them. This research field draws on our academic expertise from a range of disciplines including architecture, psychology, the medical profession, physiology, bio-mechanics, and...
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Human Movement Science
Our expertise in Human Movement Science draws on research and knowledge from leading academics within medical science, physiotherapy, psychology, physiology, sport sciences and biomechanics. Research areas include gait analysis, intervention and therapy for patients with neurological conditions such as Parkinson's and dementia, the role of the...
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Immersive Reality
Immersive Reality is an evolving area of expertise across the Universities and our academic communities. We offer research knowledge in the use of virtual reality for training purposes, creative applications, human modelling, psychology and exploring ideas around big data and visual analysis. The VSimulators provide unique research facilities...
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Data Science
The Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDASI) at the University of Exeter provides a hub for data-intensive science activity within the University and the wider region. Research expertise offers innovative means to interrogate and understand data, to innovate and apply cutting-edge data analytical methodologies. We offer a...
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Vibration Engineering
The Vibration Engineering Section are experts in vibration serviceability, dynamic analysis, testing and monitoring of large civil engineering structures including bridges, buildings, lighthouses, grandstands, tall timber structures and staircases. Vibration serviceability is the study of the whole field of environmental vibration, both natural...
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Architecture & Civil Engineering
The Architecture and Civil Engineering team, which developed VSimulators at the University of Bath, is led by Dr Antony Darby, whose research interests include structural dynamics, most recently investigating perception and acceptability of dynamic motion. Working together with a multi-disciplinary team, this research is providing the next...
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VSimulators featured in BBC Spotlight report on new Biomedical Research Centre at University of Exeter
The VSimulators facility at Exeter Science Park was featured in a BBC Spotlight news segment about a successful £15m bid for a Biomedical Research Centre by Professor Sallie Lamb at the University of Exeter's Medical School.
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