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Overview

Albert Rizzo is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of medicine and psychology, with significant work in clinical psychology and human-computer interaction. This work also spans subfields such as epidemiology, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and applied psychology.

Rizzo's research topics cover areas including:

  • Virtual reality applications and impacts
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder research
  • Digital mental health interventions
  • Telemedicine and telehealth implementation
  • Traumatic brain injury research
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Stroke rehabilitation and recovery

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, including:

  • Journal of Medical Extended Reality (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Virtual Reality (3 publications)
  • Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2 publications)
  • Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science (2 publications)

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Rizzo include:

  • "Factors Associated With Virtual Reality Sickness in Head-Mounted Displays: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis," 2020, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "A Review of Telepresence, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality Applied to Clinical Care," 2020, Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science
  • "Advances in the use of virtual reality to treat mental health conditions," 2024, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • "Enhancing exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): a randomized clinical trial of virtual reality and imaginal exposure with a cognitive enhancer," 2022, Translational Psychiatry
  • "A Virtual-Reality System Integrated With Neuro-Behavior Sensing for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Intelligent Assessment," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Rizzo has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Barbara O. Rothbaum
  • Sharon Mozgai
  • JoAnn Difede
  • Brenda K. Wiederhold
  • Aaron M. Norr

Best Publications

  • Affective outcomes of virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety and specific phobias: a meta-analysis.

    Thomas D. Parsons;Albert A. Rizzo

  • A SWOT analysis of the field of virtual reality rehabilitation and therapy

    Albert Rizzo;Gerard Jounghyun Kim

  • The application of virtual reality technology in rehabilitation.

    Maria T. Schultheis;Albert A. Rizzo

  • Analysis of assets for virtual reality applications in neuropsychology

    Albert A. Rizzo;Maria Schultheis;Kimberly A. Kerns;Catherine Mateer

  • Factors Associated With Virtual Reality Sickness in Head-Mounted Displays: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Dimitrios Saredakis;Ancret Szpak;Brandon Birckhead;Hannah A. D. Keage

  • Development and evaluation of low cost game-based balance rehabilitation tool using the microsoft kinect sensor

    Belinda Lange;Chien-Yen Chang;Evan Suma;Bradley Newman

  • SimSensei kiosk: a virtual human interviewer for healthcare decision support

    David DeVault;Ron Artstein;Grace Benn;Teresa Dey

  • The Virtual Classroom: A Virtual Reality Environment for the Assessment and Rehabilitation of Attention Deficits

    A.A. Rizzo;J.G. Buckwalter;T. Bowerly;C. Van Der Zaag

  • A Randomized, Double-Blind Evaluation of d-Cycloserine or Alprazolam Combined With Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans

    Barbara Olasov Rothbaum;Matthew Price;Tanja Jovanovic;Seth D. Norrholm

  • Effectiveness of Virtual Reality for Pediatric Pain Distraction during IV Placement

    Jeffrey I Gold;Seok Hyeon Kim;Alexis J Kant;Michael H Joseph

  • The Distress Analysis Interview Corpus of human and computer interviews

    Jonathan Gratch;Ron Artstein;Gale Lucas;Giota stratou

  • Virtual Reality in Brain Damage Rehabilitation: Review

    F. David Rose;Barbara. M. Brooks;Albert A. Rizzo

  • Sex differences in mental rotation and spatial rotation in a virtual environment.

    Thomas D. Parsons;Peter Larson;Kris Kratz;Marcus Thiebaux

  • Emerging treatments for PTSD

    Judith Cukor;Josh Spitalnick;JoAnn Difede;Albert Rizzo

  • Towards pervasive physical rehabilitation using Microsoft Kinect

    Chien-Yen Chang;Belinda Lange;Mi Zhang;Sebastian Koenig

  • Recommendations for Methodology of Virtual Reality Clinical Trials in Health Care by an International Working Group: Iterative Study

    Brandon Birckhead;Carine Khalil;Carine Khalil;Xiaoyu Liu;Xiaoyu Liu;Samuel Conovitz;Samuel Conovitz

  • A virtual reality scenario for all seasons: the virtual classroom.

    Albert A Rizzo;Todd Bowerly;J Galen Buckwalter;Dean Klimchuk

  • A controlled clinical comparison of attention performance in children with ADHD in a virtual reality classroom compared to standard neuropsychological methods.

    Thomas D. Parsons;Todd Bowerly;J. Galen Buckwalter;Albert A. Rizzo

  • Virtual reality exposure therapy using a virtual Iraq: case report.

    Maryrose Gerardi;Barbara Olasov Rothbaum;Kerry Ressler;Mary Heekin

  • Is clinical virtual reality ready for primetime

    Albert “Skip” Rizzo;Sebastian Thomas Koenig

  • Virtual reality and cognitive assessment and rehabilitation: the state of the art.

    A A Rizzo;J G Buckwalter

  • Effectiveness of virtual reality for pediatric pain distraction during IV placement

    S. Kim;J. Gold;A. Rizzo;A. Kant

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas D. Parsons
Thomas D. Parsons University of North Texas
Barbara O. Rothbaum
Barbara O. Rothbaum Emory University
JoAnn Difede
JoAnn Difede Cornell University
Jonathan Gratch
Jonathan Gratch University of Southern California
Ulrich Neumann
Ulrich Neumann University of Southern California
Louis-Philippe Morency
Louis-Philippe Morency Carnegie Mellon University
Carolee J. Winstein
Carolee J. Winstein University of Southern California
Mark Bolas
Mark Bolas Microsoft (United States)
David Traum
David Traum University of Southern California

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