VEMI Newsletter, February 2025

VEMI kicked off 2025 with Rapid Research Week, our annual immersive research experience for students. This year, five interdisciplinary teams tackled questions including: How does a lack of vision impact the perceived direction of movement in an AV simulator?; How does anthropomorphism affect etiquette when interfacing with an AI?; and How does gamification of exercise affect cognition (e.g., attention, memory) and fatigue? Teams completed posters to showcase their results, which will be displayed at next month’s UMaine Student Symposium. Shoutout to all the researchers for their hard work and creative thinking!