KENNESAW, Ga., July 14 -- Kennesaw State University issued the following news release:
Funded by a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation, Lei Zhang, a human-computer
interaction researcher in College of Computing and Software Engineering, is building a virtual reality system that lets bereaved parents meet, share memories,
and process grief together in a shared immersive digital space, inspired by his own
experiences losing a child to cancer.
"When a child is being treated for cancer, parents often live at the hospital for an extended period of time, building close bonds with the medical team and other parents going through the same thing," Zhang said. "But when the treatment fails and the child dies, parents go back home to...