Peek behind the paper: Developing virtual and augmented reality applications for STEM education

Chris Hemme is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Rhode Island (URI; RI, USA) College of Pharmacy, where he runs a data science core facility that focuses on biomedical data science. He is also the Director of the Rhode Island Institutional Development Award Network for Biomedical Research Excellence (RI-INBRE) within the Molecular Informatics Core (MIC). In this ‘Peek behind the paper’, Hemme discusses his recently published paper on developing an app to teach concepts in biomedical sciences, the challenges of designing them and the potential of virtual and augmented reality...