Neighborhood Physical Disorder

2023
captured 3d model of boarded up house

Over the past year we’ve evaluated several approaches to learn how we can best create photorealistic outdoor neighborhood environments for use in VR-based experiments.

virtual street VR environment
virtual street VR environment

Photogrammetry as well as spaces created from 360 photography are being used to recreate open spaces as well as typical neighborhood street objects, plants, etc.

virtual campus courtyard
virtual campus courtyard

For the first semester of the project, a campus outdoor courtyard was used to compare different processes for capturing and modeling buildings, objects, and plants.

virtual grass and trees in courtyard
virtual grass and trees in courtyard

Dr. Plascak’s research “seeks to better understand cancer disparities in race-ethnicity, geography and other social factors in order to inform feasible practices and policies that can lead to greater health equity” and investigates “relationships among various social and environmental characteristics on cancer outcomes, as well as the psychologic and genomic mechanisms that might be involved within these pathways.”

Contributers / Project Team:

  • PI: Jesse Plascak, PhD, Cancer Prevention and Control, College of Medicine
  • Co-Investigator: Matthew Lewis, PhD, Design/ACCAD/TDAI

Virtual Environments / VR:

  • Emily Subr, Graduate Student, Design (2022-2023)
  • Joshua Antolovic, Graduate Student, Design (2023-2024)

Project support:

3d architecture collaboration geometry spaces virtual vr xr 360