COVID-19 and Visual Disability: Can't Look and Now Don't Touch

John-Ross Rizzo^{1

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4}, Mahya Beheshti^{1

4}, Yi Fang⁵, Steven Flanagan¹, Nicholas A Giudice^{6

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
² Department of Neurology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY.
⁴ Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Eng., NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY.
⁵ Department of Electrical and Computer Eng, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY.
⁶ Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab, The University of Maine, Orono, ME.
⁷ School of Computing and Information Science, The University of Maine, Orono, ME.
⁸ Department of Psychology, The University of Maine, Orono, ME.

John-Ross Rizzo et al. PM R. 2021 Apr.

. 2021 Apr;13(4):415-421.

doi: 10.1002/pmrj.12541. Epub 2021 Feb 12.

John-Ross Rizzo^{1

2

3

4}, Mahya Beheshti^{1

4}, Yi Fang⁵, Steven Flanagan¹, Nicholas A Giudice^{6

7

8}

¹ Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
² Department of Neurology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY.
⁴ Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Eng., NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY.
⁵ Department of Electrical and Computer Eng, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, New York, NY.
⁶ Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab, The University of Maine, Orono, ME.
⁷ School of Computing and Information Science, The University of Maine, Orono, ME.
⁸ Department of Psychology, The University of Maine, Orono, ME.

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