The Harvard Ophthalmology Mobility Enhancement and Vision Rehabilitation Center of Excellence aims to help people with low vision safely achieve greater freedom and quality of life by enhancing the use of their residual vision and by improving their ability to navigate on foot or by car. Researchers and clinicians use real-world and virtual environments to investigate, clinically assess, and design rehabilitation devices and training programs for patients with many different types of visual impairments.
The following are a few of the Center's research initiatives:
- Smartphone apps for low vision and wearable electronic visual aids
- Novel assessment and training strategies for brain-based visual impairments
- Virtual reality simulations of daily tasks, such as driving and walking, to objectively assess impairments and response to visual devices and training
- Prism glasses for visual field expansion in hemianopia and other forms of peripheral vision loss
- 256-channel retinal prosthesis