About Us

VOISS and iKNOW are development and implementation research projects through the University of Kansas. The iKNOW project is supporting development of VOISS. Students will be able to move through multiple school-based environments (e.g., classroom, bus, hallways) while being immersed in social stories. Students will interact with avatars in social situations where they need to problem solve interactions. As they react and respond to situations, VOISS offers explicit feedback on student decisions, reflecting on the appropriateness of the decision and how to potentially problem solve in the future. VOISS is designed for iPads, Google Chromebooks, laptops, and wearable virtual reality devices.

In addition to the student virtual world, VOISS also has an educator professional learning website that supports the implementation of virtual reality in the classroom and the student generalization of virtually learned social competency skills to the physical world. VOISS Advisor will advise educators and families on how best to use extended reality experiences and how to support students to transfer the skills they learn from technology into the real world.