Advancing Digital Access to Physical Therapy via Virtual and Extended Reality Technology: Prototype Development and Usability Evaluation

Victoria Lynn Tiase   ^{1 *} , PhD, RN ;   Julie M Fritz   ^{2 *} , PhD, PT ;   Jesse Ferraro   ^{3 *} , MFA ;   Gregory Bayles   ⁴ , MA ;   Ahmad Alsaleem   ⁵ , PhD ;   Guilherme Del Fiol   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Kensaku Kawamoto   ^{1 *} , MD, PhD ;   Darrel Brodke   ^{6 *} , MD ;   Brook Martin   ^{6 *} , MPH, PhD ;   Roger Altizer   ^{3 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

² Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

³ Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

⁴ Division of Games, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

⁵ School of Computing, College of Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

⁶ Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

*these authors contributed equally