College of the Arts
Markus Santoso Research Group (Digital Worlds Institute)
Led by Markus Santoso · Digital Worlds Institute
What we study
Dr. Santoso explores immersive technologies, including VR, AR and the metaverse, to help people learn skills and knowledge. His UF work covers XR for Parkinson's disease and Tourette syndrome, VR and AI patients for dental training, and blockchain, where he is co-PI of the UF Blockchain Lab.
What working here is like
- Building & testing
- Computational
- Human participants
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
VR and AI training for dental students
A VR dental implant simulation and an AI virtual patient for practicing communication.
XR for Parkinson's disease and Tourette syndrome
Using extended reality to support people with movement disorders.
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UF Blockchain Lab
Co-leads work with UF's blockchain lab on the Algorand blockchain network and Web3 technologies, exploring how they can be applied in education and research.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Immersive Learning With AI‐Enhanced Virtual Dental Standardized Patient
2025 · Journal of Dental Education
Looks at using an AI-enhanced virtual patient to help dental students practice communication.
- Evaluating augmented reality e-typodont to improve a patient’s dental implant health literacy
2023 · Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
How to reach out
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