Welcome to the COPES Blog

This blog will document the development of COPES, our AI-powered virtual-reality platform for clinical education and procedural training.

We will use this space to share:

• major platform milestones;
• research and evaluation updates;
• new clinical scenarios and procedures;
• technical integration notes across AI, VR, haptics, and analytics;
• selected lessons learned from building the platform.

Because the website uses Jekyll, every blog post is simply a Markdown file stored in the _posts directory.

Writing a new post

Create a new file using this naming format:

YYYY-MM-DD-title-of-the-post.md

Then add front matter at the top:

---
title: "Your Post Title"
date: 2026-10-01
author: "Your Name"
category: "Research"
excerpt_text: "One-sentence summary of the post."
---

Everything below the front matter can be written in normal Markdown.