Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Congratulations to Aaron Kotranza and Ethan Blackwelder!
Hearty congratulations to Aaron Kotranza for successfully defending for his Doctoral (Ph.D.) degree and Ethan Blackwelder for graduating with a Master's degree . VERG wishes you both all the very best in all your future endeavors!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Article about Hevil Shah and VPF on the MCG portal
Check out the latest article about Virtual People Factory and Hevil Shah's prize-winning "Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of an Online Virtual Patient System to Teach Interviewing Skills to First-Year Medical Students" poster here- https://my.mcg.edu/portal/page/portal/News/archive/2009/Medical%20student%20places%20first%20for%20simulation%20research
You can check out the poster here - http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/publications.php [under Medical Presentations]
You can check out the poster here - http://verg.cise.ufl.edu/publications.php [under Medical Presentations]
Monday, August 10, 2009
Congrats to Dr.Lok
Congratulations to Dr. and Mrs.Lok for being blessed with a daughter and a son at 8:35 pm on July 25th. Hearty wishes from everybody at VERG and to a lifetime of happiness and prosperity to the kids.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Congratulations to Hevil Shah and team
Congratulations to Hevil Shah and team for winning the first prize in the Educational Programs category at the 2009 National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students in Kansas City, for the poster presentation on a "Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of an Online Virtual Patient System to Teach Interviewing Skills to First-Year Medical Students".
Thursday, July 2, 2009
More articles of Mixed Reality Humans
Some more news articles about Mixed-reality Humans.....
Communications of the ACM
The Alligator
ArtificiaI Intelligence Bits
Emedist - Medical News
RedOrbit Knowledge Network
HandsNet
M.D. Connector
Gator Country-- Gator Beat
Monday, June 29, 2009
Mixed Reality Humans in the News
Articles about the mixed reality human breast exam have appeared in:
ABC News On-Campus
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/campuschatter/2009/06/for-medical-students-at-the-university-of-floridas-college-of-medicine-learning-just-became-a-little-more-virtual-in-a-coll.html>
Just A Theory
<http://justatheory.co.uk/2009/06/24/mixed-reality-helps-train-doctors/>
ABC News On-Campus
<http://blogs.abcnews.com/campuschatter/2009/06/for-medical-students-at-the-university-of-floridas-college-of-medicine-learning-just-became-a-little-more-virtual-in-a-coll.html>
Just A Theory
<http://justatheory.co.uk/2009/06/24/mixed-reality-helps-train-doctors/>
The UF News press release has also been picked up by:
Science Daily
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623143054.htm>
PhysOrg <http://www.physorg.com/news164989712.html>
First Science
<http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/breaking-news-all-topics/mixed-reality-human-helps-medical-students-learn-to-do-intimate-exams-page-1-1_65847.html>
AAAS EurekAlert!
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uof-rh062309.php>
Science Codex
<http://www.sciencecodex.com/mixed_reality_human_helps_medical_students_learn_to_do_intimate_exams>
TMCnet
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-mixed-reality-human-helps-medical-students-learn-do-/2009/06/23/4240753.htm>
and more to come...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Best wishes to Andrew
Thanks to Dr. Andrew Raij for his contributions over the past 5 years at UF with VERG. Andrew leaves today for Memphis to start his post-doc with Dr. Santosh Kumar at the University of Memphis. Andrew, please keep us posted on all your successes!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Mixed Reality Humans press release
Congratulations to Aaron's work being publicized by UF News.
http://news.ufl.edu/2009/06/23/mixed-reality-human-multimedia/
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Rossen
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Rossen. Liz and Brent, it was a fantastic wedding and to a lifetime of happy memories together.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
IVA 2009 papers accepted!
Congratulations to Brent Rossen for having his paper on Virtual People Factory accepted as a short paper at the Intelligent Virtual Agents conference 2009. Brent will be presenting his work in the Amsterdam, September 14-16th.
Also congratulations to Joon Chuah for having his poster accepted at IVA 2009. Brent will be presenting his work at the conference.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Welcome to Ethan Blackwelder
Welcome to Ethan Blackwelder to VERG. Ethan is a Masters in Computer Science student who will be working with us this summer.
Congratulations to Professor John Quarles
[5/26/09] Congratulations to Dr. John Quarles for accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Professor Quarles and his wife Keira will be moving out to San Antonio in August.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Congratulations to Hevil Shah
Congratulations to Hevil Shah for having his poster "Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of an Online Virtual Patient System to Teach Interviewing Skills to First-Year Medical Students" accepted for presentation at the 2009 National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students, July 30th-August 1st, 2009, Kansas City, KS.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
May News
[2nd] Congratulations to Dr. John Quarles and Dr. Andrew Raij for graduating with their Ph.D.s!
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Raij for accepting a Post-Doctoral position with Professor Santosh Kumar at the University of Memphis
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Raij for accepting a Post-Doctoral position with Professor Santosh Kumar at the University of Memphis
April News
[28th-30th] Best wishes to Dr.Angela Gucwa, as she presents "The Use of a Mixed Reality Breast Simulator with an Innovative Feedback System (Touch Map) to Enhance Breast Examination Skills " at Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah!
March News
[14th-15th] Congratulations to Aaron Kotranza for having his paper "Virtual Multi-Tools for Hand and Tool-Based Interaction with Life-Size Virtual Human Agents " accepted for publication in Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2009,Lafayette, LA!
[14th-18th] Congratulations to Andrew Raij for having his paper "Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective-Taking," accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2009,Lafayette, LA!
[14th-18th] Congratulations to Aaron Kotranza for having his paper "Virtual Humans That Touch Back: Enhancing Nonverbal Communication with Virtual Humans through Bidirectional Touch," accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2009,Lafayette, LA!2008
Congratulations to Aaron Kotranza for having his paper "Mixed Reality Humans: Evaluating Behavior, Usability, and Acceptability," accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
August News
[25th] Welcome to Dr. Yong Ho Hwang (visiting post-doctoral fellow, Chung-Ang University - Korea), Joon Hao Chuah (Ph.D. student), and Lu (Lois) Cao (M.S. student) to the Virtual Experiences Research Group!
[9th] Congratulations to Kyle Johnsen for graduating with his Ph.D.! Dr. Johnsen will be an assistant professor at the University of Georgia starting in the fall.
[4th] Congratulations to Drs. Robinson, Lind, and Lok for receiving a National Institute of Health R56 grant for the virtual patients work titled "Pain Treatment Decisions: Influence of Sex, Race, and Age"!June News
[11th] Congratulations to John Quarles for having his paper "A Mixed Reality System for Enabling Collocated After Action Review" accepted to the 7th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality - ISMAR 2008 in Cambridge, UK!
[10th] Congratulations to Drs. Ferdig, Lind, and Lok for receiving a National Science Foundation HCC-Medium grant for the virtual patients work titled "HCC-Medium: Mixed Reality Virtual Humans for Training"!May News
[19th] Congratulations to Brent Rossen for having his paper "Virtual Humans Elicit Skin-Tone Bias Consistent with Real-World Skin-Tone Biases" accepted to the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2008 Conference in Tokyo, Japan!
[19th] Congratulations to Harold Rodriguez for having his paper "Audio Analysis of Human/Virtual-Human Interaction" accepted to the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2008 Conference in Tokyo, Japan!
[17th] Congratulations to Kyle Johnsen and Erin Doyle on their engagement this past weekend!
[9th] Congratulations to Drs. Cendan and Lok for receiving a National Institute of Health R03 grant for the virtual patients work titled "Immersive Virtual Patients with Abnormal Clinical Conditions for Medical Student Training"!
[2nd] Congratulations to Harold Rodriguez on graduating with his BS in both Computer Science and Physics!April News
[30th] Congratulations to Kyle Johnsen for accepting a tenure-track assistant professor position from the University of Georgia!
[7th] Best wishes to Andrew Raij, as he gives his job talk at Michigan State University!
[3rd] Thanks to Corey Forbus for all his contributions this past year to the group. Best of luck as he prepares to graduate this year!
[2nd] Congratulations to Brent Rossen and Liz Perez on their engagement this past weekend!
[1st] Congratulations to Drs. Lind, Deladisma, and Lok for receiving a Association for Surgical Education CESERT grant for the virtual patients work titled "The Use of a Virtual Character-Enhanced Simulator to Teach and Assess Breast History and Examination Skills"!
[1st] Best wishes to Andrew Raij, as he gives his job talk at DePaul University!March News
[20th] Best wishes to Andrew Raij, as he gives his job talk at NC State!
[19th] Congratulations to John Quarles for being awarded a prestigious Link Foundation Fellowship (http://www.ist.ucf.edu/link_foundation.htm)! The Link Fellowship provides $25,000 in support to doctoral students in their final year of a Ph.D. program.
[12th] Congratulations to Aaron Kotranza for winning the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 Best Paper Award!
[8th-12th] Congratulations to John Quarles for presenting his papers "Tangible User Interfaces Compensate for Low Spatial Cognition" at IEEE 3D User Interfaces 2008 and "A Mixed Reality Approach for Merging Abstract and Concrete Knowledge at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, in Reno, NV.
Congratulations to Aaron Kotranza for presenting his paper "Virtual Human + Tangible Interface = Mixed Reality Human. An Initial Exploration with a Virtual Breast Exam Patient" at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, in Reno, NV.
Congratulations to Andrew Raij for presenting his paper "An After-Action Review Tool for Human-Virtual Human Experiences" at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, in Reno, NV. (and surviving a laptop crash midway through the talk)
Congratulations to Kyle Johnsen for presenting his paper "An Evaluation of Immersive Displays for Virtual Human Experiences" at IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, in Reno, NV.
[4th] Best wishes to Kyle Johnsen, as he gives his job talk at George Mason University!
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