Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Welcome to Ethan Blackwelder
Congratulations to Professor John Quarles
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Congratulations to Hevil Shah
Sunday, May 17, 2009
May News
Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Raij for accepting a Post-Doctoral position with Professor Santosh Kumar at the University of Memphis
April News
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
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!