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TechConnect 2021 Innovation Award
University of Central Florida Technology #34418 (Intelligent Object Magnification) received a 2021 Innovation Award from TechConnect.
This technology was presented in the AI, Data, and Cyber session. Review panelists included U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Labs at Quantico (portfolio development in AI) and the U.S. Naval War College.
See more on this project at UCF Technology Transfer.
The co-inventors on the associated pending US patent application are Prof. Gerd Bruder, Zubin Choudhary, Dr. Kangsoo Kim, and Dr. Greg Welch.
Dr. Welch is one of 21 Faculty Members Inducted into UCF Scroll and Quill Society
Excerpts from UCF News:
“The Scroll and Quill Society celebrates faculty members who for at least a decade have made scholarly contributions of impact to advance knowledge in their fields, benefit society and distinguish UCF at national or international levels.”
“Gregory Welch, professor, nursing, College of Nursing
Gregory Welch is the AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation and a Pegasus Professor who has acquired nearly $9.6 million in active sponsored research. With a background in computer science, his research entails virtual and augmented reality, human-computer interaction, human motion tracking and human surrogates for training and practice, with a focus on applications such as healthcare and defense. Welch’s work has led to groundbreaking patient simulators for training healthcare practitioners.”
Summer REU project accepted to ACM SUI 2021
Congratulations to our three wonderful REU students who worked with us over the summer! Their work on AR interfaces for controlling IoT devices has been accepted to ACM SUI 2021.
https://sreal.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SUI2021_REU_Paper.pdf
DC Paper Accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2021
With the help of the entire SREAL team, Zubin Choudhary’s doctoral consortium submission was accepted at IEEE ISMAR 2021!
Zubin Choudhary, “Amplifying Realities: Gradual and Seamless Scaling of Visual and Auditory Stimuli in Extended Reality” IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2021 (Forthcoming)
https://sreal.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ISMAR_DC_2021-ver2.pdf
Congratulations Greg! Your article is among the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2019.
Title : Social interaction in augmented reality
Published in: PLOS ONE, May 2019
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216290
Pubmed ID: 31086381
Authors: Mark Roman Miller, Hanseul Jun, Fernanda Herrera, Jacob Yu Villa, Greg Welch, Jeremy N. Bailenson
AR Dark Mode Paper Accepted to ACM TAP
Woohoo! We had a journal paper accepted to ACM transactions on applied perception. This paper was a journal extension of our previous dark mode work in optical see-through AR displays that was previously published at SUI 2019.
Austin Erickson, Kangsoo Kim, Alexis Lambert, Gerd Bruder, Michael P. Browne, Greg Welch, “An Extended Analysis on the Benefits of Dark Mode User Interfaces in Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays” ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2021 (Forthcoming)
Two papers accepted to VAMR 2021!
Congratulations! We had two papers accepted to VAMR 2021. These papers will be presented virtually in July 2021.
Ryan Schubert, Gerd Bruder, Alyssa Tanaka, Francisco Guido-Sanz, Gregory F. Welch, “Mixed Reality Technology Capabilities for Combat-Casualty Handoff Training” In proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality.
Austin Erickson, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, and Gregory F. Welch, “Beyond Visible Light: User and Societal Impacts of Egocentric Multispectral Vision” In proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality.
Nahal Norouzi awarded Best Demo Audience Choice Award for ICAT-EGVE 2020
On 04 DEC 2020, at the closing ceremony for ICAT-EGVE 2020, Nahal Norouzi was awarded the Best Demo Audience Choice Award. Congratulations Nahal! We are very proud of you.
Successful ICAT-EGVE 2020 (Prof. Gerd Bruder)
Today, 04 DEC 2020, marked the closing of ICAT-EGVE 2020, chaired by Prof. Gerd Bruder. Fabulous job Gerd!