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.

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.”

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.

Connor D. Flick; Courtney J. Harris; Nikolas T. Yonkers; Nahal Norouzi; Austin Erickson; Zubin Choudhary; Matt Gottsacker; Gerd Bruder; Gregory F. Welch. “Trade-offs in Augmented Reality User Interfaces for Controlling a Smart Environment” In: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI ’21), pp. 1-11, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021

https://sreal.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SUI2021_REU_Paper.pdf 

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

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

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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)

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.