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.

Today, 04 DEC 2020, marked the closing of ICAT-EGVE 2020, chaired by Prof. Gerd Bruder. Fabulous job Gerd!

Congratulations to Undergraduate Research Assistant Jonathan Jules, who has accepted a position at heading to Visual Concepts (2k Games)! He will be starting in January of 2020.

Congratulations! Two of our papers were accepted to the upcoming ICAT-EGVE 2020 conference, which will be held virtually from December 2nd-4th.

Nahal Norouzi, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, Austin Erickson, Zubin Choudhary, Yifan Li, Gregory F. Welch, “A Systematic Literature Review of Embodied Augmented Reality Agents in Head-Mounted Display Environments,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence& Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2020, 11 pages

Austin Erickson, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, Gregory F. Welch, “A Review of Visual Perception Research in Optical See-Through Augmented Reality,” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2020, 8 pages

Congratulations! Our paper was accepted to the ACM conference on spatial user interaction (SUI) 2020.

Austin Erickson, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, Gregory F. Welch, “Exploring the Limitations of Environment Lighting on Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays” Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, 2020, 8 Pages

See the presentation of this work on YouTube: Here

Congratulations! Our paper has been accepted at the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI).

Alexis Lambert, Nahal Norouzi, Gerd Bruder, and Greg Welch, “A Systematic Review of Ten Years of Research on Human Interaction with Social Robots,” International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. (Forthcoming)

Professor Welch was asked about his insights on what keeps him inspired along with 5 other distinguished IEEE members. You can read more in the IEEE Transmitter article, How These Six Technologists Find Inspiration.

Congratulations! Our paper has been accepted at the Special Issue on “Multimodal Interfaces and Communication Cues for Remote Collaboration” of Springer Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI).

• Austin Erickson*, Nahal Norouzi*, Kangsoo Kim, Ryan Schubert, Jonathan Jules, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Gerd Bruder, and Gregory F. Welch, “Sharing Gaze Rays for Visual Target Identification Tasks in Collaborative Augmented Reality,” Springer JMUI: Special Issue on Multimodal Interfaces and Communication Cues for Remote Collaboration, 2020, 10 pages

* equal contributions

Today, undergraduate researcher Jonathan Jules is returning to Microsoft for his second year in their software engineering internship program. He is working in the Security and Compliance organization under Troy Davis and due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak it will be a remote internship, where the hardware necessary will be shipped for work.