A tutorial proposal, “Embodied Interactive Virtual Characters for Human-Subjects Studies,” has been accepted at IEEE VR 2020.
SREAL members (Kangsoo Kim, Nahal Norouzi, and Austin Erickson) will be presenting the tutorial on March 22, 2020 in Atlanta, GA.
The tutorial will cover prior works and recent trends in interactive virtual character research, and provide instructions for developing a simple interactive virtual character that can be controlled by conventional 2D user interfaces using Unity, considering human-in-the-loop studies.

Tutorial Link

Congratulations to Nahal Norouzi, who was accepted to present at the doctoral consortium at IEEE VR 2020. She will be presenting a paper outlining her past work on virtual animals, as well as avenues for future research.

Congratulations, Nahal and Austin for your Award on “Effects of Shared Gaze Parameters on Visual Target Identification Task Performance in Augmented Reality”.

Congratulations Jonathan! Well deserved and keep up the great work.

NACME SCHOLARSHIPS

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Scholarship Eligibility

To be eligible for any NACME administered scholarship students must be either be a high school senior applying to an engineering or computer science program at a NACME Partner Institution, or be currently matriculating in an engineering or computer science program at a NACME Partner Institution, a US citizen or permanent resident, and have a minimum high school cumulative GPA of 3.0 or undergraduate cumulative GPA of 2.8 (some named scholarships may have higher GPA requirements). NACME’s mission is to increase representation of Black/African American, Latinx/Hispanic-American and Native/American Indian in the fields of engineering and computer science.

Congratulations to Austin Erickson, who was accepted to present at the doctoral consortium at ISMAR 2019. He will be presenting a paper outlining his past work on thermal infrared, UV, and multi-spectral vision, as well as avenues for future investigation.

The paper can be found Here.

Three full papers got accepted at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2019. The papers will be updated in our publication page soon.

• Kendra Richards, Nikhil Mahalanobis, Kangsoo Kim, Ryan Schubert, Myungho Lee, Salam Daher, Nahal Norouzi, Jason Hochreiter, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch, “Analysis of Peripheral Vision and Vibrotactile Feedback During Proximal Search Tasks in Augmented Reality,” accepted at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2019.
• Kangsoo Kim, Austin Erickson, Alexis Lambert, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch, “Effects of Dark Mode Visualization on Visual Fatigue and Acuity in Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays,” accepted at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2019.
• Nahal Norouzi, Austin Erickson, Kangsoo Kim, Ryan Schubert, Joseph LaViola, Gerd Bruder, Greg Welch, “Effects of Shared Gaze Parameters on Visual Target Identification Task Performance in Augmented Reality,” accepted at the ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) 2019.

Congratulations to Jason Hochreiter, who graduated on August 3, 2019 with his PhD in Computer Science.

We thought you might enjoy seeing a glimpse of the research being conducted in UCF’s SREAL Lab. This research is being supported by National Science Foundation grants: 1560302 (UCF) and 1800961 (Collaborative with 1800947 to the University of Florida, and 1800922 to Stanford University) and the Office of Naval Research: N00014-18-1-2927.

Congratulations! He will be presenting the recently accepted conference paper below, as well as presenting a poster of his work at the conference.

Austin Erickson, Ryan Schubert, Kangsoo Kim, Gerd Bruder, Gregory F. Welch, “Is It Cold in Here or Is It Just Me? Analysis of Augmented Reality Temperature Visualization for Computer-Mediated Thermoception,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 9 pages, 2019.

Four full papers are submitted to ACM SUI 2019 and now under review.