Congratulations, Kangsoo.
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Sungchul Jung completes Ph.D., with dissertation: Personalized Digital Body: Enhancing Body Ownership and Spatial Presence in Virtual Reality
Abstract:
A person’s sense of acceptance of a virtual body as his or her own is generally called virtual body ownership. Having such a mental model of one’s own body transferred to a virtual human surrogate is known to play a critical role in one’s sense of presence in a virtual environment. The focus of this dissertation is on top-down processing based on visually personalized body cues.
Congratulations to Sungchul for completing your Ph.D.
Sungchul will graduate from the University of Central Florida on May 3rd, 2018.
Dr. Welch awarded IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award
Salam Daher chosen as NCWIT 2018 Collegiate Finalist
Salam Daher was selected as a finalist for the NCWIT Collegiate Award. They had 147 total applicants from 91 two and four year institutions. They picked 60 in the 1st round in December, and then from those 60 they picked 18 finalists (6 winners and 12 honorable mentions) for the finalist round. Salam is one of those 18. The names of the 6 winners and the 12 honorable mentions will be announced at a later date. The awards ceremony will be held in Grapevine TX in May.
Congratulations Salam!
Myungho and Jason chosen for Doctoral Consortium @ IEEE VR 2018
Both Myungho Lee and Jason Hochreiter were chosen for the IEEE VR 2018 Doctoral Consortium. This is an honor and includes travel and conference registration support.
Sungchul Jung was awarded a “Dissertation Completion Fellowship” for Spring 2018.
The Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship aims to increase dissertation completion among doctoral students. This award is intended for students in their final semester of graduate education who have a realistic expectation of degree completion in the Spring semester. The award will allow students to forgo their non-research related employment obligations to concentrate on completing their dissertation.
Each college nominates students based on their demonstrated ability to complete high quality dissertation research and the assurance that the awarding of the fellowship will allow the student(s) to complete their dissertation and graduate at the end of the term.
Congratulations to Sungchul Jung!
Antoniya Petkova received her Ph.D. at the UCF Fall 2017 Commencement
Congratulations to Antoniya Petkova!
Behnaz Nojavanasghari received her Ph.D. at the UCF Fall 2017 Commencement
Congratulations to Behnaz Nojavanasghari!
Dr. Welch interviewed for National Defense: NDIA’s Business and Technology Magazine.
“The Future of Training and Simulation: Preparing Warfighters for Tomorrow’s Battlefields” written by Vinienne Machi was published in the National Defense: NDIA’s Business and Technology Magazine, December 2017. For more information you can find the article here. Much of Dr. Welch’s work in training and simulation is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.
Kangsoo Kim awarded Best Student Paper at VRST
Kangsoo Kim awarded Best Student Paper for “Exploring the effects of observed physicality conflicts on real-virtual human interaction in augmented reality,” at VRST 2017 in Gothenberg, Sweden, November 8–10 2017.
2017
Exploring the Effects of Observed Physicality Conflicts on Real-virtual Human Interaction in Augmented Reality Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, pp. 31:1–31:7, ACM, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5548-3.
