News
2013
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April 29, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for the UCF Teaching Incentive Program award
for 2013.
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April 23, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning the UCF Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning award for 2013.
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April 22, 2013
Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper,
"Evaluating Performance Benefits of Head Tracking in Modern Video Games",
accepted to the 2013 ACM
Symposium on Spatial User Interaction.
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March 15, 2013
Congratulations to Bo Kang, Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola for having their
paper, "User Perceptions of Drawing Logic Diagrams with Pen-Centric User
Interfaces" accepted to
Graphics
Interface 2013.
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March 12, 2013
Congratulations to Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola for having their paper,
"Plugging In and Into Code Bubbles: The Code Bubbles Architecture"
accepted to Software: Practice and
Experience. This was a joint work with Dr.
Steven Reiss at Brown
University.
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March 8, 2013
Dr. LaViola has been named an associate editor for
ACM Transactions on
Interactive Intelligent Systems.
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March 6, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning the 2013-2014 Deans Research
Professorship Award.
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March 2, 2013
Congratulations to Chris Zorn, Chad Wingrave, Miko Charbonneau, and Dr.
LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring Minecraft as a Conduit for
Increasing Interest in Programming" accepted to the
2013 Foundations of
Digital Games conference.
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February 14, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Major Research Equipment
Award. These funds will be used to buy a robotic arm and four humanoid
robots.
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February 5, 2013
Dr. LaViola has joined the advisory board for the
Formative
Assessment with Computational Technologies (FACT) research project at
Arizona State University.
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February 4, 2013
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being awarded the UCF College of
Engineering and Computer Science Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award.
2012
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December 20, 2012
Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil, Seng Lee Koh, and Dr. LaViola for having
their paper, "Exploring 3D Gesture Metaphors for Interaction with Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles" accepted to the 2013
ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
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December 12, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having, "Creating and Analyzing
Stereoscopic 3D Game Interfaces", accepted as a full paper to
ACM
CHI 2013. This is joint work with Jonas Schild, Liane Bölicke, and
Maic Masuch from the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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October 16, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named the CAE Link professor
in the EECS department at UCF.
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October 11, 2012
Congratulations to Salman Cheema and Dr. LaViola for having their
paper, "3D Gesture Classification With Linear Acceleration and Angular
Velocity Sensing Devices for Video Games" accepted to the
Entertainment Computing journal.
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October 11, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having his paper, "Exploring the
Trade-off Between Accuracy and Observational Latency in Action
Recognition", accepted to the International Journal of Computer
Vision (this is joint work with Dr. Marshall Tappen and his group).
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October 11, 2012
Congratulations to Prince Gupta and Dr. LaViola (with Dr. Neils da
Vitoria Lobo), for having their paper, "Markerless Tracking And
Gesture Recognition Using Polar Correlation of Camera Optical Flow"
accepted to the Machine Vision and Applications journal.
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August 10, 2012
Dr. LaViola was a panelist at ACM SIGGRAPH
2012 on the
future
of video game motion controllers.
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July 18, 2012
Dr. LaViola gave a talk at the 2012
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit entitled,
"QuickDraw:
Improving Drawing for Geometric Diagrams."
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May 25, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.
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May 15, 2012
Dr. LaViola was interviewed for an
article
in New Scientist.
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May 3, 2012
Dr. LaViola will be a panelist at SIGGRAPH 2012 in the panel,
"The
Battle for the Future of Motion-Controlled Gaming".
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April 25, 2012
Congratulations to Travis Cossairt and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "SetPad: A
Sketch-Based Tool For Exploring Discrete Math Set Problems", accepted to the
2012
Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling.
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March 30, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Research Incentive Award for 2012.
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March 29, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named an IEEE
Senior Member.
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March 10, 2012
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an IEEE service award for co-chairing the
IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces
in 2011 and 2012.
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March 2, 2012
Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper,
"Evaluating User Performance in 3D Stereo and Motion Enabled Video Games"
accepted to Foundations of Digital Games 2012.
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January 26, 2012
Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having a technical demo accepted to
ICSE 2012. This work was done in collaboration
with Brown University.
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January 24, 2012
The ISUE lab particpated in the Orlando Science Center's
Otronicon and was written up in the
Central
Florida Future.
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January 3, 2012
Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having two papers accepted to the
IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 conference.
These papers will be published in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics.
2011
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December 20, 2011
Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having two papers accepted to the
2012 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User
Interfaces.
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December 17, 2011
Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having two papers accepted to
ACM CHI 2012.
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November 11, 2011
Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau, Andrew Miller, and Dr. LaViola for winning the
best paper award at the 8th International Conference on
Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology for their paper,
"Teach
Me to Dance: Exploring Player Experience and Performance in Full Body Dance Games".
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November 1, 2011
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named an ACM senior member.
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October 17, 2011
Congratulations to Sarah Buchanan, Brandon Ochs, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper,
"CSTutor: A Pen-Based Tutor for Data Structure Visualization," accepted to SIGCSE 2012.
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August 31, 2011
Members of the ISUE Lab were featured in an article on
Microsoft's
Coding4Fun website!
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August 7, 2011
Congratulations to Sarah Buchanan, Brandon Ochs, and Dr.
LaViola for winning best poster at the
8th
Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces
and Modeling (SBIM 2011).
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August 2, 2011
Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau, Andrew Miller, and
Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Teach Me to Dance:
Exploring Player Experience and Performance in Full Body
Dance Games" accepted to the
8th Conference on
Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
(ACE 2011).
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July 27, 2011
Members of the ISUE Lab were featured in Sony's
launch
video for Move.me.
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June 16, 2011
Congratulations to Jared Bott, Daniel Gabriele, and Dr.
LaViola for having a paper accepted to Eurographics/ACM
Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling
(SBIM 2011). Also, congratulations to Sarah Buchanan,
Brandon Ochs, and Dr. LaViola for having a poster
accepted to SBIM 2011.
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May 24, 2011
Dr. LaViola gave an invited talk at Microsoft Research
entitled,
"Towards
Intelligent Tutoring with Mathematical Sketching."
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May 19, 2011
Be sure to check out the ISUE Lab's
Youtube
channel for our latest videos.
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May 2, 2011
Dr. LaViola and
Dr.
Daniel Keefe (University of Minnesota) will be giving
a course at ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 on 3D Spatial Interaction:
Applications for Art, Design, and Science.
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March 10, 2011
The ISUE Lab has been selected to take part in Sony's Key
Researchers Early-Product Seeding Program. The lab will
be working to make innovative Sony Move applications on
the PC.
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March 1, 2011
Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau and Salman Cheema who
will be interning at Microsoft and Microsoft Research this
summer.
2010
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December 15, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola and Tad Litwiller for
having their paper,
"Evaluating
the Benefits of 3D Stereo in Modern Video Games",
accepted to ACM CHI 2011.
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October 8, 2010
Congratulations to Andrew Miller as a paper he worked on,
"VizWiz:
nearly real-time answers to visual questions" was
selected as best paper at UIST 2010!
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September 19, 2010
Dr. LaViola and the IS&UE lab received a grant from US
Army RDECOM to develop full body interfaces for
navigation and communication in virtual environments.
Chad Wingrave is the Co-PI on this project.
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September 13, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an NSF award
with Brown University entitled, "A
Working Set Approach to Integrated Development Environments".
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August 8, 2010
Dr. LaViola has been appointed the SAIC Faculty Fellow in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCF.
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July 28, 2010
Dr. LaViola has been named an associate editor of the International Journal of
Human-Computer Studies.
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June 8, 2010
Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola's paper entitled, "A
Pen-Based Tool
for Visualizing Vector Mathematics" was presented at SBIM
2010.
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June 6, 2010
Special thanks goes to NVIDIA Research for their equipment donation to the
ISUE lab. NVIDIA donated several graphics cards and 3D Vision Kits to assist
us in our 3D stereo interface research.
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May 19, 2010
Dr. LaViola and Dr. Richard Marks (Sony Computer Entertainment America)
will be giving a course at SIGGRAPH on July 27th on 3D User Interfaces with
Video Game Motion Controllers.
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April 22, 2010
Dr. LaViola wrote
an
article for Gamasutra on 3D interaction in video games.
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April 8, 2010
Watch a video of Dr.
LaViola talking about mathematical sketching.
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April 8, 2010
Juliet Norton, Dr. Wingrave, and Dr. LaViola's paper entitled,
"Exploring
Strategies and Guidelines for Developing Full Body Video
Game Interfaces" was accepted to the 2010 Foundations of
Digital Games conference.
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March 28, 2010
Dr. LaViola and Salman Cheema's paper entitled,
"Applying
Mathematical Sketching to Sketch-Based Physics Tutoring
Software" was accepted to Smart Graphics 2010.
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February 4, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being awarded a UCF College of Engineering and
Computer Science Distinguished Researcher Award.
2009
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December 17, 2009
Congratulations to the IS&UE lab for having a paper and a poster accepted to IEEE
3DUI 2010.
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December 17, 2009
Dr. LaViola has papers accepted to both CHI 2010 and ICSE 2010 on the Code Bubbles project.
This work was done in collaboration with Brown University.
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December 3, 2009
Dr. LaViola and Salman Cheema's paper, entitled "Towards Intelligent Motion Inferencing
In Mathematical Sketching" was accepted to IUI 2010.
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November 9, 2009
Congratulations to the IS&UE Lab for having three papers accepted to IEEE Virtual
Reality 2010, to be presented in March 2010.
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August 8, 2009
The ISUE Lab had a busy week at SIGGRAPH. Dr. LaViola, Diane Marinkas, and Yiyan Xiong all
presented papers at SBIM 2009 while Emiko Charbonneau and Paul Varcholik presented game papers at
SIGGRAPH. Dr. LaViola also gave a talk on 3D user interfaces in video games at the Interaction: Interfaces,
Algorithms, and Applications SIGGRAPH course.
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July 24, 2009
IS&UE lab members Mike Hoffman and Tad Litwiller developed the turntable controller for the
Sultans of Scratch video game
created at the Florida Interactive Entertainment
Academy.
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July 10, 2009
Drs. LaViola and Wingrave have won a NSF Creative IT award for their proposal entitled,
"Major:
Enhancing Creativity and Authoring in STEM Education-Based Virtual Worlds through Concept-Oriented Design".
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May 1, 2009
Dr. LaViola and the IS&UE lab received a grant from RDECOM-STC
to develop prototyping tools for unobtrusive mood assessment.
Chad Wingrave
is the Co-PI on this project.
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April 28, 2009
Jared Bott
presented his paper on "Exploring
3D Gestural Interfaces for Music Creation in Video Games" at the
Fourth
International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games.
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April 8, 2009
Dr. LaViola and colleagues presented a full day course at ACM CHI 2009 entitled,
"3D User
Interfaces: Design, Implementation, Usability."
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April 8, 2009
Two IS&UE lab papers on 3D Spatial Interfaces in Video Games have been accepted to
Sandbox 2009: ACM
SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings.
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February 13, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola on winning a prestigious
NSF
Career Award for his proposal on mathematical sketching.
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January 30, 2009
Two IS&UE lab papers on 3D Spatial Interfaces in Video Games have been
accepted to the Fourth
International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games.
2008
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December 12, 2008
Dr. LaViola and Brian Williamson's paper entitled,
"GestureBar: Improving the
Approachability of Gesture-based Interfaces" was accepted to
CHI 2009. This was joint
work with the Microsoft Center for
Research in Pen-Centric Computing.
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December 10, 2008
Dr. LaViola's presented his paper entitled,
"Online
Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions with Support for Matrices"
at the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Tampa, Florida. This
was joint work with the Microsoft Center for
Research in Pen-Centric Computing.
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December 5, 2008
Dr. LaViola gave an invited colloquium on "3D Spatial Interfaces and Video Games"
at Washington University in St. Louis.
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August 29, 2008
Dr. LaViola's paper entitled "MathPaper: Mathematical Sketching with Fluid Support for
Interactive Computation" was awarded the best paper at the 9th
International Symposium on Smart Graphics in Rennes, France. This was
joint work with the Microsoft Center for
Research in Pen-Centric Computing.
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August 17, 2008
The IS&UE's lab work on 3D spatial interfaces for video games has
been featured on Microsoft's
Channel 10.
Check out Laura Foy's interview.
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July 26, 2008
Dr. LaViola and the IS&UE Lab received grants from IARPA to work on
the Analyst Workstation of the Future and from SAIC to work on DARPA's
Deep Green project.
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June 24, 2008
Over the past month, the IS&UE Lab has presented four paper at
three different conferences including Graphics Interface 2008, the
2008 Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, and the 2008
Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling.
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June 24, 2008
Dr. LaViola and Paul Varcholik have been invited to the 2008
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. They will be giving demos of
the IS&UE Lab's 3DUI gaming work.
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June 24, 2008
Dr. LaViola will be giving a Birds of a Feather Session on 3D Spatial
Interfaces in Video Games at SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles. If you are
going to SIGGRAPH and would like to particiate, contact him for more
information.
