News

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

April 8, 2009
Dr. LaViola and colleagues presented a full day course at ACM CHI 2009 entitled, "3D User Interfaces: Design, Implementation, Usability."

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.

February 13, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. LaViola on winning a prestigious NSF Career Award for his proposal on mathematical sketching.

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.

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.

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.

December 5, 2008
Dr. LaViola gave an invited colloquium on "3D Spatial Interfaces and Video Games" at Washington University in St. Louis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.