Joseph J. LaViola Jr.

Joseph J. LaViola Jr. is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida as well as an adjunct assistant research professor in the Computer Science Department at Brown University. His primary research interests include pen-based interactive computing, 3D interaction techniques, predictive motion tracking, multimodal interaction in virtual environments, and user interface evaluation. His work has appeared in journals such as IEEE PAMI, Presence, and IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, and he has presented research at conferences including ACM SIGGRAPH, the ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, IEEE Virtual Reality, and Eurographics Virtual Environments. He has also co-authored "3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice," the first comprehensive book on 3D user interfaces. In 2009, he won an NSF Career Award to conduct research on mathematical sketching. Joseph received a Sc.M. in Computer Science in 2000, a Sc.M. in Applied Mathematics in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2005 from Brown University.