Joseph J. LaViola Jr.

Assistant Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Affiliated Research Faculty
Institute for Simulation and Training

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-2362

Office: Harris 321
Email: jjl (at) eecs.ucf.edu
Phone: (407)-882-2285
Fax: (407)-823-5419

Curriculum Vitae


I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. My interests include pen-based computing, user interfaces, human motion estimation, virtual reality, and computer graphics. I am also an adjunct assistant professor (Research) in the Brown University Computer Science Department and a member of the Microsoft Center for Research on Pen-Centric Computing.


3DUI Book

Latest News: 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice has been translated into Japanese and Chinese.

Written with my colleagues Doug Bowman (Virginia Tech), Ernst Kruijff (Graz University of Technology), and Ivan Poupyrev (Sony CSL), it is the first comprehensive text/reference book on 3D user interfaces.

Order your copy from, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or directly from Addison-Wesley.