EVL provides expertise and resources in support of informal science education applications and exhibits for K-20 children and young adults. Our outreach efforts include working with discipline scientists to develop science-based applications for museums and other public venues.
We have collaborated with artists, anthropologists and social scientists to develop cultural heritage VR applications ranging from ancient Olympia in Greece to early 20th-century Harlem in New York City. We have also worked with several museums that have installed our CAVE® virtual reality theater, to advise on technology advancements and to provide content. These museums include Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, and NTT / InterCommunication Center in Tokyo, Japan.
Our outreach efforts also include the work of the Learning Technologies Group, which is co-located within EVL and led by computer science professor Dr. Tom Moher. This interdisciplinary group of graduate students develops and conducts “embedded phenomenon” science education outreach experiments in Chicago public school classrooms.
The Chicago 0,0 Riverwal AR experience provides a novel, interactive way for users to explore historical photographs sourced from museum archives. As… Read more
EVL is working with the Science Museum of Minnesota on a museum exhibit titled Future Earth. This exhibit addresses the long-term human impact on out… Read more
EVL collaborators at the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) built a TacTile multi-touch display in 2009 after seeing it at EVL, and made several… Read more
TacTile is a multi-touch 52-inch LCD tabletop display design to support collaborative applications through a highly intuitive, multi-user touch… Read more
Planetary-scale Terrain Composition is a GPU-centric real-time approach to generating and rendering planetary bodies composed of arbitrary quantities… Read more
EVL has been working with the Adler Planetarium over the last several years to deploy EVL’s advanced visualization display technologies and… Read more
RainTable Andrew Johnson, Dmitri Svistula, Jason Leigh, Patrick Hamilton (Science Museum of Minnesota) and Paul Morin (Department of Geology at the University of Minnesota)
January 15, 2006 - June 17, 2009
RainTable is an interactive multi-user application developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at… Read more
As part of EVL’s focus to develop affordable and accessible advanced visualization technologies and systems for broad deployment to educational… Read more
