Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Cyberinfrastructure to Catalyze and Sustain the Urban Computing Community
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Claudio T. Silva, Juliana Freire, Graham Dove (New York University) September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2029 Project Overview Cities are the loci of resource consumption, economic activity, and innovation; they are where our looming sustainability problems… Read more |
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Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira January 1, 2024 - Ongoing Curio is a framework for collaborative urban visual analytics that uses a dataflow model with multiple abstraction levels (code, grammar, GUI… Read more |
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Enhancing biomedical search interfaces with images
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco August 31, 2023 Searching for scientific documents is a pervasive task among researchers. While most academic search engines, such as Google Scholar, search over… Read more |
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Multi-Organ Spatial Stratification of 3-D Dose Distributions Improves Risk Prediction of Long-Term Self-Reported Severe Symptoms in Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Receiving Radiotherapy: Development of a Pre-Treatment Decision Support Tool
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Abdallah Sherif Radwan Mohamed, Mohamed A Naser, Lisanne V Van Dijk, Katherine Hutcheson, Amy M Moreno, Clifton D Fuller, Guadalupe Canahuate July 17, 2023 Advanced radiotherapy treatments for Oropharyngeal cancer have improved patient survival rates, although they lead to understudied long-term… Read more |
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Roses Have Thorns: Understanding the Downside of Oncological Care Delivery Through Visual Analytics and Sequential Rule Mining
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, A. Mohamed, C.D. Fuller, G. Canahuate January 1, 2023 We present an interactive analysis system to support sequential rule mining (SRM) model builders who work in cancer symptom research. SRM is a… Read more |
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HIgh Performance Computing Research
Hal Brynteson, Jyotsna Rajaraman, Marco Bonafini, Michael E. Papka, Nguyen Hoa Pham, Revathi Dhotre, Yash Kurkure August 16, 2022 - August 15, 2024 High-Performance Computing research and development supports the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) supercomputer’s use and… Read more |
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Crowdsourcing and Sidewalk Data: A Preliminary Study on the Trustworthiness of OpenStreetMap Data in the US
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Kazi Shahrukh Omar May 16, 2022 - Ongoing Sidewalks impart a safe walkway for pedestrians, links public transportation facilities, and equip people with limited abilities with routing and… Read more |
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GeoDataOnSphere: Collaborative Exploration of GeoData on Multi-touch Spherical Displays for Future Teachers
Nikita Nandish Soni, Stefany Sit, co-PI, UIC Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences April 10, 2022 - April 9, 2023 Researchers at UIC from the Departments of Computer Science and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences are studying how to design… Read more |
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Pacific Research Platform (PRP) - Nautilus
Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, University of California San Diego January 1, 2022 - Ongoing EVL is a technology Innovator, building industry and cross-institutional connections and partnerships. In 2022, EVL deployed two GPU FIONAs in… Read more |
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Deep Umbra: A Global-Scale Generative Adversarial Approach for Sunlight Access and Shadow Accumulation in Urban Spaces
Fabio Miranda, Farah Kamleh, Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Stefan Cobeli August 16, 2021 - Ongoing Deep Umbra is a novel computational framework that enables the quantification of sunlight access and shadows at a global scale. Our framework is… Read more |
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COVID-19 EnsembleVis: Visual Analysis of County-level Ensemble Forecast Models
Fabio Miranda, G. Elisabeta Marai, Sanjana Srabanti May 16, 2021 - Ongoing The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world over the past year, in a health crisis not seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. As of July 2021, the disease… Read more |
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Longitudinal Spatial-Nonspatial Decision Support for Competing Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Therapy
G. Elisabeta Marai, Xinhua Zhang (UIC); Guadalupe Canahuate (UIA); Dave Fuller (MDACC) March 1, 2021 - February 28, 2026 Cancers that depend on the spatial location of the disease affect all ethnicities, and are diagnosed each year in large numbers in the United States… Read more |
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Midwest Comprehensive Visualization Dashboards: A New Environmental Justice Tool for Chicago Communities
Fabio Miranda, Sanjana Srabanti, Joel Flax-Hatch, Fabio Miranda, Apostolis Sambanis, Michael D. Cailas, Michael Siciliano, Sybil Derrible, Yuan Shao, Greg Arling January 10, 2021 - Ongoing The UIC School of Public Health (UIC-SPH) Emergency Management and Resiliency Planning (EMRP) program, in collaboration with the Electronic… Read more |
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Articulate+ - A Conversational Interface for Democratizing Visual Analysis
Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano, Veronica Grosso October 1, 2020 - September 30, 2022 PI: Andrew Johnson (UIC/EVL); co-PIs: Barbara DiEugenio (UIC/CS), Moira Zellner (Norheastern University) Collaborator: Jason Leigh (University of… Read more |
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SAGE3: Smart Amplified Group Environment for Harnessing the Data Revolution
Andrew Burks, Andrew Johnson, Ashwini Naik, Eseroghene Omene, Krishna Bharadwaj, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Oli Kosiacki May 15, 2020 - April 30, 2025 UIC PI: Andrew Johnson, co-PI: Luc Renambot University of Hawaii Manoa PI: Jason Leigh Virginia Polytechnic PI: Chirstopher North NSF Award Number… Read more |
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Discovery Partners Institute: The Autism and Innovation Initiative
Daria Tsoupikova August 16, 2019 - Ongoing PI: Maureen Dunne, Disability and Human Development, UIC co-PI: Tamar Heller, Disability and Human Development, UIC co-PI: Daria Tsoupikova, New… Read more |
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Cancer Disparities in Chicago
Yashika Goyal February 1, 2019 - May 1, 2019 Cancer has a major impact on society all around the world. It affects people of all population groups though certain groups bear more burden of… Read more |
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SAGE2 Team Engaging with the Trusted CI Center on SAGE2 Cybersecurity
Mirko Mantovani October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019 The SAGE Development Team at the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and the… Read more |
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COMPaaS DLV User Community
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Timothy Bargo, Zhongyi Chen October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2022 The COMPaaS DLV: Composable Platform as a Service Instrument for Deep Learning & Visualization user community consists of faculty from Physics and… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Enhanced Physical Therapy
Andrew Johnson, Francesco Mantovani, Ryan Nishimoto, Simone Amico January 1, 2018 - December 31, 2018 The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab of Chicago worked with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago to use… Read more |
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VisSnippets: A Web-Based System for Impromptu Collaborative Data Exploration on Large Displays
Andrew Burks January 1, 2018 - Ongoing In the past decades, science has become increasingly interdisciplinary and scientific discovery has experienced a paradigm shift from the classical… Read more |
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Exploring Chicago
G. Elisabeta Marai, Manu Mathew Thomas, Jakob Eriksson May 16, 2017 - Ongoing Exploring big cities like Chicago can be a daunting experience when the tourist has to gather information from multiple sources regarding places… Read more |
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Englewood Social Service Finder and Englewood Analytics
Andrew Burks, G. Elisabeta Marai, Joshua Lagunda Castor, Isabel Lindmae, Jaspreet Kaur Sohal May 16, 2017 - Ongoing The Englewood Data Hub (EDH) is a project that brings together both crowdsourced and public data surrounding the Englewood area into a single place… Read more |
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UIC Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory
Debaleena Chattopadhyay January 1, 2017 - Ongoing The Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is led by assistant professor Debaleena Chattopadhyay… Read more |
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MRI - Development of Continuum: A Virtualized Attentive Environment for Amplified Collaboration
Andrew Johnson, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jack O'Donnell, Jillian Aurisano, Joe Borowicz, Jonas Talandis, Kayla Condrella, Kenan Arica, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Michael Avendano, Navya Reddy, Robert V. Kenyon, Sumayya Siddiqui, Szymon Popowski, Vijayraj Mahida, Barbara DiEugenio October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019 Just as NSF cyberinfrastructure produces greater volumes and varieties of data from data storage systems, online instrumentation and major… Read more |
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SENSEI-Panama
James Hwang, Jillian Aurisano, Oliver San-Juan, Ishta Bhagat November 1, 2015 - Ongoing SENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument is a National Science Foundation award to construct a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution… Read more |
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SAGEBoard: a Whiteboard for Large Multitouch Displays
August 16, 2015 - May 3, 2016 SAGEBoard is an electronic whiteboard for tiled touch displays that can be used locally or shared between remote collaborators. An electronic… Read more |
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SENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument
Ahmad Atra, Andrew Johnson, Bartosz Kupiec, Daniel J. Sandin, Dimitar Kirilov, Harlyn Baker, Hayley Christianson, Kyra Jones, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Robert V. Kenyon, Tanya Berger-Wolf October 1, 2014 - September 30, 2019 SENSEI will be a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution, spherical (4π steradian), photometric, radiometric and photogrammetric real-time… Read more |
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Enhancing Nurse Effectiveness via Augmented Communication Tools
Angus Forbes, J. Carrington, M. Surdeanu September 23, 2014 - June 30, 2017 Our interdisciplinary team of computer science and health care researchers will develop augmented communication tools (ACTs) within a prototype… Read more |
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CAVE2/Unity Simulator
Arthur Nishimoto November 18, 2013 - Ongoing Developed by EVL PhD Candidate Arthur Nishimoto the CAVE2/Unity simulator is a Unity3D package for testing and development of Unity3D applications… Read more |
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SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems)
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto January 7, 2013 - January 8, 2018 Funded by NASA, the SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems) is to deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle… Read more |
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ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer) (SAGE™ Collaboration)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Peter Doran, UIC Earth and Environmental Sciences Department; Stone Aerospace; NASA Ames Research Center; Montana State University January 1, 2013 - Ongoing This application uses EVL’s SAGE™ software to display both 2D and 3D data in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. In a… Read more |
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Hospital Architecture Study
Jason Leigh September 1, 2012 - Ongoing The CAVE2™ System is a hybrid environment that enables users to mash-up a number of 2D and 3D images at the same time using SAGE™… Read more |
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Rebar Cage
Thomas A. DeFanti, Andre Barbosa, Jurgen Schulze (University of California San Diego); American Bridge Company / Fluor Enterprises Inc. May 1, 2011 - Ongoing Participants walk through a 3D model of an 80x60x20-foot section of the rebar cage of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Note that this model… Read more |
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The Shadow
Qin Li, Robert V. Kenyon, Chihua Ma, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago January 1, 2011 - May 15, 2012 This project’s goal is to render an avatar on a display screen that will mimic the movements of the person facing the screen, in real-time… Read more |
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SAGE on Argonne’s Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall
Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh November 16, 2009 - August 15, 2011 The research collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and the Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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Cli-Mate: An Interactive Climate Application for TacTile Multi-touch Display
Ed Kahler, Jason Leigh, Mark Hereld, Michael Papka (Argonne National Laboratory) November 1, 2009 - October 31, 2011 Cli-Mate is an interactive multi-touch application for the visualization of climate data. Developed to explore new interaction modalities with the… Read more |
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Laser Emitting Diode for Stabilization of Cutaneous Battlefield Wounds for Air Evacuation and Transport
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Paul Grenning, Maxine Brown, Patrick Hallihan, Victor Mateevitsi, Yiwen Sun September 30, 2009 - November 14, 2011 Wartime injuries present extreme problems in wound management and the modern battlefield places extraordinary adaptability demands on combat medical… Read more |
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Research, Analysis, and Databasing of Emerging High Power Directed Energy Technologies Marketed to the Clinical and Research Communities
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Patrick Hallihan, Victor Mateevitsi, Yiwen Sun September 30, 2009 - September 29, 2015 This project applies a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of medical devices and laboratory equipment that utilize directed energy (DE)… Read more |
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Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Yu-Chung Chen, Gail M. Keenan and Diana Wilke (University of Florida College of Nursing); Karen Dunn Lopez (UIC College of Nursing) September 18, 2009 - May 31, 2015 The Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS) is a standardized plan of care method in which the patient’s plan is updated at every nurse… Read more |
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OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2012 STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyber Infrastructure The goal of this project is to… Read more |
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Fleet Commander
Arthur Nishimoto, Jason Leigh June 15, 2009 - September 1, 2009 Fleet Commander is an interactive game developed to explore how a real-time strategy game that often relies on complex keyboard commands and mouse… Read more |
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Disaster Preparedness Training Online Gaming Demonstration
Alejandro Borsani, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Michael Lewis, Muxuan Wang, Sangyoon Lee, Patricia Rushing (IGPA / UIUC PI), Tom Ruiz, Mike Woodley (UIUC / Dept of Computer Science, Music) May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2010 UIC, UIUC and Center for Technology and Public Policy Working on Earthquake Preparedness Simulation for Middle School Students Computer science… Read more |
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Future Earth Initiative
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Science Museum of Minnesota April 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011 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 |
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Articulate: a Semi-automated System for Translating Natural Language Queries into Meaningful Visualizations
Abeer Alsaiari, Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Joe Borowicz, Luc Renambot, Vijayraj Mahida, Yiwen Sun, Barbara DiEugenio March 1, 2009 - Ongoing While many visualization tools exist that offer sophisticated functions for charting complex data, they still expect users to possess a high degree… Read more |
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Rising Tide
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011 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 |
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OmegaDesk: An Instrument for Interactive Visual Data Exploration and Collaboration
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Victor Mateevitsi, Yiwen Sun, Alessandro Febretti September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2012 OmegaDesk provides researchers with a powerful, easy-to-use, information-rich, cyberinfrastructure instrument in support of scientific discovery. The… Read more |
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TacTile
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Ed Kahler, Jason Leigh, Jenny Kinahan, Karan Chakrapani, Lance Long, Naomi Yarin, Robert Kooima, Todd Richard Silvia August 16, 2008 - October 15, 2011 TacTile is a multi-touch 52-inch LCD tabletop display design to support collaborative applications through a highly intuitive, multi-user touch… Read more |
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Visual Analysis of Social Behavior of Wild Animals
Khairi Reda August 16, 2008 - August 16, 2009 Understanding the social interaction of wild animals in the context of their ecology is imperative to the conservation of endangered species. Our… Read more |
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MERRA Computation Using LambdaRAM
Venkatram Vishwanath, Software Integration and Visualization Office (SIVO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center May 16, 2008 - November 4, 2008 Data-intensive scientific applications require rapid access to local and geographically distributed data, however, there are significant I/O latency… Read more |
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Cyber-Commons
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2018 A Cyber-Commons is a technology-enhanced meeting room on a university campus that supports local and distance collaboration and promotes… Read more |
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Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days
Maxine Brown August 1, 2007 - Ongoing A partnership of national organizations involved in distributed computing and networking (cyberinfrastructure, or CI) runs the “CI Days”… Read more |
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NASA Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Ratko Jagodic, Shriram Iyer, Peter Doran (PI UIC); John Priscu (Montana State University); Christopher McKay (NASA Ames Research Center); Bill Stone (Stone Aerospace) May 1, 2007 - April 30, 2010 NASA’s Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) Program is supporting ENDURANCE - the Environmentally Non-Disturbing… Read more |
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ETARS: Eye Tracking Assessment and Remediation System
Filippo Galgani, Jason Leigh, Katie Cruppenink, Yiwen Sun, Richard Markin, Learning By Design, Inc. July 1, 2006 - December 31, 2008 The initial goal of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of creating a research and service software platform that can be used to test a… Read more |
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Virtual Driving Simulator with Wilbur Smith Associates & the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority
Jason Leigh, Kapil Arora, Robert Kooima June 14, 2006 - August 31, 2006 The virtual driving simulator co-developed by computer science Ph.D. student Robert Kooima and Master of Fine Art student Kapil Arora was developed… Read more |
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Corelyzer
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Sangyoon Lee, Yu-Chung Chen September 1, 2005 - Ongoing Ice cores drilled from lake and ocean floors, continents, and ice sheets provide geoscientists with the most extensive and accurate picture of the… Read more |
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CineGrid™ Initiative
Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Lauren Herr, Natalie Van Osdol (Pacific Interface), Larry Smarr (UCSD / Calit2), Richard Weinberg, Elizabeth Daley (USC / CNTV), Tomonori Aoyama, Naohisa Ohta (Keio / DMC) September 1, 2005 - Ongoing CineGrid is an initiative to provide media professionals access to global cyberinfrastructure capable of carrying ultra-high performance digital… Read more |
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OptIPuter and Global Lambda Visualization Facility (GLVF)
Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti September 1, 2005 - Ongoing The Global Lambda Visualization Facility (GLVF), established in September 2005, addresses the need to integrate visualization and collaboration… Read more |
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SAGE: Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment
Allan Spale, Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Byungil Jeong, Charles Zhang, Gideon Goldman, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Nicholas Schwarz, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Vaidya Chandrasekhar, Venkatram Vishwanath January 1, 2004 - November 17, 2013 The Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) is a distributed computing architecture for supporting two non-trivial problems in visualization… Read more |
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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2008 VIEW OptIPortal WORLD LOCATIONS From 2002-2008, EVL has been part of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project, the goal of which is to develop advanced… Read more |
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GeoWall Consortium
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Paul Morin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Peter van Keken, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan May 1, 2002 - August 1, 2005 The GeoWall is low-cost, non-tracked, passive-stereo system that allows distributed audiences to view and interact with 3D immersive content. While… Read more |
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GeoWall 2
Andrew Johnson, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Shalini Venkataraman, Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2002 - September 30, 2007 The first generation of the GeoWall was targeted at providing affordable 3D stereoscopic visualization of small- to modest-sized Geoscience datasets… Read more |
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The DuPage Technology Research, Education, and Commercialization Center (TRECC)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot March 1, 2000 - October 31, 2008 EVL’s long term collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign… Read more |
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CIBRView: Collaborative Image Based Rendering
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory January 1, 1999 - July 1, 2000 The Collaborative Image Based Rendering Viewer (or CIBRView) is a CAVERNsoft-based tool for viewing animated sequences of image based renderings from… Read more |
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CAVERN - The CAVE™ Research Network
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Moher, U. Buy, R. Grossman October 1, 1998 - September 30, 2004 CAVERN, the CAVE™ Research Network, is an alliance of industrial and research institutions equipped with CAVE™-based virtual reality… Read more |
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ImageBased Modeling
Marek Czernuszenko, Robert Grzeszczuk January 1, 1998 - May 15, 1998 “The proposed approach involves video taping a scene twice with a hand-held video camera. Each time the recording is performed under different… Read more |
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NCSA: National Computational Science Alliance
Thomas A. DeFanti, L. Smarr, R. Abdulla, C. Bender, D. Ceperley, J. Connolly, R. GileJ. Hennessy, K. Kennedy;. McRae, J. Ostriker, D. Reed, R. Stevens, M. Vernon, P. Woodward October 1, 1997 - September 30, 2005 After 10 years, the NSF Supercomputer Centers Program was replaced with the NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)… Read more |
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Alliance Expeditions
Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Argnonne National Laboratory, Network for Earthquake Simulation, Earthscope, GriPhyN, TeraGrid communities October 1, 1997 - September 30, 2004 For the past 17 years, EVL’s partnership with NCSA and the Alliance has enabled the rapid deployment and acceptance of EVL’s advanced… Read more |
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Datamax UV-1
Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1980 - January 1, 1981 The Datamax UV-1 was a pioneering computer designed by a working group of computer graphics artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The… Read more |