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Beyond User-Centered Design: Ecological Approach to the User Interface Design and Evaluation in Augmented Reality
October 25, 2024 Assistant professor Hy Kim, director of UIC’s Human-Centered Engineering Lab will present his research: Friday 10/25/24, 1pm EVL Continuum… Read more |
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UIC CS William McCulloch Professor Mike Papka speaking at TEDxChicago 2024
Michael E. Papka September 27, 2024 Congratulations to Mike Papka, one of nine speakers at TEDxChicago 2024: Lighting the Way to be held Friday, September 27th at Harris Theater… Read more |
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Micheal E. Papka Honored with Warren S. McCulloch Professorships of Computer Science
Michael E. Papka September 20, 2024 Computer Science (CS) Professor and EVL faculty Micheal E. Papka is being honored among only a few of his colleagues with the Warren S. McCulloch… Read more |
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Michael E. Papka Named EVL Director
Michael E. Papka September 16, 2024 Michael E. Papka has been announced as the new Director of EVL. Mike has a long history with EVL, starting in 1994 when he graduated with his Masters… Read more |
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UIC’s First Creative Coding Community Workshop a Tremendous Success!
Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Farah Kamleh June 17, 2024 - June 28, 2024 The first Creative Coding Community Workshop brought together a diverse group of Chicago public high school students ranging in age from 13 to 15 to… Read more |
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PhD Dissertation Announcement “Supporting Metaphor Elicitation in Asymmetric Virtual Environments”
Sai Priya Jyothula April 25, 2024 Candidate: Sai Priya Jyothula Committee: Dr. Andrew Johnson, Advisor and Chair Dr. Steve Jones (Department of Communication) Dr. Debaleena… Read more |
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PhD Dissertation Announcement: “Multimodal Situated Analytics (MuSA) for Analyzing Conversations in Extended Reality”
Ashwini Naik April 24, 2024 Candidate: Ashwini G. Naik Committee Members: Dr. Andrew Johnson (Advisor and Chair) Dr. Robert Kenyon (Co-Advisor) Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr… Read more |
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EVL Professor Michael Papka co-Directs the George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability
Michael E. Papka April 16, 2024 The George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability is an institutional partnership between Argonne National Laboratory and the University… Read more |
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EVL Professor Michael Papka Recognized as ACM Distinguished Member
Michael E. Papka January 17, 2024 EVL Professor Michael Papka is among 52 ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Members inducted into the International Computing… Read more |
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EVL Awarded NSF MRI Support to Build the Data Observation and Computation Collaboratory (DOCC)
Andrew Johnson, Fabio Miranda, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Michael E. Papka, Nikita Nandish Soni October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026 The National Science Foundation has awarded EVL a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant to build the Data Observation and Computation… Read more |
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PhD Prelim Announcement: Improving Conversation Analysis Pipeline through Personal Situated Analytics in Extended Reality
Ashwini Naik May 23, 2023 Ph.D. Student: Ashwini G. Naik Committee Members: Dr. Nikita Soni Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr. Steve Jones (External Member) Dr. Robert Kenyon… Read more |
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MDES Thesis Presentation “The Elegy”
May 5, 2023 Master of Design graduate student Quentin Bu presents her virtual reality performance piece “An Elegy for the Departed - an Interactive Virtual… Read more |
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Extending the virtual: the museum as a hybrid experience
Maria Roussou May 3, 2023 EVL alumna and Associate Professor in Interactive Systems at the Department of Informatics & Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University… Read more |
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PhD Dissertation Announcement: “Collaborative Augmented Reality for Virtual Reality Display Wall Environments”
Arthur Nishimoto April 20, 2023 Candidate: Arthur Nishimoto Committee: Andrew Johnson, Chair and Advisor Debaleena Chattopadhyay Steve Jones Wei Tang Jason Leigh (University of… Read more |
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“Hummingbird” Performances Scheduled at the Chicago Children’s Theater
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula March 23, 2023 - March 26, 2023 “Hummingbird” is coming to the Chicago Children’s Theater March 24-26th. Written by Jo Catell and developed by Daria Tsoupikova… Read more |
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PhD Prelim Announcement: Supporting Motor-Rehabilitation and Metaphor Elicitation in Asymmetric Virtual Environments
Sai Priya Jyothula December 12, 2022 PhD Student: Sai Priya Jyothula Committee: Dr. Andrew Johnson, Advisor and Chair Dr. Steve Jones Dr. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Dr. Joseph Michaelis Dr… Read more |
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Interested in pursuing a PhD in Computer Science in the United States?
November 2, 2022 UIC Department of Computer Science Doctoral Admissions Webinar November 2nd 2022 @7 am-8:30am Chicago time (CDT) Webinar… Read more |
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Computer Science + Design Major
October 27, 2022 UIC Engineering’s News promotes the new and very popular computer science + design undergraduate degree. UIC is the only public university… Read more |
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Alum Michael E. Papka Joins EVL Faculty
Michael E. Papka August 16, 2022 - Ongoing This academic year 2023 EVL alum Mike Papka has joined UIC’s Department of Computer Science and EVL faculty as a professor, bringing years of… Read more |
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“Hummingbird” Exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2022 (S2022)
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula, Jo Cattell (Goodman Theatre) August 8, 2022 - August 12, 2022 Following the premiere of “Hummingbird” as part of the Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival in December… Read more |
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APLU’s Council on Academic Affairs (CAA) Visit EVL
Arthur Nishimoto, Dana M. Plepys, Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Sai Priya Jyothula, Steve Jones July 18, 2022 APLU’s Council on Academic Affairs (CAA) provosts, chief academic officers, and senior vice presidents for academic affairs of APLU member… Read more |
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Daria Tsoupikova Awarded with UIC Award for Creative Activity
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula, Jo Cattell (Goodman Theatre) May 19, 2022 School of Design and EVL professor Daria Tsoupikova has been recognized with the UIC Award for Creative Activity for 2022-2023. Daria is among 42… Read more |
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EVL PhD Candidate Arthur Nishimoto Recognized with the COE Exceptional Research Promise Award
Arthur Nishimoto April 21, 2022 Long-time EVLer and PhD candidate Arthur Nishimoto has been recognized by the UIC College of Engineering with the 2022 Exceptional Research Promise… Read more |
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EVL Students Recognized in 2022 UIC Image of Research Competition
Arthur Nishimoto, Sai Priya Jyothula April 19, 2022 This year, UIC Computer Science PhD students and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistants Sai Priya Jyothula and Arthur… Read more |
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Goodman Theater New Stages Announces Staging of “HUMMINGBIRD”
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula December 3, 2021 - December 6, 2021 The Goodman Theater New Stages Festival will showcase “HUMMINGBIRD” December 3-6, 2021to be held at the Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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Daria Tsoupikova Participates in CAAV 2021
Daria Tsoupikova November 3, 2021 EVL faculty member and professor of Design Daria Tsoupikova will represent UIC at the 6th Annual International CAAV Conference to be held as a hybrid… Read more |
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New Computer Design Research and Learning Center Breaks Ground
September 16, 2021 Construction activities for the new $117.8 million, 135,000-square-foot Computer Design Research and Learning Center to be located at 900 W. Taylor… Read more |
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PhD Dissertation Announcement: Hybrid Collaborative Virtual Environments
Krishna Bharadwaj July 6, 2021 Candidate Name: Krishna Bharadwaj Date: Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 Time: 2:00PM Location: Zoom Link Meeting ID: 828 8311 9453 Passcode: kbEVL8phd… Read more |
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“Hummingbird” Among UIC Today’s Top Stories
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula June 23, 2021 UIC Today covers the “Hummingbird” project, a collaboration between UIC and the Goodman Theatre that blends VR storytelling and… Read more |
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Virtual-reality play: UIC debuts ’Hummingbird,’ allowing audience to participate in the story
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula June 22, 2021 Congratulations to Daria Tsoupikova in collaboration with award winning theater director Jo Cattell and their team, including application developers… Read more |
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Pilot Performances of “HUMMINGBIRD” Collaborative Virtual Reality for Tele-Immersive Interactive Theater
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Sai Priya Jyothula June 18, 2021 - June 20, 2021 EVL hosts the pilot performances of “HUMMINGBIRD” the multiuser theatrical work that merges real and virtual worlds, engaging tech-savvy… Read more |
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Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Dan Sandin
Daniel J. Sandin May 27, 2021 EVL founding co-director Dan Sandin discusses his pioneering real-time video performance work created between 1975 and 1978. The virtual event… Read more |
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Daria Tsoupikova Named SIGGRAPH 2021 Art Papers Chair
Daria Tsoupikova January 1, 2021 - August 5, 2021 Join us in congratulating EVL faculty and School of Design professor Daria Tsoupikova who has been named the SIGGRAPH 2021 Art Papers Chair. Each… Read more |
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EVL and UIC Computer Science Alumnus Marco Cavallo Honored with Outstanding Young Achievement Award
Marco Cavallo December 14, 2020 EVL alumnus Marco Cavallo was awarded with the UIC College of Engineering Outstanding Young Achievement Award in Computer Science for 2020. The award… Read more |
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OASIS: A Collaborative Virtual Reality Design Exhibition Exploring the Post-Capitalist Mall
Daria Tsoupikova December 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020 VGA Zine, a digital publication by the team at Video Game Art Gallery features an online VR exhibition in its Issue V: December 2020. “OASIS: A… Read more |
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Andrew Johnson Named Interim Director, EVL
Andrew Johnson October 1, 2020 - Ongoing October 1 - - EVL Director of Research Andrew Johnson has been named Interim Director of EVL following Maxine Brown’s retirement from UIC… Read more |
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EVL Alumna Brenda López Silva Earns Fulbright Award for Research, Teaching
Brenda Lopez Silva September 9, 2020 EVL alumna (MFA 2004) Brenda Lopez Silva is among four UIC faculty members who have been selected as Fulbright scholars for 2020-21. They are among… Read more |
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EVL Research Assistant Ryan Nishimoto Featured as Computer Science Grad
Ryan Nishimoto January 6, 2020 After graduating with his bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ryan Nishimoto began his… Read more |
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Preliminary Examination Announcement: “Collaborative Augmented Reality for Virtual Reality Display Wall Environments”
Arthur Nishimoto December 2, 2019 Ph.D. Student Name: Arthur Nishimoto Committee: Prof. Andrew Johnson, Chair and Advisor Prof. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Prof. Steve Jones Prof. Wei… Read more |
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Dana Plepys receiving UIC CAPE Award at 2019 UIC Employee Recognition Award Ceremony and Reception
Dana M. Plepys November 19, 2019 Dana Plepys is one of six people receiving the 2019 UIC Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE Award). This Award recognizes… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Student Exposition at VGA
Brenda Lopez Silva, Daria Tsoupikova, Jade Almaguer, Kyra Jones October 25, 2019 The Video Game Art Gallery hosts Electronic Visualization Laboratory and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago student virtual reality projects… Read more |
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Daria Tsoupikova Recognized Among Leonardo's Outstanding Peer Reviewers
Daria Tsoupikova August 1, 2019 Since 2017, Leonardo commenced a quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers noted for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on… Read more |
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Tsoupikova’s “Transforming Storytelling: Multi-User Virtual Reality Theater for Collaborative Tele-Immersive Exploration” Awarded
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Jo Cattell January 24, 2019 - December 31, 2020 JANUARY 24, 2019 - Daria Tsoupikova, associate professor in the UIC School of Design and an affiliated faculty member of the UIC Electronic… Read more |
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Reader reviews “Chicago New Media 1973-1992“ exhibition featuring UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti November 29, 2018 ‘Chicago New Media 1973-1992’ pays tribute to the city’s contribution to video games and digital art EDITOR’S NOTE… Read more |
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UIC CS/EVL Alumna Trina Roy Receives Engineering Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award
Trina Roy November 7, 2018 NOVEMBER 7, 2018 - Trina Roy, a UIC alumna who majored in Computer Science and worked as a research assistant at the Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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UIC CS/EVL Lance Long Receives UIC Award of Merit
Lance Long November 1, 2018 NOVEMBER 1, 2018 -- Lance Long, Senior Research Programmer for the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), which is part of the Computer Science… Read more |
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UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory Graduates and Staff Participate in Symposium “Herstory: Digital Innovations”
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Copper Giloth, Dana M. Plepys, Margaret Dolinsky, Mary Rasmussen, Maxine Brown, Barbara Sykes October 18, 2018 OCTOBER 18, 2018 - “Herstory: Digital Innovations Symposium and Book Signing,” celebrates the book “New Media Futures (NMF): The… Read more |
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UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory to be Featured in “Chicago New Media 1973-1992” Exhibition
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti October 15, 2018 OCTOBER 15, 2018 - “Chicago New Media 1973-1992” is a public exhibition, to be held November 1 - December 15, 2018, that illuminates the… Read more |
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Prelim Announcement: “Commonly Identified Feature-based Stitching System for Stereoscopic Panoramic Video Generation”
Haoyu Wang July 20, 2018 Committee: Dan Schonfeld (Chair/Advisor) Daniel J. Sandin Andrew E. Johnson Hulya Seferoglu Mojtaba Soltanalian Date & Time: July 20th, 2018, 12:00PM… Read more |
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UIC/EVL Featured in new book: New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Copper Giloth, Dana M. Plepys, Lucy Petrovich, Margaret Dolinsky, Mary Rasmussen, Maxine Brown, Sally Rosenthal, Barbara Sykes May 24, 2018 MAY 24, 2018 - The 1980s and beyond were a pivotal time for the digital arts media in the Midwest, and many of the women who went to school or worked… Read more |
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MS Thesis Defense: “ETNA: a Virtual Reality Game with Affective Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment based on Skin Conductance”
Simone Amico May 8, 2018 Date & Time: May 8th, 2018, 10am Location: 1000 SEO Defense committee: Andrew Johnson, Chair and Advisor G. Elisabeta Marai Marco D. Santambrogio… Read more |
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VGA Exhibition Tells Underrecognized Story Of New Media In Chicago
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti December 12, 2017 - December 15, 2018 CHICAGO - VGA announces its ”Chicago New Media 1973-1992“ exhibition, public program and catalogue, in partnership with Gallery 400 at… Read more |
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Mechdyne Open House at UIC/EVL Showcases expanded riverwalk concepts for Chicago
November 28, 2017 DECEMBER 4, 2017 - The evening of November 28, 2017, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago was the… Read more |
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University of Illinois System 2017 PELP Program Visits the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)
November 8, 2017 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017 - The President of the University of Illinois System, Timothy Killeen, this week led a delegation of ~18 University… Read more |
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THE CAAV 2017 Conference Featured Keynote on EVL’’s Visualization and Collaboration Technologies
Maxine Brown October 25, 2017 - October 27, 2017 OCTOBER 26, 2017 - Maxine Brown, director of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), participated in The Higher Education Campus Alliance… Read more |
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EVL hosts CAVE2 demos as part of Computer Science’s activities for UIC Open House
Andrew Burks, Bartosz Kupiec, Chihua Ma, Juan Trelles Trabucco, Krishna Bharadwaj, Nina Sakhnini, Timothy Luciani, Vijayraj Mahida September 16, 2017 Today’s UIC Open House welcomed prospective students, their parents, and the general public to tour the campus and learn more about the many… Read more |
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UIC/EVL Student Recognized in 2017 UIC Image of Research Competition
Arthur Nishimoto September 14, 2017 September 14, 2017 - This year, UIC Computer Science (CS) PhD student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistant Arthur… Read more |
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Inside a Real Life Holodeck
Andrew Johnson June 13, 2017 JUNE 13, 2017 - Ryan Wolff and David Wolff, producers of the documentary web series “The Good Stuff,” recently completed a program on… Read more |
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CAVE2 comparison of 1st & 3rd user perspectives in virtual motor rehabilitation tasks
Juan Trelles Trabucco March 8, 2017 EVL MS candidate Juan Trelles Trabucco presents his masters thesis research “CAVE2 comparison of 1st & 3rd user perspectives in virtual motor… Read more |
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PhD Defense Announcement: “Multiview Immersion in Hybrid Reality Environments”
Alessandro Febretti March 3, 2017 Alessandro Febretti presents his PhD research in developing a model of an operating system for Hybrid Reality Environments, called Omegalib. Friday… Read more |
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Newcity magazine rates UIC/EVL as “Best place to get your geek on”
November 6, 2016 Newcity magazine is Chicago’s only locally owned and operated cultural weekly, and has been covering Chicago’s local scene for more than… Read more |
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UIC/EVL Helps Kick Off NSF’s Holodeck Social Media Campaign
Arthur Nishimoto September 19, 2016 Capitalizing on Star Trek’s 50th anniversary, which debuted on September 8, 1966, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed a social… Read more |
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UIC/EVL Alumnus Lewis Siegel Amasses an Impressive Computer Graphics Resume over Nearly 25 Year Career
Lewis Siegel September 12, 2016 September 2016 - Since graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1992, Lewis Siegel, a Computer Science (CS) Master of Science… Read more |
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UIC/EVL Students Recognized in 2016 UIC Image of Research Competition
James Hwang, Jillian Aurisano, Victor Mateevitsi September 7, 2016 This year, UIC Computer Science (CS) PhD student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistant Victor Mateevitsi received 1st… Read more |
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Music Instruction in a Virtual/Augmented Reality Environment (CAVE2™ and HoloLens)
Shreyas Mohan August 10, 2016 EVL summer intern, Shreyas Mohan from Metea Valley High School, Aurora, IL presents the results of his efforts towards developing a robust music… Read more |
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SENSEI-Panama: Visualizing Animal Movement Data on a Virtual Island in the CAVE2™
James Hwang, Jillian Aurisano June 29, 2016 June 29, 2016, 1 PM EVL Cyber-Commons, Room 2068 ERF EVL PhD candidate Jillian Aurisano and research experience undergraduate (REU) James Hwang… Read more |
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“Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” Awarded Top Electronic Literature Prize
Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Roderick Coover (Temple University), Scott Rettberg (University of Bergen, Norway), Mark Partridge, Mark Baratta, John Tsukyama, Dr. Jeffrey Stevenson Murer (St. Andrews University, Scotland) June 11, 2016 On June 11, 2016, at the annual Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference at University of Victoria in Canada, “Hearts and Minds: The… Read more |
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“Hearts and Minds” Exhibited at ISEA2016
Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Arthur Nishimoto, Lance Long - University of Illinois at Chicago; Roderick Coover, Mark Partridge - Temple University; Scott Rettberg - University of Bergen, Norway May 16, 2016 - May 22, 2016 The collaborative 3D virtual reality experience “Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” was exhibited during 22nd International… Read more |
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Andrea Rottigni Thesis Presentation: “Serious Games for Virtual Rehabilitation in a Large Scale Virtual Reality Environment”
Andrea Rottigni, Marco Cavallo, Andrea Rottigni May 6, 2016 Wednesday, May 6, 2016, 11:00 AM Room 1000, Science & Engineering Office Building, UIC UIC Computer Science and EVL exchange student from the… Read more |
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UIC CS/EVL PhD student Arthur Nishimoto receives 2016 UIC Chancellor's Student Service Award
Arthur Nishimoto April 14, 2016 Arthur Nishimoto, a PhD student in the UIC Computer Science Department and a Research Assistant at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)… Read more |
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360 X 180 panorama construction based on image stitching method
Haoyu Wang April 6, 2016 Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 1:00 PM EVL Cyber-Commons (Room 2068 ERF) EVL research assistant and Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student, Haoyu… Read more |
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Celebrating Women in New Media Arts
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Copper Giloth, Dana M. Plepys, Ellen Sandor, Lucy Petrovich, Margaret Dolinsky, Maxine Brown, Donna Cox, Janine Fron March 18, 2016 Friday, March 18, 2016 9:30am - 4:30pm SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago “Celebrating Women in New Media Arts,” a one-day… Read more |
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Star Wars Death Star reborn in virtual reality at UIC
Arthur Nishimoto March 11, 2016 In January 2016, Siying Li, a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University covering technology innovations for… Read more |
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Summer Internship Enables UIC/EVL Student to Work on Multi-Person Virtual Reality
Victor Mateevitsi November 10, 2015 Victor Mateevitsi, a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) PhD student in the Computer Science (CS) Department and the Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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Presentation Ben Simons, University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
November 4, 2015 ABSTRACT The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) opened the UTS Data Arena in July 2015. The Data Arena is an interactive 3D-Stereo Data Science… Read more |
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Innovative Discoveries From the University of Illinois
October 27, 2015 The Office of the Vice President for Research of the University of Illinois has published the report “Innovative Discoveries From the… Read more |
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EVL Alumna Opens Emerging Analytics Center at University of Arkansas
October 16, 2015 - October 17, 2015 EVL PhD alumna and director of the University of Arkansas Little Rock’s Emerging Analytics Center, Carolina Cruz-Neira hosts the inaugural open… Read more |
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UIC’s CAVE2™ showcased on CTA buses
September 17, 2015 As you walk through downtown Chicago, don’t be surprised to advertisements for the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) popping up on city… Read more |
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Virtual Harlem Lives On
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh August 23, 2015 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago was an early participant in the project “Virtual… Read more |
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Computer Research Association Funds UIC Computer Science Undergrads to Pursue Careers in Research
Brook Habtegiorgis, Carlos Uribe, G. Elisabeta Marai, Joshua Rodriguez August 6, 2015 UIC Computer Science Undergraduate Students’ Potential Accelerates with a Special Mentorship August 6, 2015 UIC Computer Science (CS)… Read more |
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SAGE2 Multi-User Touch Centric Interface and Unity3D in CAVE2: First Steps in a More Interactive Virtual World
Arthur Nishimoto June 3, 2015 EVL PhD candidate, Arthur Nishimoto presents his research in user-interface design for multi-user touch display environments, followed by an overview… Read more |
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In the Loop: Maxine D. Brown
Maxine Brown April 21, 2015 EVL Director, Maxine D. Brown presents EVL's latest research in collaborative tools and technologies at Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology… Read more |
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UIC / EVL is building a camera that sees 360 degrees in 3D
Daniel J. Sandin, Harlyn Baker November 24, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: UIC received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation entitled “Development of the Sensor Environment… Read more |
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EVL of UIC Computer Science Department receives new $3 million grant from NSF
Daniel J. Sandin, Harlyn Baker, PI: Maxine Brown, Director of EVL Co-PIs: Robert V. Kenyon, Andrew E. Johnson, Tanya Berger-Wolf September 16, 2014 UIC received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation entitled “Development of the Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI)… Read more |
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Monash: In the cave of high science
Paul Bonnington, director; David Barnes, senior research fellow (Monash eResearch Centre) June 19, 2014 The first customer to buy a CAVE2™ system from Mechdyne Corporation, the company that licensed the technology from the UIC Electronic… Read more |
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Battlefield Torture, Climate Change, and Immersive Narrative - EVL presents two provocative new artworks
Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Arthur Nishimoto, Lance Long - University of Illinois at Chicago; Roderick Coover, Mark Partridge - Temple University; Scott Rettberg - University of Bergen, Norway June 17, 2014 - July 7, 2014 Tuesday, June 17th, 3-5 PM Monday, July 7th, 4-6 PM The Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is pleased to… Read more |
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UIC / EVL one of the “Proud to be Sustainable” Photo Contest winners
Andrew Johnson April 29, 2014 April 29 2014, the UIC Office of Sustainability celebrated the results of its “Proud to be Sustainable” Photo Contest at the UIC African… Read more |
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The CAVE artists
March 4, 2014 The article “The CAVE artists” was recently published in Nature Medicine, Vol. 20, 2014, pp. 228-230, doi:10.1038/nm0314-228. The article… Read more |
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NY TIMES: Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
January 26, 2014 Sunday, January 26, 2014, the New York Times had a blog / story entitled “Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape,” by journalist… Read more |
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EVL and NASA ENDURANCE on Al Jazeera America
Electronic Visualization Laboratory & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (University of Illinois at Chicago) Stone Aerospace NASA Ames Research Center Montana State University December 8, 2013 On December 8, 2013, the Al Jazeera America television station aired a science story on the NASA-funded ENDURANCE project, a collaboration of… Read more |
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE highlights UIC EVL’s participation in Chicago Ideas Week 2013
October 21, 2013 Chicago Ideas Week: Lab attendees visit Mars and Egypt with UIC’s EVL On October 21, 2013, the CHICAGO TRIBUNE published an article… Read more |
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Australia’s Monash University introduces world’s second CAVE2™ System
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, Monash University, Mechdyne Corporations October 19, 2013 Though not officially yet launched, the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment at Monash University is already a centerpiece of the new building… Read more |
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Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) 2013
October 14, 2013 Chicago Ideas Week (CIW) 2013 EVL TOUR SOLD OUT Date: Monday, October 14 Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm Location of EVL CAVE2™ Tours: EVL TOUR SOLD OUT… Read more |
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UIC Open House 2013
October 5, 2013 UIC Open House 2013 Date: Saturday, October 5 Time: Open House 9:00am - 2pm (EVL CAVE2™ Tours 10:00am - 2:00pm) Location of EVL CAVE2™… Read more |
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The art of numbers: Who knew Big Data could look so cool?
September 18, 2013 PCWorld’s sister publication TechHive (1.2 million monthly unique visitors) published the story “The art of numbers: Who knew Big Data… Read more |
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Visualizing Next-Generation Virtual Reality in Chicago
May 22, 2013 EdTech: Focus on Higher Education, a CDW*G publication, just released a video news story about the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment developed… Read more |
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WBEZ and WTTW promote UIC / EVL’s Project Batman
April 30, 2013 Project Batman is a UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) project being done in conjunction with the Civic Consulting Alliance (CCA) of… Read more |
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WTTW airs story on EVL and CAVE2™ System - Tuesday, April 23
April 23, 2013 On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, the WTTW television news show “Chicago Tonight” aired an ~8 minute “Scientific Chicago” segment… Read more |
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UIC / EVL mentioned in New York Times: A Big Data Freeway for Scientists
Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), University of California, San Diego March 20, 2013 The article “A ‘Big Data’ Freeway for Scientists” by John Markoff appeared the March 20, 2013 issue of the New York Times… Read more |
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Step into a Virtual World (UIC News)
March 5, 2013 Matt O’Connor “We love science fiction, and we just want to live in the science fiction world,” said computer scientist Jason… Read more |
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Mechdyne Corporation Licenses CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment from the University of Illinois at Chicago
Mechdyne Corporation March 5, 2013 EDITOR’S NOTE: The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) licensed the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment to Mechdyne Corporation… Read more |
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Associated Press releases print and video stories about UIC / EVL CAVE2™ System
February 20, 2013 Today the Associated Press issued the following article, photographs and video about the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s CAVE2™… Read more |
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NextMed MMVR20 Conference
Daria Tsoupikova, School of Art & Design University of Illinois at Chicago February 20, 2013 - February 23, 2013 EVL associate professor, Daria Tsoupikova presents her collaborative research at the 2013 NextMed NMVR20 Conference in San Diego, CA… Read more |
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SPIE 2013, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality
Alessandro Febretti February 4, 2013 - February 5, 2013 EVL PhD candidate Alessandro Febretti discusses the CAVE2™ instrumentation research and developed at the annual IS&T / SPIE Electronic… Read more |
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University of Illinois at Chicago: Virtual Reality’s CAVE™ Pioneer
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh February 4, 2013 The CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment, developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is… Read more |
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State-of-the-Art Virtual Reality System Is Key to Medical Discovery
Thomas Marrinan, Bioengineering Laboratory for Product and Process Design (LPPD), UIC College of Medicine December 12, 2012 UIC’s new CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment is only two months old, and is already helping UIC neurosurgeons and bioengineering… Read more |
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Move over, Holodeck
Arthur Nishimoto November 28, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are excerpts from a recent article by Northwestern University journalism student Mitch Smith on standing on the bridge of… Read more |
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Move over NASA: Explore the surface of Mars with virtual reality
Andrew Johnson, UIC Associate Professor; David Hofman, UIC Professor / Acting Head, UIC Physics Department; Mark SubbaRao, Astronomer / Director, Space Visualization Laboratory, Adler Planetarium October 30, 2012 The UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) CAVE2™ Virtual-Reality System is profiled in a recent news article by a Northwestern… Read more |
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VisWeek 2012
Thomas Marrinan, Ian Gould, Chih-Yang Hsu, Andreas Linninger October 14, 2012 - October 19, 2012 EVL PhD candidate Thomas Marrinan presents Whole-Brain Vascular Reconstruction, Simulation, and Visualization at VisWeek 2012 in Seattle, Washington… Read more |
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CAVE2™ - An Advanced Cyberworld for Data Exploration
EVL faculty, staff, and students October 3, 2012 CHICAGO, OCTOBER 3, 2012 - Today, most professions rely on computers to capture, filter, analyze and visualize data. When studying phenomena too… Read more |
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UIC NEWS profiles CS student Jillian Aurisano: bridging the gender gap
Jillian Aurisano September 2, 2012 The September 2, 2012 issue of UIC NEWS profiles Computer Science MS student Jillian Aurisano. She’s a woman who is working in a field where… Read more |
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Hirofumi Ida, Virtual-reality in health and sports science
May 30, 2012 Dr. Hirofumi Ida, Research Associate, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago and Research Fellow, Department of Human… Read more |
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Innovative virtual reality technology revolutionizes stroke therapy
Daria Tsoupikova March 1, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: Two Northwestern University Medill School journalism students spent a week at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)… Read more |
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1998 research paper wins an award!
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh February 25, 2012 February 25, 2012 Jason Leigh and Andy Johnson of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) recently learned that a paper they helped… Read more |
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LEARNING IN 3D
November 16, 2011 EDITOR’S NOTE: Last week the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory introduced a 3D version of its popular Cyber-Commons’… Read more |
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SAGE HIGHLIGHTS @ SC11
EVL faculty, staff, and students November 14, 2011 - November 18, 2011 SAGE, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment, is a graphics streaming architecture that enables users to interactively access, display and share… Read more |
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New UIC ‘Cyber-Commons’ Wall Pops with 3-D Imagery
November 9, 2011 by Paul Francuch, UIC NEWS November 9, 2011 Seamlessly-tiled LCD flat-screen displays stretching floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall at the University… Read more |
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Virtual Audio Reality, Dylan Menzies
October 19, 2011 Dr. Dylan Menzies (Department of Media Technology, De Montfort University, UK) presents his research in audio signal processing, physical acoustics… Read more |
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VARRIER IS RETIRED: SPACE RENOVATION FOR NEXT-GENERATION INNOVATION
EVL faculty, staff, and students September 14, 2011 September 14, 2011 - Today, the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) retired and dismantled Varrier, a unique tiled-display, head-tracked… Read more |
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Supervised Hybrid Expression Control Framework for a Lifelike Affective Avatar
Sangyoon Lee, Advisor: Andrew Johnson, Committee: Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Barbara Eugenio, Steve Jones September 2, 2011 EVL PhD candidate Sangyoon Lee presents his preliminary examination for doctoral dissertation: Friday, September 2, 2011, 10AM, EVL Cyber-Commons… Read more |
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Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and…
Project LifeLike research team April 19, 2011 In the new book Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson take… Read more |
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Visualization pioneer creates virtual worlds
Daniel J. Sandin March 16, 2011 Dan Sandin may be Co-founder and Director Emeritus of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and Professor Emeritus of the UIC School of… Read more |
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IE 494: Haptics & Augmented Reality
Cristian J. Luciano January 11, 2011 - May 7, 2011 Are you interested in learning a cool 3D-touch technology? EVL collaborator, Research Assistant Professor Cristian Luciano (MIE) introduces… Read more |
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IVA 2010
Sangyoon Lee September 20, 2010 - September 22, 2010 Ph.D. candidate, Sangyoon Lee presents EVL’s research on creating LifeLike avatars at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual… Read more |
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A New Vision for 3D Takes Shape in Pennsylvania
Jason Leigh September 2, 2010 The human head contains two eyes. When we step into the real world, the ability to use our eyes to perceive length, width and depth is as essential… Read more |
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EVL Education & Outreach: Chicago State University
EVL faculty, staff, and students July 9, 2010 On July 9, 2010, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Associate Professor Andy Johnson of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and… Read more |
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Medicine’s Next Frontier
EVL faculty, staff, and students June 26, 2010 The article Medicine’s Next Frontier by Sandra Guy appeared in the June 26, 2010 issue of the Chicago Sun-Times. It reports on a major new… Read more |
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PhD Dissertation: Open Surgery Training Simulator
Cristian J. Luciano, Chairperson: Professor Pat Banerjee June 24, 2010 Open Surgery Training Simulator Using Haptics and Augmented Reality Technologies This thesis focuses on the R&D of a novel Haptics-based… Read more |
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Immortal Avatars: Back Up Your Brain, Never Die
EVL faculty, staff, and students June 7, 2010 The June 7, 2010 issue of “New Scientist” magazine has an article by Linda Geddes on current research to create lifelike digital… Read more |
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EVL Awarded NSF MRI (NG-CAVE)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Thomas Peterka, Maxine Brown May 1, 2010 - April 30, 2013 The National Science Foundation has awarded UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory a Major Research Instrumentation grant MRI-R2… Read more |
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CBS news profiles UIC’s BVis (and EVL technologies)
Luc Renambot, EVL faculty, staff, and students April 21, 2010 CBS Chicago evening news recently profiled UIC’s Biomedical Visualization (BVis) program, part of the College of Applied Health Sciences and a… Read more |
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Project LifeLike Received First Place in the UIC Image of Research 2010 Competition
Sangyoon Lee April 6, 2010 Sanyoon Lee, a PhD student in the UIC Department of Computer Science and a Research Assistant in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), won… Read more |
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2010 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Alejandro Borsani, Andrew Oleksiuk, Arunan Rabindran, Benjamin Thorp, Heejoo Kim, Joseph Baldwin, Julio Obelleiro, Tesia Kosmalski, Jeremy Tubbs March 16, 2010 - April 17, 2010 The 2010 Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) exhibitions for Electronic Visualization (EV) students will be held co-jointly with Visual Art, Photography and… Read more |
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Andy Johnson Feature (Medill School)
Andrew Johnson, Northwestern University’s Medill School March 16, 2010 In January, EVL hosted a class of journalism students from Northwestern University’s Medill School; their visit consisted of an overview of… Read more |
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Glasses-free 3D
Andrew Johnson, EVL faculty, staff, and students March 9, 2010 by Thomas Forrest, Medill Reports - Chicago, Northwestern University MARCH 9, 2010 - You’re in the far depths of space and turn your head to… Read more |
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UIC’s Impact Magazine
EVL faculty, staff, and students March 1, 2010 - March 31, 2010 In March 2010, UIC published Impact magazine, showcasing UIC’s endeavors, “?…that have made and will continue to make lasting… Read more |
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Multimedia Systems 2010
Sungwon Nam, Venkat Vishwanath (Argonne National Laboratory), Sachin Deshpande (Sharp Laboratories of America), Byungil Jeong (Texas Advanced Computing Center) February 22, 2010 - February 23, 2010 EVL PhD candidate, Sungwon Nam presents the results of the latest research and improvements for intertile synchronization of ultra-high resolution… Read more |
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Virtual Reality Environment Assisting Recovery from Stroke
Daria Tsoupikova, Nikolay Stoykov, Bioengineering, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), Randy Vick, Art Therapy, School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) December 19, 2009 A networked demonstration of the collaborative project Virtual Reality Environment Assisting Recovery from Stroke premiered at the SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009… Read more |
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SAGE HIGHLIGHTS @ SC09
EVL faculty, staff, and students November 17, 2009 Want to create “cyber-mashups” and easily juxtapose information on tiled display walls? SAGE is the answer. SAGE provides a common… Read more |
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Teaching Doctors Using Stereoscopic Imaging at AAO 2009
Luc Renambot, EVL, Rick Fiscella, UIC Department of Pharmacy Practice (PHARM) October 24, 2009 - October 27, 2009 October 30, 2009 - Teaching doctors about eye diseases using stereoscopic computer-graphics imaging was well received at this week’s American… Read more |
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The High-Tech Future of Body Language
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, and collaborators at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Computer Architecture Laboratory October 22, 2009 The October 22, 2009 edition of the WASHINGTON POST has an article by Carol Kinsey Goman on “The High-Tech Future of Body Language”… Read more |
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Popular Science’s Future Of Immortality
Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones, and collaborators at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Computer Architecture Laboratory October 19, 2009 October 19, 2009 - The Discovery Network’s Science Channel airs the series “POPULAR SCIENCE’S FUTURE OF.” Hosted by author… Read more |
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Ultra-high-speed, made ultra-easy
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, EVL research staff October 14, 2009 The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) was recently awarded a three-year, $1.9-Million grant from the… Read more |
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Maxine Brown Newman Lecture Keynote Speaker
Maxine Brown October 13, 2009 The Chicago Community Trust’s 8th annual Newman Lecture and Dinner will feature Maxine Brown as the event’s keynote speaker, Tuesday… Read more |
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Popular Science’s: Future of Immortality program features EVL’s LifeLike Avatar Research
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones, (EVL), Avelino J Gonzalez, Ronald F DeMara (University of Central Florida) October 12, 2009 - October 14, 2009 Popular Science’s: Future of Immortality program that airs October 12th through 14th on Discovery’s “The Science Channel”… Read more |
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Advancing Robotic Surgery Using High-Performance Visualization and Networking Technologies
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Patrick Hallihan October 9, 2009 - October 10, 2009 The Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA) will hold its first meeting October 9-10, 2009, just prior to the 95th annual meeting of the American… Read more |
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Calit2 and EVL: CAVEwave, OptIPuter as Catalysts for Wide-Ranging Innovations
EVL researchers and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego collaborators September 29, 2009 Read the complete article on the National LambdaRail website. The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at… Read more |
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New Saudi University Opens Its Doors - and Stunning Visualization Facilities
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego and EVL research staff September 25, 2009 Read the full press release on the Calit2 website New Saudi University Opens Its Doors - and Stunning Visualization Facilities Display and VR Systems… Read more |
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UIC’s EVL Makes Global Science Networking More User Friendly
EVL faculty, staff, and students September 23, 2009 The September 2009 issue of the Illinois Science & Technology Coalition’s online ISTC Catalyst newsletter features examples of technology… Read more |
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Immersive Education article highlights UIC EVL Cyber-Commons
EVL faculty, staff, and students September 1, 2009 Jason Leigh and UIC are cited in the article “Best of Both Worlds” by author Rama Ramaswami in the September 2009 issue of Campus… Read more |
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NSF STCI Proposal Awarded to UIC / EVL
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown August 18, 2009 The National Science Foundation has awarded the Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s proposal STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent… Read more |
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Scientific and BioMedical Visualization panels for the Computer Animation Festival at the SIGGRAPH 2009
Cole Krumbholz, Daria Tsoupikova, Helen-Nicole Kostis, NASA / GSFC-Scientific Visualization Studio, MITRE Corp., NCSA University of IL, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, California Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School & Digizyme, Inc., Institute for Creative Technologies & School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern CA, University of MD Baltimore County & Scientific Visualization Studio, NASA / GSFC, Universities Space Research Assoc., SARL IMA Solutions, University of CA, San Francisco School of Medicine August 5, 2009 - August 6, 2009 EVL alumnae Helen-Nicole Kostis and Cole Krumbholz join Daria Tsoupikova, EVL Associate Professor to curate two new panels on Scientific and… Read more |
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SIGGRAPH 2009 Information Aesthetics Showcase
Daria Tsoupikova, Robert Kooima August 3, 2009 - August 7, 2009 EVL Associate Professor, Daria Tsoupikova in collaboration with EVL PhD alumni, Robert Kooima, Louisiana State University exhibit Passing Place for… Read more |
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Chicago programs teach collaboration as the newest trend in gaming
June 10, 2009 To read the complete article and see a related video visit the Medill webiste. by Kathryn Murphy June 10, 2009 Gamer’s obsessions vary. It… Read more |
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From pictures to pixels: interactive visualization explained
EVL faculty, staff, and students May 20, 2009 To read the full article and see a related video visit the Medill Reports Chicago. by Kathryn Murphy May 20, 2009 Since helping to digitize the… Read more |
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The Next Best Thing to You
Jason Leigh, EVL research staff, Avelino Gonzalez, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Central Florida May 15, 2009 Link to the full NSF press release Also posted to U.S. News & World Report May 15, 2009 New avatar technology combines advances in artificial… Read more |
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Science Chicago Visits EVL
EVL faculty, staff, and students February 21, 2009 Science Chicago is a year-long initiative that brings together more than 80 of the area’s leading academic, scientific, corporate and… Read more |
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EVL Demonstrates Hands-On Display Technology at AAAS 2009
Alan Verlo, Dana M. Plepys, Ed Kahler, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Lance Long, Laura Wolf, Maxine Brown, Patrick Hallihan, Ratko Jagodic, Venkatram Vishwanath, Yu-Chung Chen February 13, 2009 - February 15, 2009 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory demonstrated its TacTile multi-touch system in the National Science Foundation’s booth at the 2009… Read more |
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The Power of Image, Brain, and Hand in Rehabilitation
Daria Tsoupikova, (UIC / EVL), Nikolay Stoykov. PhD. (RIC), Randy M. Vick. MS. ATR-BC. LCPC. (SAIC) January 31, 2009 The development of the current phase of the ongoing research project Virtual Reality Environment Assisting Recovery from Stroke that employs the use… Read more |
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Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Yu-Chung Chen, Major advisor: Andrew Johnson, Committee members: Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Tom Moher and Emi Ito January 26, 2009 EVL / CS PhD Candidate Yu-Chung Chen presents his preliminary proposal Immersive Empathic Design for Interdisciplinary Collaborations, January 26… Read more |
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UIC Technology Aids Obama Inaugural Security
EVL researchers in collaboration with Brian Davis, USGS EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, S.D. January 13, 2009 Pictured Right: Brian Davis, a contractor for the USGS EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., and James Cason, Deputy Secretary of the Department of… Read more |
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Project LifeLike at NSF I/UCRC Meeting 2009
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Sangyoon Lee January 7, 2009 - January 9, 2009 EVL demonstrates Project LifeLike at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) annual Industry & University Cooperative Research (I/UCRC)… Read more |
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OptIPortal Facilitates Logistics & Security Planning for Inauguration
Dmitri Svistula, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Luc Renambot, Brian Davis, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center December 22, 2008 Logistics and security planning for the 2009 Presidential inauguration is being facilitated by EVL’s OptIPortal display technology. In… Read more |
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SPIKE, a network performance event
Andrew Oleksiuk, Joe Reitzer December 11, 2008 Date: Thursday, December 11, 2009 Time: Afternoon SPIKE is a collaborative network performance event by Andrew Oleksiuk at the University of Illinois… Read more |
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Make Me an Offer
Andrew Oleksiuk, Lindsay Grace, Alex Jovanovich, Caroline Anderson, Christian Rieben, Clare Rosean, David Opie, Derek Haverland, Diana Baumbac, Francine LeClercq, Jessica Westbrook, Karissa Lang, Matthew Metzger, Paul Sedan, Phil McCollam, Susan Adame December 9, 2008 - January 23, 2009 Make Me an Offer is a themed gallery exhibition seeking to emphasize the growing ambiguity between commercial arts and fine arts. It seeks to… Read more |
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Global Visualcasting - Collaborative Remote Visualization Over High Speed Networks
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, SHARP Laboratories of America, OptIPlanet Collaboratory partners November 18, 2008 SC08 Bandwidth Challenge Session Unleashing the Power of the Network Tuesday, 01:45PM - 02:00PM Room 17A/17B Abstract Advanced networks are giving… Read more |
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SDSC Partners with Calit2, EVL, UC San Diego Sustainability Program and CENIC to Highlight “Green” Technologies and Applications
EVL / UIC, collaborators from the University of San Diego and CENIC November 14, 2008 UC San Diego Goes “Green” at SC08 The San Diego Supercomputer Center and two other UC San Diego entities are combining forces to showcase… Read more |
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Planetary-scale Terrain Composition, PhD Dissertation Robert L. Kooima
Robert Kooima October 23, 2008 Many inter-related planetary height map and surface image map data sets exist, and more data are collected each day. Broad communities of scientists… Read more |
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California Scientists Demonstrate How to Use Advanced Fiber-Optic Backbone for Research
Laura Wolf, Maxine Brown, conference organizers, EVL research team October 9, 2008 Read Calit2’s complete press release at: www.calit2.net/newsroom/article.php?id=1396 San Diego, Oct. 9, 2008 - How can super-fast networking… Read more |
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September 2008 Issue of Campus Technology Showcases EVL’s LambdaTable
Andrew Johnson, Dmitri Svistula, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic September 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008 The September 2008 issue of Campus Technology carries a higher education brief of EVL’s recently awarded National Science Foundation major… Read more |
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Darshan Bhatt Presents Computer Science Masters Thesis WallCology
Darshan Bhatt, Tom Moher August 28, 2008 Darshan Bhatt defends his master’s thesis Thursday, August 28, at 11am in the EVL presentation space Room 2068. WallCology: Design of a… Read more |
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Pacific Rim International University lecture at Osaka University
Jason Leigh July 1, 2008 - July 2, 2008 Jason Leigh delivers a lecture to Osaka University students titled: Global Cyber-Commons: Supporting Global Collaborative Research, Development and… Read more |
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IPS2008: Explore the Edge
Robert Kooima June 27, 2008 - July 2, 2008 EVL PhD candidate and researcher Robert Kooima participates in the 19th International Planetarium Society Conference (Adler Planetarium &… Read more |
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Optical Network is Key to Next-Generation Research Cyberinfrastructure
Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Luc Renambot June 11, 2008 At TeraGrid ’08 Conference, UC San Diego’s Smarr Urges University Campuses to Remove Network Bottlenecks to Supercomputer Users San… Read more |
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EVL Alumni Javier Girado Helps QUALCOMM Develop Tomorrow’s Cell
Javier Girado March 31, 2008 UC SAN DIEGO NEWS March 31, 2008 Argentine Researcher Helps Leading U.S. Wireless Company Develop Tomorrow’s Cell Phones Please click this link… Read more |
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5th Brown Bag Interdisciplinary Lunch: Visualization
Daniel Sauter, Jason Leigh, Annette Valenta March 10, 2008 EVL faculty Jason Leigh, Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of EVL, and Daniel Sauter, Assistant Professor School of Art &… Read more |
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EVL Receives JGN2 Award
Jason Leigh, EVL faculty, staff, and students January 17, 2008 NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) has awarded the University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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UIC Researchers Probing New Modes of Creative Instruction and Collaboration Enabled by Gigabit R&E Networks
Jason Leigh November 7, 2007 - January 7, 2008 November 7, 2007 Broadcasting Live from Chicago in High-Definition, It’s Video Game Design Class! UIC Researchers Probing New Modes of Creative… Read more |
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Visualizing Networks of Innovation - Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University
EVL faculty, staff, and students October 24, 2007 Investigators: Tim Lenoir (PI), John Madden, Cathy Davidson Senior Personnel: Rachael Brady Knowledge of how to support the growth and diffusion of… Read more |
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Virtual Humans for Interpersonal Interaction Education
Andrew B. Raij, Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department, University of Florida October 18, 2007 Thursday, October 18, 2007 11:00a.m. - 12:00p.m. Andrew B. Raij will discuss the development and recent advances of the Virtual OSCE (VOSCE). The… Read more |
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EVL’s Lambda Table puts science at your fingertips
Andrew Johnson, Dmitri Svistula, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Lance Long, Laura Wolf, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Tom Peterka October 15, 2007 by Eli Ortiz Chicago Flame On-line Issue date: 10/15/07 Section: Features The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) hosted an open house for… Read more |
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Visualization for Geoscientists
Andrew Johnson, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Yu-Chung Chen October 8, 2007 Apple :: Science :: Profiles The Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago has been the source of many widely used… Read more |
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Withindows: A Unified Framework for the Development of Desktop and Immersive User Interfaces (Dissertation Defense, Alex Hill)
Alex Hill October 1, 2007 Withindows: A Unified Framework for the Development of Desktop and Immersive User Interfaces Prior 3D user interface research has been strongly… Read more |
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The Virtual Eye / Virtual House Project Wins the Netter Award
Cole Krumbholz, Jason Leigh, Mary Rasmussen, Robert Kooima, Richard Fiscella, Zhuming Ai, Bei Jin, Scott Dixon, Kaitlyn Hwang, Elina Mer, Andrea Stevenson, Angela Brady, Ray Evenhouse, Sam Shlomo Spaeth, Robert Parshall July 18, 2007 - July 21, 2007 The Virtual Reality in Medicine Lab (VRMedLab) is very pleased to announce that the Virtual Reality application, “The Virtual Eye / Virtual… Read more |
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Universal Communication: Unifying Ubiquitous Communication, Telepresence and Tele-immersion
June 4, 2007 - June 6, 2007 Telepresence and virtual reality technologies invented in university laboratories over a decade ago, are now being commercialized and adopted by… Read more |
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UIC Working on Making Virtual Chats a Reality
Jason Leigh June 4, 2007 Chicago Tribune INSIDE TECHNOLOGY UIC Working on Making Virtual Chats a Reality By Jon Van June 4, 2007 In five or six years, you probably will be… Read more |
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EVL Director Discusses Advanced Techniques In LSU Center For Computation & Technology Distinguished Lecture
May 29, 2007 2007-May-29 Baton Rouge - Sight is a person’s primary sense, and one-third of a person’s brainpower is spent processing visual images… Read more |
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Producing High-Definition Hyperstereoscopic Video at SVR2007
Helen-Nicole Kostis May 28, 2007 - May 31, 2007 EVL alumna, Helen-Nicole Kostis presented an invited 4 hour minicourse at the SVR 2007 - IX Symposium of Virtual and Augmented Reality 2007, on… Read more |
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Emerging From The CAVE: Advanced Visualization And Collaboration Research At The Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Jason Leigh May 24, 2007 EVL Director, Jason Leigh presents EVL’s latest research in advanced visualization techniques and technologies to the Center for Computation… Read more |
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Videoconferencing goes high-definition Long-distance meetings are being held using full-size images of people whose expressions and body language can be read
Jason Leigh May 14, 2007 By Jon Van Tribune staff reporter Published May 14, 2007 Hiring someone based solely on a phone interview or a videoconference meeting is something… Read more |
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Jason Leigh presents EVL Research to UC Santa Barbara’s Interative Digital Multimedia IGERT Members
Jason Leigh April 27, 2007 Title of the Talk: “Emerging from the CAVE: Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Research at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory”… Read more |
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EVL in Chicago Tribune: Toll signs take new direction
Jason Leigh April 23, 2007 Toll signs take new direction: Experiment aims to boost safety by Jon Hilkevitch, Chicago Tribune Getting Around column… Read more |
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EVL Demo Presentation for Sharp Labs
Jason Leigh, EVL Staff and Students April 19, 2007 Dr. Yasuhiro Yoshida from Sharp Japan and Dr. Ibrahim Sezan from Sharp Labs US visited EVL to get an overview of the lab’s advanced… Read more |
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IEEE Virtual Reality 2007
Daniel J. Sandin, Daria Tsoupikova, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Javier Girado, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka, Xun Luo March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 EVLers participate at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2007 Conference (IEEE VR’07) with the following presentations: Sunday, March 11, 2007 WORKSHOP… Read more |
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CAVE Inventors Receive IEEE Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 The inventors of the CAVE - Thomas DeFanti, Daniel Sandin, and Carolina Cruz-Neira have been named by the IEEE VGTC VR Awards Committee as the 2007… Read more |
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Tom Peterka Wins Best Paper at IEEE VR2007
Tom Peterka, Robert Kooima, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Daniel Sandin, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jurgen Schulze, Thomas DeFanti March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 EVL computer science doctoral candidate Tom Peterka received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2007 (IEEE VR2007), for… Read more |
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EVL and Calit2 Researchers Share in Two IEEE Virtual Reality Awards
Andrew Johnson, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka, Jurgen Schulze (Calit2) March 10, 2007 - March 14, 2007 Please click on this link for the full text of this article San Diego, CA and Chicago, IL, March 16, 2007 - Researchers from the University of… Read more |
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IS&T / SPIE International Symposium 2007
Brenda Lopez Silva, Daniel J. Sandin, Daria Tsoupikova, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Robert Kooima, Tom Peterka January 28, 2007 - February 1, 2007 EVLers participate at the IS&T / SPIE 19th Annual Symposium: Electronic Imaging / Science and Technology with the following paper presentations… Read more |
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Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Research over High-Speed Networks
Luc Renambot December 13, 2006 - December 14, 2006 EVL Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Luc Renambot presented EVL’s advanced visualiztion and networking research to colleagues and… Read more |
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StarFlight Astronomy Visualization Exhibit Opens in Mexico City’s Laboratorio Arte Alameda
Brenda Lopez Silva, Laura Wolf, Nicholas Schwarz, Robert Kooima, Timothy Donaghy, Keith Vanderlinde, Staci Willis, James Sweitzer November 28, 2006 - February 11, 2007 StarFlight, an interactive virtual reality application that explores the three-dimensional nature of constellations, opens in Mexico City’s… Read more |
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DeFanti Recognized with Outstanding Research Achievement Award
Thomas A. DeFanti November 2, 2006 Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and EVL co-director Tom DeFanti is being honored with an Outstanding Research Achievement award by… Read more |
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LiveBox Gallery presents UNFOLDING SPACE by Julieta Aguilera in collaboration with Andy Johnson
Andrew Johnson, Julieta Aguilera October 20, 2006 - November 25, 2006 UNFOLDING SPACE The tridimensional shadow of a four dimensional textured grid unfolds in a virtual reality environment. Julieta Aguilera places the… Read more |
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EVL’s Varrier Technology Advances
Daniel J. Sandin, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka September 27, 2006 EVL researchers, PhD candidates Robert Kooima and Tom Peterka complete advancements in EVL’s Varrier™ Autostereo display system research… Read more |
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e-Art… Art… Net… Technology… Society… Democracy…
Drew Browning, Franz Fischnaller, Jason Leigh, Kapil Arora, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Ya Lu Lin, Prof. Franz Fischnaller, Editori Riuniti (Rome, Italy), Daniela Voto, F.A.B.R.I.CATORS, Manuel Viñas Limonchi, Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. (Rome, Italy) September 1, 2006 September, 2006, e-Art… Art… Net… Technology… Society… Democracy? …book by Franz Fischnaller will be… Read more |
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Presentations on Advanced Visualization and Collaboration at universities in Rio De Janeiro
Jason Leigh, Paul Morin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota and National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics August 14, 2006 - September 18, 2006 Dr. Frederico Pereira Laier of the Universidade Federal do Rio De Janeiro (UFRJ) invited Jason Leigh and Paul Morin to give presentations on… Read more |
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Rutopia 2 Presented at the Virtual Reality SubFest, Buffalo, NY
Daria Tsoupikova August 3, 2006 - August 6, 2006 The virtual reality art project Rutopia 2 was presented at the Virtual Reality SubFest organized by Dave Pape and presented by Virtual Reality… Read more |
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Dr. Maria Roussou
Maria Roussou, Department of Computer Science, University College London July 18, 2006 EVL graduate Maria Roussou completed requirements for a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University College of London, Department of Computer… Read more |
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Rutopia 2 - Virtual Walk-Through Presented at the IV06, London
Daria Tsoupikova July 5, 2006 - July 7, 2006 Rutopia 2, virtual walk-through video animation was presented at the 7th International Symposium of Computer Animation and Visual Effects, IV06-CAVE… Read more |
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Chicago Map Society Visits EVL
Andrew Johnson May 23, 2006 Andrew Johnson gave a presentation and series of demonstrations on EVL’s high resolution and 3D display technology to the Chicago Map Society… Read more |
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DRAWING CURRENT - MFA Thesis Exhibition
Helen-Nicole Kostis, HyeYun Park, Melissa Golter, Poliana Tassini, Sangyoon Lee, Tina Shah May 12, 2006 - May 15, 2006 DRAWING CURRENT is the first large group MFA thesis exhibitions featurning a broad range of electronic visualization mediated artwork by six… Read more |
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Professor Tom Moher named UIC Great Cities Scholar for 2006 - 2007
Tom Moher May 1, 2006 - April 30, 2007 UIC College of Engineering News Professor Tom Moher has been named a UIC Great Cities Scholar for the academic year 2006-2007. Moher, the first… Read more |
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EVL PhD Student Tom Peterka Awarded the University Fellowship for 2006-7
Tom Peterka April 20, 2006 - May 15, 2007 EVL congratulates PhD student, Tom Peterka on being awarded the University’s Fellowship for the academic year 2006-7. Tom was chosen for this… Read more |
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EVL Showcases Research in NLR Exhibit at SC ’05
Alan Verlo, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Laura Wolf, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Nicholas Schwarz, Robert Kooima, Tom Peterka, Venkatram Vishwanath November 12, 2005 - November 18, 2005 EVL participates at SC|05 as an OptIPuter partner in the National LambdaRail booth (#6003), showcasing hardware and software developed with major… Read more |
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OptIPuter Exhibited at SC05
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Lance Long, Laura Wolf, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Ratko Jagodic, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka, Venkatram Vishwanath November 12, 2005 - November 18, 2005 RESEARCH EXHIBITS Calit2 and Center for Earth Observations and Applications (booth 6107) Transforming Scientific Discovery Through Telecom and IT… Read more |
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EVL Participates in Newberry Library’s Teachers and Scholars Program
Andrew Johnson October 2, 2003 - October 27, 2003 Andrew Johnson gave a tutorial “Towards the Holodeck: Advanced Visualization and Collaboration Environments” at UIC as part of the… Read more |
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Round Earth Video Shown During SIGGRAPH 99 Evening Show
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jim Costigan, Joseph Alexander (1973-2017), Tom Moher, Stellan Ohlsson, Mark Gillingham August 8, 1999 - August 13, 1999 A video documenting the Round Earth Project was selected to be part of the Electronic Theater at SIGGRAPH 99, and was shown at Mann’s Chinese… Read more |
