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Electronic Visualization Laboratory’s 50th Anniversary Retrospective: Look to the Future, Build on the Past


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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
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, Piotr Brozek, Shrut Patel
May 15, 2020 - April 30, 2025

UIC PI: Luc Renambot University of Hawaii Manoa PI: Jason Leigh Virginia Polytechnic PI: Chirstopher North NSF Award Number: 2003800 Award Period of… Read more
COMPaaS DLV: Composable Platform as a Service Instrument for Deep Learning & Visualization
Andrew Johnson, G. Elisabeta Marai, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Mir Masood Ali, Timothy Bargo, Wei Tang, Zhongyi Chen
October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021

Project Period: October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021 September 9, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year grant to the UIC… Read more
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
SAGE2™ Scalable Amplified Group Environment
Andrew Burks, Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Jade Almaguer, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Krishna Bharadwaj, Kristine Lee, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Mirko Mantovani, Thomas Marrinan, Victor Mateevitsi
August 16, 2013 - Ongoing

SAGE™ software enables teams of users to manage their data in a room covered with displays, as if the room were one seamless canvas. SAGE lets… Read more
SpiderSense
Victor Mateevitsi
August 16, 2012 - February 7, 2013

SpiderSense is a wearable device that projects the wearer’s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around… Read more
Next-Generation CAVE
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Tom Peterka, Luc Renambot, Lance Long, Jonas Talandis, Daniel Sandin, Alan Verlo
May 1, 2009 - April 30, 2013

The Next-Generation CAVE Virtual Environment, or NG-CAVE, is a scientific instrument that enables researchers to visualize data in a fully immersive… Read more
CAVE2: Next-Generation Virtual-Reality and Visualization Hybrid Environment for Immersive Simulation and Information Analysis
Alan Verlo, Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, JD Pirtle, Jonas Talandis, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Tom Peterka
May 1, 2009 - Ongoing

CAVE2™, the next-generation large-scale virtual-reality environment, is a hybrid system that combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution… Read more
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
4 Megapixel Multi-Touch LCD Table Prototype
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Luc Renambot, Ed Kahler (EVL REU)
May 16, 2008 - November 15, 2008

The 4 Megapixel multi-touch LCD table prototype developed by EVL researchers focuses upon seamless and intuitive user interaction with the device… Read more
Dynallax: Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Tom Peterka, Jason Leigh, Andrew Johnson, Jurgen Schulze (UCSD), Thomas A. DeFanti
January 1, 2006 - Ongoing

Parallax barrier strip autostereoscopic virtual reality displays such as Varrier™ have been constructed by placing a barrier of lines in front… Read more
Personal Augmented Computing Environment (PACE)
Robert V. Kenyon, Xun Luo
August 16, 2005 - May 1, 2008

Personal Augmented Computing Environment (PACE) focuses upon the research challenges affecting the development of applications for personal mobile… Read more
ImmersaDesk4™
Andrew Johnson, Cristian J. Luciano, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti
April 15, 2005 - May 1, 2007

A Passive Stereo Virtual Reality System Using Circularly Polarized High Resolution LCD Panels The ImmersaDesk4™ (IDesk4™) is built from 2… Read more
TransLight / StarLight℠
Jade Almaguer, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Alan Verlo, Laura Wolf, Steve Sander, Patrick Hallihan, Lance Long, Linda Winkler, Rick Summerhill, Roberto Sabatino, Erik-Jan Bos, Kees Neggers, Joe Mambretti
February 1, 2005 - January 31, 2010

TransLight / StarLight℠ and TransLight / Pacific Wave℠ are complementary efforts funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to… Read more
Electro
Robert Kooima
August 16, 2004 - Ongoing

Electro is an application development environment designed for use on both cluster-driven tiled displays and desktop systems. Electro is based on the… Read more
LambdaTable
Andrew Johnson, Cole Krumbholz, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh
August 1, 2004 - June 17, 2009

The LambdaTable is a tiled LCD tabletop display connected to high-bandwidth optical networks that supports interactive group-based visualization of… Read more
CoreWall
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Yu-Chung Chen, Paul Morin (University of Minnesota)
May 16, 2004 - May 15, 2011

CoreWall is an integrated visualization tool for the study of lake and ocean sediment cores. It is a collaborative project among the University of… Read more
LambdaVision
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Charles Zhang, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Nicholas Schwarz, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Venkatram Vishwanath
May 1, 2004 - August 31, 2008

LambdaVision is an ultra-high-resolution visualization and networking instrument for research and education in geoscience, computer science and other… Read more
The Personal GeoWall 2 (PG-2)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Arun Rao
January 1, 2004 - May 1, 2004

GeoWall is an affordable PC / Mac / Linux 3D passive-stereo projection display developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic… Read more
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
The OptIPuter
Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Moher, Larry Smarr (CalIT2), Bob Grossman (NCDM / UIC)
October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2007

related url: www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/optiputer The OptIPuter is a five-year, $13.9 million National Science Foundation funded project to interconnect… Read more
The GeoPad Project
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Paul Morin / University of Minnesota, Peter Knopp, Ben van der Pluijm, Peter van Keken / University of Michigan, Brian Davis / US Geological Survey
September 1, 2002 - May 15, 2003

The GeoPad project is an extension of the collaboration of geoscientist and computer scientist initiated with the GeoWall Consortium. The focus of… Read more
C-Wall (Configurable Wall)
Alan Verlo, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2005

The C-Wall is a high-quality, tracked, circularly polarized passive stereo wall, which could also be adapted to active stereo using Mirage DLP… Read more
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
ImmersaView
Allan Spale, Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh, Vikas Chowdry
August 1, 2001 - July 30, 2002

Immersaview is an Open Inventor / VRML model viewer for the GeoWall / AGAVE. The data can be a single Inventor model or a flipbook of models that you… Read more
Personal Varrier™ Autostereo Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka
August 1, 2001 - August 31, 2005

The Personal Varrier™ display consists of a 30” LCD widescreen display with 2560x1600 native resolution. A photographic film barrier… Read more
GeoWall
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Jonas Talandis, Luc Renambot, Shalini Venkataraman, Thomas A. DeFanti
March 1, 2001 - August 1, 2005

The GeoWall, based on AGAVE technology, is low-cost, non-tracked, passive-stereo system that allows distributed audiences to view and interact with… Read more
AGAVE (Access Grid Autostereo Virtual Environment)
Daniel J. Sandin, Eric He, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Jonas Talandis, Shalini Venkataraman, Thomas A. DeFanti, Todd Margolis
September 1, 2000 - August 31, 2005

AGAVE (pronounced agavay) is a panel-based, head-tracked, barrier-strip auto-stereographic display, where the viewer does not wear stereo glasses… Read more
The Continuum Project
Andrew Johnson, Chris Rosenthal, Chris Scharver, Eric He, Gideon Goldman, Jason Leigh, Jonas Talandis, Kyoung Shin Park, Michael Lewis, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Shalini Venkataraman, Atul Nayak, Jinghua Ge, Brenda Silva, Joshua Eliason, Tomoko Imai, Abhinav Kapoor, Nikita Sawant, Ben Goldstein
January 1, 2000 - January 1, 2003

The goal of the Continuum Project is to develop integrated ubiquitous tools and environments and to study how these tools can be used to enhance… Read more
Access Grid
Allan Spale, Chris Rosenthal, Dana M. Plepys, Jonas Talandis, Vikas Chowdry, Gideon Goldman
January 1, 2000 - August 31, 2003

EVL is using the Access Grid (AG) project developed by Argonne National Laboratories (ANL) as the communications backbone for high-bandwidth… Read more
3D Avatars Using Depth from Stereo
Alex Hill, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Satheesh Subramanian, Vivek Rajan
July 1, 1999 - September 1, 2000

The 3D model of the person is obtained using depth from stereo. The range information obtained from depth from stereo is used to segment the… Read more
35 Panel Cylindrical Varrier™ Autostereo Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Javier Girado, Todd Margolis, Tom Peterka
January 1, 1999 - Ongoing

The Cylindrical Varrier™ display consists of 35 LCD panels tiled in a 7x5 configuration with a 6’x8’ footprint. A photographic film… Read more
PARIS™ : Personal Augmented Reality Immersive System
Andrew Johnson, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Maggie Rawlings, Michael Bogucki, Samroeng Thongrong, Thomas A. DeFanti, Xun Luo, Zhongwei Qui
September 1, 1998 - October 31, 2002

Twenty years ago, Ken Knowlton created a see-through display for Bell Labs using a half-silvered mirror mounted at an angle in front of a telephone… Read more
AccessBot
Alan Cruz, Alan Verlo, Dana M. Plepys, Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Jonas Talandis, Maggie Rawlings, Muhammad Ali Khan, Ray Fang, Tom DeFanti
May 1, 1998 - May 1, 2000

The goal of the AccessBot project is to provide a new form of access for the disabled that integrates teleconferencing with life-sized display… Read more
CAVE™ Tools
Jim Costigan
May 1, 1998 - October 5, 1998

The CAVE™ Tools class is a group of virtual input controls that can be used in the CAVE™ Virtual environment. They consist of three… Read more
ImmersaDesk3™
Andrew Johnson, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Gary Lindahl, Greg Dawe, Jason Leigh, Michael Bogucki, Thomas A. DeFanti
May 1, 1998 - July 1, 1998

The ImmersaDesk3™ is an experiment in desktop VR using a flat panel display. Our goal was to make a prototype with tracking and stereo for… Read more
Instrumentation Development for Human-Centered Tele-Immersion
Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti
January 9, 1998 - October 31, 2002

The UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) has six years of experience building first and second-generation virtual reality devices (the CAVE… Read more
Advanced Networking Research
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot
January 1, 1996 - Ongoing

Advanced Networking Research (ANR) has been a focus of EVL’s work over the last decade. The ANR encompasses the development of an advanced… Read more
ImmersaDesk2™
Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti
January 1, 1996 - May 1, 1997

The development of the ImmersaDesk2™ system in 1996 focused upon a number of design issues not addressed by the initial ImmersaDesk™… Read more
ImmersaDesk™
Daniel J. Sandin, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti
January 1, 1994 - December 1, 1994

The ImmersaDesk™ was developed in 1994 at EVL. It is a drafting table format VR display. It features a 67x50-inch rear-projected screen at a… Read more
PINCH Glove as VR Input Device
Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Jim Costigan, Matthew Szymanski
January 1, 1993 - May 15, 1993

Experiments are ongoing using PINCH™ gloves as an interactive input device to the CAVE, ImmersaDesk, PARIS and other virtual reality systems… Read more
The CAVE™ Virtual Reality Theater
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Pape, Greg Dawe, Thomas A. DeFanti
January 1, 1992 - January 1, 2002

CAVE™ The CAVE™ is a multi-person, room-sized, high-resolution 3D video and audio environment invented at EVL in 1991. Graphics are… Read more
CAVE™ Library
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Daniel J. Sandin, Dave Adamczyk, Dave Pape, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Marek Czernuszenko, Morteza Ghazisaedy, Thomas A. DeFanti, Bill Nickless, Bill Sherman
September 1, 1991 - September 30, 2001

The CAVE™ Library is an Application Programmers Interface (API) that provides the software environment / toolkit for developing virtual reality… Read more
Sayre Glove (first wired data glove)
Daniel J. Sandin, Thomas A. DeFanti, Richard Sayre
January 1, 1977

In 1977 Daniel J. Sandin and Thomas DeFanti created the first wired data glove based on an idea by Richard Sayre as a project for the National… Read more
GRASS (GRAphics Symbiosis System)
Thomas A. DeFanti
January 1, 1973 - January 1, 1974

GRASS (GRAphics Symbiosis System) was a programming language created to script vector graphics visual animations in 2D. The programing language was… Read more
Sandin Image Processor (IP)
Daniel J. Sandin
January 1, 1971 - January 1, 1973

Between 1971 and 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built the Sandin Image Processor (IP) a patch programmable analog computer for real-time manipulation… Read more

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