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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
