CSI/INFT 979 - VR / Scientific Visualization (Spring 1998)

Dr. Jürgen Symanzik, Dr. Edward J. Wegman

• Lecture 2/5/98: VR Overview
  
  
  • Project Descriptions
    • Speech Recognition
    • Mini-Cave
  • VOILA! Voice Recognition (from http://voila.com/voicerec.htm - page no longer available)
  • Cruz-Neira, C. (1993) Virtual Reality Overview, SIGGRAPH '93 Course Notes #23, pp. 1-18.
  • Video: Virtual Reality - Immersed in High Performance Computing & Communications.
  • Brill, L. M. (8/1996) Hotbeds of Cool Research - Virtual Reality in the Lab, IRIS Universe, No. 36, pp. 60-62.
  • Lecture 2/05/98 - Slides: VR Overview
  
  
• Lecture 2/12/98: CAVE and C2 Technology
  
  
  • Cruz-Neira, C., Sandin, D. J., DeFanti, T. A., Kenyon, R. V., Hart, J. C. (1992) The Cave - Audio Visual Experience Automatic Virtual Environment, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 64-72.
  • Cruz-Neira, C., Sandin, D. J., DeFanti, T. A. (1993) Surround-Screen Projection-Based Virtual Reality: The Design and Implementation of the CAVE, ACM SIGGRAPH '93 Proceedings, Anaheim, CA, August 1993, pp. 135-142.
  • Cruz-Neira, C., Leigh, J., Papka, M., Barnes, C., Cohen, S. M., Das, S., Engelmann, R., Hudson, R., Roy, T., Siegel, L., Vasilakis, C., DeFanti, T. A., Sandin, D. J. (1993) Scientists in Wonderland: A Report on Visualization Applications in the CAVE Virtual Reality Environment, IEEE 1993 Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality, October 1993, pp. 59-66.
  • Lecture 2/12/98 - Slides: CAVE and C2 Technology
  • Hodges, L. F. (1992) Tutorial: Time-Multiplexed Stereoscopic Computer Graphics, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 20-30. [pp. 23-24 only]
  • Foley, J. D., van Dam, A., Feiner, S. K., Hughes J. F. (1990) Computer Graphics - Principles and Practice, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts. [Figures 6.4, 6.6, 6.13, Shear Transformation only]
  • Iowa Center for Emerging Manufacturing Technology, Iowa State University.
  • Drive-in Theater, Inside Iowa State, March 7, 1997.
  • Video: The Cave - A Virtual Reality Theater.
  • Video: Scientists in Wonderland.
  • Video: C2 Opening.
  
  
• Lecture 2/19/98: VR and Statistics
  
  
  • Wegman, E. J., Luo, Q., Chen, J. X. (1998) Immersive Methods for Exploratory Analysis, Computing Science and Statstics, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 206-214.
  • Cook, D. (1998) Dynamic Statistical Data Exploration in the C2, http://www.public.iastate.edu/~dicook/research/C2/statistic.html.
  • Rossini, A. J., West, R. W. (1998) Virtual Reality and Statistical Research, Computing Science and Statistics, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 215-219.
  • Lecture 2/19/98 - Slides: VR and Statistics
  • Video: Dynamic Statistical Graphics in a Highly Immersive Environment.
  • Video: Interaction Tools for Dynamic Statistical Graphics in a Highly Immersive Environment.
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• Lecture 2/26/98: VR User Interfaces - Today & Tomorrow
  
  
  • Patch, K., Smalley, E. (1998) Speech Recognition Makes Some Noise, Infoworld, February 2, 1998, pp. 69, 74.
  • van Dam, A. (1997) Post-WIMP User Interfaces, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 63-67.
  • Lecture 2/26/98 - Slides: VR User Interfaces - Today & Tomorrow
  
  
• Lecture 3/5/98: Visual Statistical Strategies
  
  
  • Young, F. W., Lubinsky, D. J. (1995) Guiding Data Analysts with Visual Statistical Strategies, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 229-260 (incl. Discussion).
  • Lecture 3/05/98 - Slides: Visual Statistical Strategies
  • Group Progress Report
  
  
• Lecture 3/12/98: No Lecture - Spring Break
  
  
• Lecture 3/19/98
  
  
  • Group Progress Report
  
  
• Lecture 3/26/98: Human Factors & Risks of VR
  
  
  • Stanney, K. (1995) Realizing the Full Potential of Virtual Reality: Human Factor Issues that Could Stand in the Way, Proceedings of the Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium '95, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 28-34.
  • Stanney, K. M. Kennedy, R. S. (1997) The Psychometrics of Cybersickness, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 8, pp. 66-68.
  • Stanney, K., Kennedy, R. S. (1996) Human Factors Evaluation of Virtual Environments, 1996 SOUTHCON Conference Record, IEEE Operations Center, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 316-321. [handed out on 4/16/98 - not discussed]
  • Kaku, M. (1997) Visions - How Science will Revolutionize the 21st Century, Anchor Books (Doubleday), New York. [pp. 40-41 only]
  • Lecture 3/26/98 - Slides: Human Factors & Risks of VR
  • Group Progress Report
  
  
• Lecture 4/2/98
  
  
  • Group Progress Report
  
  
• Lecture 4/9/98
  
  
  • Group Progress Report
  
  
• Lecture 4/16/98: Talks & Presentations
  
  
  • Guidelines for Giving a Truly Terrible Talk.
  • Checklist for an Effective Statistical Presentation.
  • Freeman, D. H., Gonzalez, M. E., Hoaglin, D. C., Kilss, B. A. (1983) Presenting Statistical Papers, The American Statistician, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 106-110.
  • Becker, R. A., Keller-McNulty, S. (1995) Presentation Myths.
  • Ehrenberg, A. S. C. (1982) Writing Technical Papers or Reports, The American Statistician, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 326-329.
  • Guidelines for Meeting Participants, American Statistical Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
  • Group Progress Report
  
  
• Lecture 4/23/98: No Lecture - Groups prepare final presentation and demo
  
  
• Lecture 4/30/98
  
  
  • Final presentation and demo