This should be a good talk tomorrow (FRI) down at UNM ARTSLab. --------------------------
GFX Café Seminar Friday March 28, 2008 12noon, ARTS Lab Black Box Theatre ** Note change of venue ** Food will be served TITLE: Virtual Windows: A framework for spatially-aware, ad-hoc visualization by Mark Waligora, Advanced Graphics Lab ABSTRACT: Spatially-aware systems have been used successfully in the past for the visualization of complex data sets because they allow the user to establish spatial relationships in the presented data. However, such systems have been limited to a single user or to specific display media and therefore do not offer the flexibility to handle a wide range of visualization applications. For this reason, they are not often used in the visualization community. In this talk, we present a novel system that allows multiple users to interact with data in an ad-hoc fashion and is capable of handling different kinds of display surfaces and modes of interaction. Our ad-hoc Virtual Window Framework provides multiple users with displays that can be manipulated and combined in physical space to view different portions of complex data sets in a corresponding virtual space. The displays function as "windows" which the user can look through to see into a virtual world, much like looking through a window of a house to see outside. We designed the system with flexibility in mind; we demonstrate this by using different kinds of display devices simultaneously for a wide variety of applications. Our system also works with augmented reality devices, one of which we have built at UNM, allowing us to use our windows to visualize data superimposed on real-world objects. We demonstrate the efficacy of our system by using it to visualize several complex, real- world data sets in a hands-on demonstration. This is joint work with Pradeep Sen and Joe Kniss. BIO: Mark Waligora got his BS from New Mexico Tech. He is currently an MS student in Computer Science at UNM, working with Prof. Pradeep Sen.eering University of New Mexico
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