Virtual reality research at WID is focused on advancing the field of virtual reality, ranging from creating novel and natural interfaces for immersive virtual environments to developing methods, techniques, and tools to better understand, evaluate, and develop interactive virtual experiences. The challenges and benefits of this research span across many disciplines.
Virtual reality researchers engage in projects with departments such as Industrial and Systems Engineering, Design Studies, Library and Information Studies, Nursing, Art, Dance as well as projects in Digital Humanities.
Virtual reality is a key component of WID’s Data Science Hub.
For WID’s Kevin Ponto, virtual reality is more than a way of playing video games or simulating roller coaster rides. He thinks VR can be a tool for solving real-world problems.
Role of perceptual features (e.g. color) in cognitive processing and information visualization
Using virtual reality to understand the way patients handle their home care in their environment.
Design and implement new and existing files, websites, and programs.
Preparing the hololens for presentations and diving deeper into learning about the technology
Research Assistant
Observing how the built environment influences health outcomes.
Analysis of various virtual reality techniques to further improve their technologies.
CaSP is joining with the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery to amplify its voice on science policy issues. On October 4 in the Discovery Building, they host a panel on improving forensic science policy.
VR educational application in the form of an arcade game to teach kids a bit about polar research
The LEL is a space and a place where scholars explore the connections among environment, technology, human action, experience, and visualization, with expertise in virtual and augmented reality.
Investigating how observers make predictions about objects and entities based on their cognitive and emotional responses to perceptual information; focusing on how people’s associations with colors influence cognitive processing in aesthetic response, judgment and decision making, and interpretation of information visualizations.
Develop techniques to better the experience of virtual reality through new devices, interfaces, and techniques.
Senior Scientist
Use visualization to explore technologies to support management of health and illness in the home.
A day in the life of WID – check out our systems programmer, Ross Tredinnick, navigating a real home environment in the CAVE around 0:28 minutes. Note: the video above does not have any sound.
Assistant Professor
Visual perception and cognition in information visualization and virtual reality.
