WID Hubs Launch at Illuminating Connections Event
WID’s new hubs—Data Science, Multi-Omics, and Illuminating Discovery—represent a new path forward for collaborative research projects and fields.
Tag: virtual reality
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.
Cap Times Q&A: Kevin Ponto Wants to Use Virtual Reality to Solve Real-world Problems
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.
Melissa Schoenlein
Role of perceptual features (e.g. color) in cognitive processing and information visualization
Juliana Reams
Using virtual reality to understand the way patients handle their home care in their environment.
Katherine Ceballos
Design and implement new and existing files, websites, and programs.
Alec Archambault
Preparing the hololens for presentations and diving deeper into learning about the technology
Thaddeus Gue
Research Assistant
Observing how the built environment influences health outcomes.
Peter Ullrich
Analysis of various virtual reality techniques to further improve their technologies.
Catalysts for Science Policy Group Finds New Home at WID, Focuses on Forensic Science Policy
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.
Arthur Malulley Bovolim de Oliveira
VR educational application in the form of an arcade game to teach kids a bit about polar research
Virtual Environments Group
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.
Schloss Visual Perception and Cognition Lab
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.
Ponto Lab
Develop techniques to better the experience of virtual reality through new devices, interfaces, and techniques.
Gail Casper
Senior Scientist
Use visualization to explore technologies to support management of health and illness in the home.
LEL Videos
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.
Karen Schloss
Assistant Professor
Visual perception and cognition in information visualization and virtual reality.