WID Researchers Among Data Science Institute Mini Grant Recipients
Jon Eckhardt, Robert Nowak, and Kevin Ponto were among the recipients of nine mini grants from the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute to advance data science.
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.
Lauren Ciha
Assessing educational opportunities by exploring the relationship between perception and learning
What is the Emerging Tech Hub at WID?
Hyperinnovation profiles a recent networking event devoted to development of WID’s nascent Emerging Technologies Hub.
Kudirat Alimi
My work consists of completing a variety of administrative tasks that promote the VE Lab's projects.
Bryce Sprecher
Acquire, process, interpret, and display spatial data for education, insight, and experience.
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.
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
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.
Virtual Environments Group
The Virtual Environments Group 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 Reasoning 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.
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.
Ross Tredinnick
Systems Programmer
Immersive visualization, 3D environment scanning, virtual reality research and development