Graphics & User Interfaces

Method reduces VR sickness by subtly altering user’s field of view in response to “motion”

The research, done by Steven K. Feiner and Ajoy Fernandes, has application for consumer head-worn VR displays.

Exploring the acoustic nature of objects

In a step toward controlling vibrations, researchers have created an algorithm that automatically optimizes the shape of 2D and 3D objects to control the frequencies and amplitudes of the sounds generated when those objects vibrate.

Paper coauthored by Changxi Zheng is Best Paper at Symposium on Computer Animation

Deployable 3D Linkages with Collision Avoidance describes a method for creating Hoberman-like mechanisms out of arbitrary 3D models. The method, which requires little user input, automatically avoids collisions among parts so object can expand and contract.

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Graphics and user interface research includes animation, geometry processing, computational photography, augmented reality & virtual environments, rendering, human-computer interaction, acquisition of geometry and material properties, 3D user interfaces, computational mechanics, knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, mobile and wearable computing, computer games, information visualization, video and image processing, shape modeling.