Graphics & User Interfaces

The IEEE Virtual Reality Academy recognizes significant contributions and highlights the accomplishments of the leaders in the fast-growing virtual reality field.

Associate Professor Xia Zhou and her team developed Joey, a soft, lightweight sensing fabric necklace that can easily be worn by mothers to monitor their Kangaroo Mother Care practices with their babies.

The paper “I Want to Figure Things Out”: Supporting Exploration in Navigation for People with Visual Impairments" and three other papers from the Graphics & User Interfaces group will be presented at the 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2023).
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Computation is fundamentally changing the way people see and interact with the world. Many parts of society have been transformed by graphics and user interfaces.
The group has played instrumental roles in developing groundbreaking graphics for Hollywood movies, life-saving augmented and virtual reality applications in the medical field, camera phone technology used by billions of people, 3D printing technologies for consumers and industry uses, and AI tools that aid the computational design process. Additionally, they have a strong commitment to enabling computers to be used by all people regardless of ability.
The classes involve hands-on learning and help students develop a portfolio of projects that demonstrate their unique abilities and interests.