Current Projects
SAGE
SAGE is a graphics streaming architecture for supporting collaborative scientific visualization environments with potentially hundreds of megapixels of contiguous display resolution. This allows us to stream, display, and interact with multiple visualization windows on our 100 megapixel LambdaVision display for collaborative visualization work.
Articulate
Articulate is a semi-automated visual analytic system that is guided by a conversational user interface to allow users to verbally describe and then manipulate what they want to see.
HANDS
This project is a collaboration between the College of Nursing and the College of Engineering at UIC to improve the HANDS framework for hand-offs between nurses.
Databasing Emerging High Power Directed Energy Technologies
This project applies a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of medical devices and laboratory equipment that utilize directed energy.
LED MedPen
UIC has received funding to develop a prototype handheld, self-contained laser cautery tool.
ENDURANCE
ENDURANCE is an autonomous under water vehicle capable of generating for the first time, 3-dimensional bio and geochemical datasets in the extreme environment of a perennially ice-covered Antarctic dry valley lake. At EVL we are providing visualization support to help plan and execute the missions, as well as interactively visualize the resulting data.
LifeLike
LifeLike investigates, develops and evaluates lifelike, natural computer interfaces that support realistic spoken dialog and non-verbal cues.
TacTile
TacTile is a 1080p resolution multi-touch LCD display table designed for the visual exporation of scientific datasets. With its HD resolution, it is suitable for both scientific applications as well as museum and informal education applications. By allowing up to 100 simultaneous touches this table format display encourages group interaction.
Rain Table
Rain Table is an interactive museum exhibit developed by EVL, the University of Minnesota, and the Science Museum of Minnesota. It allows museum visitors to generate rainfall on top of maps on a large high-resolution digital table and then watch as the rain flows down mountains and across fields, cuts channels through slopes and plains, and floods streams and rivers.
Cyber Commons
A Cyber-Commons is a technology-enhanced meeting room on a university campus that supports local and distance collaboration and promotes group-oriented problem solving. It is a next-generation computer science resource that relies upon advanced networking and multiple high-definition (HD) displays to transform the traditional computer lab/classroom filled with terminals into a work environment that facilitates and encourages group collaboration.
Adler Planetarium's Space Visualization Lab
EVL has been working with the Adler Planetarium for several years to deploy EVL's advanced visualization display technologies and applications into a museum setting. This includes a projection-based 3D display system providing viewing of stereo photographs from the surface of Mars, and a tiled LCD display showing high resolution imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope.