Collaborative teleimmersion involves multiple users connecting
to a single virutal environment. The term virtual reality
can be a misnomer because projects do not attempt to recreate
reality. Instead, the focus is upon creating an environment in
which a user may immerse himself and interact cooperatively with
other users.
Projects | Research
Interests | Publications | Conferences,
Workshops, etc.
Although most of my research has been done exclusively on high-end
workstations, I have gathered a
few notes about Macintosh
VR development.
Research Interests
- Collaborative 3D User Interaction
- The investigation of the three-dimensional user interfaces
in an increasingly active area, but the consideration of multiple
users extends the scope of investigation.
- Immersive Modeling
- Creating objects and surfaces on a 2D monitor is easier
with programs tailored for that kind of interaction. The selection
of tools is not available within immersive environments like
the CAVE.
- Haptic Interfaces
- Virtual environments do a good job of fooling the sense
of sight. Some facilities have provided excellent audio capabilities
as well. However, the sense of touch is one which requires
still more work to be done for use in virutal environments.
- Real-time Graphics
- There are a lot of amazing effects which can be achieved
with computer graphics. However, presenting those effects
for use in an interactive real-time environment requires alternative
approaches.
Projects
- Designing Cranial Implants with Augmented Reality
and Haptics
- (Thesis in development.)
- coinevents Library
- This library implements 3D user interaction events for
use with Coin3D.
- Improved QUANTA Avatars
- The avatar classes used by CAVERNsoft and QUANTA are nto
very much to my liking. I wanted something that better utilized
features of object-oriented design while avoiding messy things
like templates.
- VTK and Inventor Integration
- VTK is tremendously useful with an amazing feature set.
It can export to an Inventor file, but I needed to have a
tighter integration. I created some classes to import Inventor
geometry to the VTK pipeline while and export a VTK actor's
representing to the Inventor scene graph.
- WallView (now
known as ImmersaView)
- Inventor-based model and animation viewer for the AGAVE
system. Capabilities are based on the current Performer version
of coanim. Runs using Coin3d on Linux and IRIX; soon to be
available for Windows and MacOS X.
- ASCI Collaborative MEMS
- In cooperation with Sandia National Laboratory, CAVERNsoft
has been utilized to create a collaborative Micro-Electric
Machine Simulation. Kinematic and dynamic output from SD/Fast
is placed into a CAVERN database and read for teleimmersive
visualization.
- their name.
- Tele-Immersive
Data Exploration environment (TIDE)
- Results from today's computational simulations can result
in significantly large data stores approaching several terabytes.
TIDE is a framework attempting to facilitate the development
of multi-user collaborative interactive virtual environments
for the visualization of large data sets.
- CAVERNsoft
G2 Development
- IRIS Performer uses dynamic coordinate systems for maintaining
transformation information. Typically, the transformation
matrix must be repeatedly transferred over the network to
share it with collaborators. This class uses CAVERNsoft G2
to create a DCS node which will automatically share its transformation
information with other teleimmersed users.
- Virtual Temporal Bone in Performer
- Based upon an existing base framework, the Virtual Temporal
Bone in Performer is a multi-user immersive environment with
the funcitonality for switching between a selection of organic
structures of the human inner ear. Networked users share the
same collaborative view, and each user is represented by a
colored pointer.
- Input Module
- An object-oriented library for handling interaction from
the CAVE, my InputModule creates an event-triggered process
for handling interaction from connected input devices. Button
presses trigger event actions in other parts of programs,
enabling for a cleaner interaction design.
Publications
Patton, J., Dawe, G., Scharver, C., and Kenyon, R.. The development
of a life-sized 3-d system for the rehabilitation of motor
function. In Proceedings of 26th Annual International Conference
of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sep
5 2004. [link forthcoming]
Scharver, C., Evenhouse, R., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Designing
Cranial Implants in a Haptic Augment Reality Environment,
Communications of the ACM, volume 27, Number 8, ACM Press,
New York, New York,
August 2004, pp. 32-38. [link]
Scharver, C., Evenhouse, R., Johnson, A., Leigh, J., Pre-surgical
Cranial Implant Design using the PARIS Prototype, Proceedings
of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality, Chicago, IL, March
22-24, 2004. [PDF][plate]
Park, K., Cho, Y., Krishnaprasad, N., Scharver, C., Lewis,
M., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., CAVERNsoft G2: A Toolkit for High
Performance Tele-Immersive Collaboration, Proceedings of the
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2000,
Seoul, Korea, Oct 22-25, 2000, pp. 8-15. [PDF]
Sawant, N., Scharver, C., Leigh, J., Johnson, A., Reinhart,
G., Creel, E., Batchu, S., Bailey, S., Grossman, R., The Tele-Immersive
Data Explorer: A Distributed Architecture for Collaborative
Interactive Visualization of Large Data-sets, 4th International
Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Ames, IA, June 19-20,
2000. [PDF]
Park, K., Kapoor, A., Scharver, C., Leigh, J., Exploiting
Multiple Perspectives in Tele-Immersion, Proceedings of the
Fourth Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Ames, IA,
June 19-20, 2000. [PDF]
Conferences and Workshops
- Machines Assisting Recovery from Stroke Advisory
Board Meeting, Chicago, IL Sep 14, 2004
- Demonstrated rehabiloitation applications on RIC's PARIS.
- IEEE VR 2004, Chicago, IL Mar 29-31,
2004
- Presented paper, "Pre-Surgical
Cranial Implant Design Using the PARIS™ Prototype," (color
plate) and demonstrated the work at EVL's Demo Night.
- Radiological Society of North America 2003, Chicago,
IL Dec 1-5, 2003
- Demonstrated PARIS using the cranial implant application
along iwth enhancements for viewing computed tomography (CT)
images within the environment.
- Programming the PARIS, Chicago, IL, Sep 11, 2003
- Presentation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago detailed
the methods used for integrating haptics with the PARIS.
- Medicine Meets VR 2003, Newport Beach, CA, Jan 22-24,
2003
- Demonstrated haptic cranial implant modeling work on PARIS.
- Supercomputing 2002, Baltimore, MD, Nov 2002
- Demonstrated haptic cranial implant modeling work work
on PARIS.
- American Geophysists Union 2001, San Francisco,
CA, Dec 10-14, 2001
- Demonstrated WallView in the Iris booth.
- Supercomputing 2000, Dallas, TX, Nov 2000
- Presented demonstrations of EVL research projects in NCSA
and ASCI booths. TIDE earthquake visualizations were run between
Dallas, Chicago, and Tel Aviv, Israel. MEMS visualizations
were demonstrated at the Department of Energy booth
- INET 2000, Yokohama, Japan, Aug 2000
- As a part of IGrid at the Internet 2000 conference, worked
with collaborators in Japan, Amsterdam, and Chicago to demonstrate
a variety of virtual environment applications. TIDE was demonstrated
between a IDesk in Japan and the CAVEs in Chicago.
- EGVE 2000, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jun 1-2, 2000
- EuroGraphics Workshop on Virtual Environments. Directed
a collaborative session of TIDE
between the SARA CAVE in Amsterdam and the EVL CAVE in Chicago.
Digital audioconferencing was enabled to take advantage of
the special STARTAP connection between the two sites.
- CAVELib™ Networking, SGI Reality Center, Orlando,
FL, Mar 14-16, 2000
- Presented a day-long workshop tutorial on the use of CAVERNsoft
for implementing tele-immersive applications.
- IPT 2000, Ames, IA, Jun 19-20, 2000
- Immersive Projection Technologies. Presented a paper on
TIDE, The
Tele-Immersive Data Explorer: A Distributed Architecture for
the Collaborative Interactive Visualization of Large Data-Sets
(PDF format).
- LDV 1999, Salt Lake City, UT
- NSF/DOE Workshop on Large Data Visualization and Management
- Supercomputing 1999, Portland, OR, Nov 14-19, 1999
- Collaborative demonstrations of TIDE
in ASCI, Access Grid, and Argonne booths.
- Supercomputing 1998, Orlando, FL
- Prepared the demonstration for Supercomputing '98 of LIMBO
tools, specifically the FutureCamp98
Project at Indiana University and the Awareness
Collaborative Tools at Virginia Tech
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