Krishna Bhradwaj’s MS Thesis Defense Committee: Andrew Johnson, Luc Renambot, Liz Marai Abstract: The amount of data that we deal with, on a daily basis, is ever increasing and coupled with the fact that display technology is getting cheaper…
Read morePrinceton Review’s Top 25 Graduate Schools to Study Game Design for 2016 On March 15, 2016, the Princeton Review released its seventh annual ranking lists naming the best undergraduate and graduate schools for students to study - and launch a…
Read moreThis year, UIC Computer Science (CS) PhD student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistant Victor Mateevitsi received 1st Place for his “SpiderSense” image in the campus’s 2016 Image of Research competition…
Read moreWallcology, an extension of the ’Embedded Phenomena’ learning technology framework, can be described as a computer simulation designed to support middle school curricular goals in life science and population ecology. By situating…
Read moreIn this application, participants view several 2-dimensional high-resolution images captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover in EVL’s CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. Using EVL’s SAGE™ (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment)…
Read moreEVL PhD Candidate, Michael J. Lewis defends his thesis “A Distributed Graph Approach for Retrieving Linked RDF Data Using Supercomputing systems”: UIC / EVL 842 W. Taylor Street, Room 2068 (EVL Cybercommons) Chicago, IL 60607…
Read moreThe University of Illinois System’s YouTube channel posted the video “Altogether Extraordinary” to promote its “one system, three universities, endless possibilities” in November 2017, as part of the University’s…
Read moreSeptember 14, 2017 - This year, UIC Computer Science (CS) PhD student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistant Arthur Nishimoto received Honorable Mention for his “Under the Virtual Ice” image in the…
Read moreHearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project is a 3D narrative experience made for the effective sensory environment of the EVL’s CAVE2™ that gives voice to stories of violence and the post-traumatic stress experienced by ordinary…
Read moreFor those attending SC17 in Denver, Colorado, we will hold the “SAGE2 9th Annual International SC BOF: Scalable Amplified Group Environment for Global Collaboration” Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting: * Thursday, November 16 * 12:15PM…
Read moreUIC Computer Science and EVL exchange student from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, Marco Cavallo presents his thesis research on Mixed Reality. “Merging Worlds: A Location-based Approach to Mixed Reality” presents a novel approach to…
Read moreJD Pirtle, a UIC alumnus with an MFA in Electronic Visualization from the College of Architecture and the Arts (now renamed College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts), was a student and staff member at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory…
Read moreWEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017 - The President of the University of Illinois System, Timothy Killeen, this week led a delegation of ~18 University officials on a two-day visit to one of its campuses, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). On the…
Read moreThe SAGE2 team is demo’ing SAGE2 during the SC17 research exhibition, booth #1653 (Center for Data Intensive Science/Open Commons Consortium Booth). For those attending SC17, come see firsthand SAGE2 v3’s many new and advanced features…
Read moreMay 15, 2017 - Though students graduate, faculty retires, and staff moves on to new jobs, we have an expression that “No one ever leaves EVL.” That’s because during its 44 year history, the faculty, staff and students of the UIC…
Read moreThis application uses EVL’s SAGE™ software to display both 2D and 3D data in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. In a collaborative session, participants can compare and contrast a variety of digital media sources towards better…
Read moreParticipants in the CAVE2™ System stand inside a balls-and-sticks model of a molecular chemistry dataset. The clouds represent the density of electrons around atoms. Chemistry models and simulation data are provided by Aslihan Sumer, Juliuis…
Read moreCaterpillar Inc. is working with the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to develop a SAGE2™ application to enable distributed teams to collaborate on project planning and scheduling. Planning and scheduling the design, development…
Read moreExploring big cities like Chicago can be a daunting experience when the tourist has to gather information from multiple sources regarding places, directions, transportation, safety, and weather. We propose a large display solution (kiosks) which…
Read moreFleet Commander is an interactive game developed to explore how a real-time strategy game that often relies on complex keyboard commands and mouse interactions can be transferred into a multi-user, multi-touch environment. This game attempts to…
Read moreParticipants can explore the self-assembly of a ligated gold nanoparticle and proteins inside an ionic solution in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. Data and visualization provided by the Petr Kral Research Group at the Department of…
Read moreThis project’s purpose was to investigate the ability of virtual reality to teach music. An application was developed for the CAVE2™ and Microsoft Hololens, and their ability to teach music effectively was analyzed. Both the applications…
Read moreUIC Computer Science mentors two DREU undergraduates to work on summer research project JULY 27, 2017 - Undergraduate students Taylor Day, from Texas A&M University, College Station, and Mariko Kamiya, from Swarthmore University, were selected to be…
Read moreData &Time: Friday, May 4th, 2018, 11 am - 1pm Location: Room 3036 ERF Defense committee: Angus G. Forbes (Chair and Advisor) Andrew Johnson G. Elisabeta Marai Abstract: Simulating real-life light in a virtual world is computationally very expensive…
Read moreOn-line, real-time audio dilation is a technique that time stretches, or slows down the tempo of audio signals as they are generated. This research focuses upon the control over incoming live audio tempo for increased intelligibility and comfort…
Read moreJUNE 13, 2017 - Ryan Wolff and David Wolff, producers of the documentary web series “The Good Stuff,” recently completed a program on virtual-reality headsets, but “as awesome as the experience was,” says Ryan, “it’s…
Read moreIn an homage to “StarTrek,” EVL graduate student Arthur Nishimoto spent his spare time over the past two years creating a 3D virtual replica of the starship Enterprise. Participants can wander through various rooms inside the ship, and…
Read moreCAVE2™, the next-generation large-scale virtual-reality environment, is a hybrid system that combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution display walls and virtual-reality systems to create a seamless 2D / 3D environment that supports…
Read moreParticipants fly through a close-up of a glass fissure computed in a 5-Million atom molecular dynamics nanoscale simulation. Visualization by Aaron Knoll and Michael Papka of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) at Argonne National…
Read moreDespite much progress and increased interest, mixed reality applications are not yet in widespread use by the general public. Our framework, DigitalQuest, facilitates the creation of mixed reality applications, providing application designers with…
Read moreArthur Nishimoto, a PhD student in the UIC Computer Science Department and a Research Assistant at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is a recipient of the 2016 UIC Chancellor’s Student Service Award. He will be honored, along…
Read moreWednesday, March 9, 2016, 1:00 PM EVL Cyber-Commons, Room 2068 ERF MS candidate and Italian exchange student, Andrea Purgato presents his research into methods for the GPU-based computation to define the structure of a dynamic social or biological…
Read moreNewcity magazine is Chicago’s only locally owned and operated cultural weekly, and has been covering Chicago’s local scene for more than 25 years. It’s current “Best of Chicago” issue just came out (Volume 31, No…
Read moreEDITOR’S NOTE: The March 27, 2017 edition of Crain’s Chicago Business has a front page article featuring Dr. Pete Nelson, Dean of the UIC College of Engineering (COE). His portrait, which takes up more than half the page, was…
Read moreIn January 2016, Siying Li, a graduate student at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University covering technology innovations for arts, contacted the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to do a story. More specifically, he…
Read moreSAGEBoard is an electronic whiteboard for tiled touch displays that can be used locally or shared between remote collaborators. An electronic whiteboard can combine the advantages of an electronic device with the fast paced interaction provided by a…
Read moreAlessandro Febretti presents his PhD research in developing a model of an operating system for Hybrid Reality Environments, called Omegalib. Friday, March 3, 2017, 2pm EVL Cybercommons - 2068 ERF Committee: Andrew E. Johnson (Chair), Robert B…
Read moreThursday, June 9, 2016 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Woman Made Gallery 685 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL UIC Computer Science Ph.D. candidate and EVL graduate research assistant, Jillian Aurisano describes her work with bacterial genomics researchers to…
Read morePatients come to Centers for Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation from all over the globe, “often with catastrophic or unusual conditions and always with great hope for an improved life ahead”. In the quest to assist these patients…
Read moreOctober 2016 - Augmented reality (AR) is being used in a very novel and compelling way to engage Chicago residents and tourists into learning more about the city’s history. John Russick of the Chicago History Museum teamed with Geoffrey Alan…
Read moreWednesday, April 6, 2016, 1:00 PM EVL Cyber-Commons (Room 2068 ERF) EVL research assistant and Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD student, Haoyu Wang presents his research contribution to the National Science Foundation sponsored “Sensor…
Read moreThis research explores a novel approach to the design of Mixed Reality (MR) applications, which combines elements from markerless and location-based Augmented Reality in order to explore new types of interaction, leveraging a spatial representation…
Read moreWhile most academic conferences attract people who want to learn, the annual IEEE Visualization (VIS) conference attracts people who want to be challenged. Throughout the year, the conference sponsors several contests - to encourage the best…
Read moreOCTOBER 26, 2017 - Maxine Brown, director of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), participated in The Higher Education Campus Alliance for Advanced Visualization (THE CAAV) 2nd annual conference, held on the campus of University of…
Read moreAs a demonstration of cultural heritage, participants can view 360-degree panoramic images of Medinet Habu, the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III located on the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt, in the CAVE2™ System. The 360-degree photographic…
Read moreWe present the design and implementation of a visual mining and analysis tool to help identify protein mutations across family structural models, and to help discover the effect of these mutations on protein function. We follow a client-server…
Read moreCommittee: Andrew Johnson (Chair and Advisor), Steve Jones, Robert Kenyon, Jason Leigh (University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa), Luc Renambot December 18, 2017, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Room 1000 SEO Abstract: An estimated 253 million people in the world are…
Read moreEVL summer intern, Shreyas Mohan from Metea Valley High School, Aurora, IL presents the results of his efforts towards developing a robust music instruction application for use in virtual and augmented reality environments - the CAVE2 and Microsoft…
Read moreThe SC16 SAGE2™ BOF presentation is now posted online. * * * * * * * * * * SAGE2™: Scalable Amplified Group Environment for Global Collaboration Birds of a Feather (BOF) Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 12:15PM–01:15PM Salt Palace Convention…
Read moreDate & Time: May 8th, 2018, 10am Location: 1000 SEO Defense committee: Andrew Johnson, Chair and Advisor G. Elisabeta Marai Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano Abstract: The video game industry is growing year after year, but one of the…
Read moreJUNE 6, 2018 - Maxine Brown, Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) in the department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is a “Perennial” - the name given to individuals who have had…
Read moreThe collaborative 3D virtual reality experience “Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” was exhibited during 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2016) at the Jeffrey Shaw 360 degree theater in Hong Kong…
Read moreThe Chicago 0,0 Riverwal AR experience provides a novel, interactive way for users to explore historical photographs sourced from museum archives. As users walk along the Chicago River, they are instructed to use their smartphone or tablet to view…
Read moreVictor Mateevitsi, a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) PhD student in the Computer Science (CS) Department and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), applied to Microsoft Research for a 2015 summer internship to work on virtual and…
Read moreGlobal-scale cyberinfrastructure, whether sensor nets or supercomputers, is transforming the way teams of scientists and engineers study and understand complex systems - whether physical, geological, biological, environmental, or atmospheric - from…
Read moreGoogle Street View can be considered as an online browsable dataset consisting of billions of street-level panoramic images acquired all around the world. Since 2007, the company has continuously improved and updated its global image database, now…
Read moreToday’s UIC Open House welcomed prospective students, their parents, and the general public to tour the campus and learn more about the many academic programs offered. As part of the day&rdsquo;s events, the Computer Science department…
Read moreFunded by NASA, the SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems) is to deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) whose sensors collect biogeochemical data of the water’s composition (salinity, pressure…
Read moreIn recognition of his work to develop next generation networks, advance the mission of Calit2 and shape collaborations across organizations, CENIC recognizes Tom DeFanti, an internationally recognized pioneer in visualization and virtual reality…
Read moreThe CAVE2™ System is a hybrid environment that enables users to mash-up a number of 2D and 3D images at the same time using SAGE™ software (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) developed by EVL. Users can display related digital media…
Read moreJune 22, 2016 Old Crow Smokehouse 149 W Kinzie Street, Chicago, IL Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), Luc Renambot presents his research in interactive techniques and collaboration…
Read moreDeveloped by EVL PhD Candidate Arthur Nishimoto the CAVE2/Unity simulator is a Unity3D package for testing and development of Unity3D applications for the CAVE2™ Hybrid-Reality Environment. Using only standard Unity features (no…
Read moreA connectome is a map of neural connections in the brain. In this CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment application, participants walk inside streamlines depicting the white matter fiber tracts in the brain, derived from diffusion tensor images…
Read moreEVL PhD candidate Michael Lewis presents his preliminary research on large scale query systems, and query complexity with regards to query pre-processing and memory usage within a tightly coupled high performance computing environment and within a…
Read moreMS candidate and Italian exchange student, Marco Cavallo presents his research in Augmented Reality (AR). His presentation will introduce a user-centered AR approach for publishing 2D media archives as AR content. Relevant technical considerations…
Read morePhD candidate Paul Murray presents his research in biological data visualization techniques. The Pathway Commons web service brings together several large biological databases, with tens of thousands of biological entities and interactions that can…
Read moreContent and application programming: Dan Sandin Content and systems programming: Robert Kooima Music and sound effects: Laurie Spiegel Driver: Tom DeFanti The virtual-reality installation “Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics” is the…
Read moreIndividuals standing in the CAVE2™ System interactively fly through Earth’s galaxy to observe constellations from different viewpoints. Data is from the European Space Agency’s Tycho-2 catalog, which contains the positions and…
Read moreTo celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - back when it was named University of Illinois Chicago Circle (UICC) — the UIC Alumni magazine’s Spring 2015 issue has a wonderfully nostalgic article titled…
Read more“SwordPlots: Exploring Neuron Behavior within Dynamic Communities of Brain Networks,” authored by Ma, C., Forbes, A. G., Llano, D. A., Berger-Wolf, T., Kenyon, R. V. was recognized by the Society for Imaging Sciences and Technology as…
Read moreThe growing onslaught of astronomical data available presents a great challenge. Astronomy lacks an easy-to-use and scalable way to collect and distribute expert information about objects from datasets of tens of thousands to billions of individual…
Read moreSpiderSense is a wearable device that projects the wearer’s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around him. The millions of sensory receptors that cover the skin presents opportunities for conveying…
Read moreAUGUST 9, 2016 - Jacqueline Tapia, a student in the Computer Science (CS) department and a summer intern at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), was one of four female undergraduates to be…
Read moreSEPTEMBER 11, 2017 - UIC Computer Science (CS) Associate Professor G. Elisabeta (Liz) Marai loves to inspire and educate next-generation computer scientists. For several years now, she has selected the best and brightest undergraduates from her Fall…
Read moreOmegaDesk provides researchers with a powerful, easy-to-use, information-rich, cyberinfrastructure instrument in support of scientific discovery. The OmegaDesk unifies ultra-high-resolution computer-enhanced collaboration workspaces and stereoscopic…
Read moreMAY 24, 2018 - The 1980s and beyond were a pivotal time for the digital arts media in the Midwest, and many of the women who went to school or worked in the Midwest are now chronicled in the new book “New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in…
Read moreCapitalizing on Star Trek’s 50th anniversary, which debuted on September 8, 1966, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed a social media #holodeck campaign to promote its support of cutting-edge research in virtual reality and…
Read moreProfessor Peter Doran of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) employs virtual-reality to further biological research in terrestrial environments analogous to those found on other planets, and to…
Read moreThe Chicago Tribune’s Blue Sky Innovation section today featured Victor Mateevitsi, a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Computer Science PhD candidate, and his work on SpiderSense. Here are excerpts from the article “Can a…
Read moreOn June 11, 2016, at the annual Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference at University of Victoria in Canada, “Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” won the ELO’s 2016 Robert Coover Award for the best work of…
Read moreProfessors J. Aerts (Leuven University, Belgium), N. Gehlenborg (Harvard), G.E. Marai (UIC), and K. Nieselt (University of Tuebingen, Germany) organized a week-long international meeting on “Biological Data Visualization: Crossroads” at…
Read moreHacking for wildlife: students use technology to save the animals The challenge was inspired by public backlash over the hunting of Cecil the Lion in July, when hashtags like #justiceforcecil, #savethelions and #bantrophyhunting began viral trends…
Read moreTo show medical illustrators and educators the value of virtual reality for medical training, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago mocked up a 3D skeleton, complete with body organs, including the…
Read moreTEDxUofIChicago 2016: Rethinking the System Victor Mateevitsi, a PhD candidate in the UIC Computer Science Department and Electronic Visualization Laboratoary (EVL), will talk about his SpiderSense human augmentics research at TEDxUofIChicago on…
Read moreParticipants stand inside virtual train tracks in the CAVE2™ System to observe distortion as high-speed trains roar past. This visualization of fundamental dynamics phenomena related to high-speed rail operations was done in collaboration with…
Read more SAGE™ software enables teams of users to manage their data in a room covered with displays, as if the room were one seamless canvas. SAGE lets users post and manipulate information, visualizations and animations. The goal of SAGE is to make…
Read moreJust as NSF cyberinfrastructure produces greater volumes and varieties of data from data storage systems, online instrumentation and major computational resources like XSEDE and Blue Waters, advanced visualization instruments serve as the…
Read moreMonday, May 2, 2016, 9:30 AM Room 1000, Science & Engineering Office Building, UIC UIC Computer Science and EVL exchange student from the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, Andrea Purgato presents his thesis research that explores the optimization of…
Read moreSENSEI will be a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution, spherical (4π steradian), photometric, radiometric and photogrammetric real-time data-acquisition, sensor-based, camera system capable of capturing 3D stereo and still images for viewing in…
Read moreTo announce OpenGrid, a new and innovative website enabling the public to navigate City data using an intuitive and visual interface, the City of Chicago’s Department of Innovation & Technology wanted a high-tech stage. Several stages, in…
Read moreMay 25, 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the theatrical release of the first “Star Wars” movie. To celebrate the occasion, and to highlight Chicago’s unique connection to the film, the Chicago Tribune published an in-depth and…
Read moreBactoGeNIE, the Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment, is a genome visualization approach developed at Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to address growing volumes of genome sequence data, specifically microbial genomes, in…
Read moreCHICAGO - VGA announces its ”Chicago New Media 1973-1992“ exhibition, public program and catalogue, in partnership with Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago November 1-December 15, 2018. This expansive project chronicles…
Read moreEVL PhD candidate Arthur Nishimoto has developed a virtual reality representation of the proposed new College of Engineering (COE) building for display in the CAVE2. Participants can navigate through and explore the virtual COE building and…
Read moreFriday, March 18, 2016 9:30am - 4:30pm SAIC Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago “Celebrating Women in New Media Arts,” a one-day symposium at the School of the Art Institute (SAIC), examines the achievements of women in the field of…
Read moreThe SC17 SAGE2™ BOF presentation material is now posted online. * * * * * * * * * * * SAGE2 @ SC17: Demonstrations, Birds of a Feather, and SCinet Participation NOVEMBER 12-16, 2017 - Members of the SAGE2™ Team who attended the IEEE/ACM…
Read moreParticipants walk through an architectural model of University of California, San Diego’s recently dedicated Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) building in the CAVE2™ System. The Graphics, Visualization and Virtual Reality…
Read moreby Maxine D. Brown February 3, 2016 - Victor Mateevitsi, a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and a recipient of the 2015 Dean’s Scholar Award, was a featured future entrepreneur on…
Read moreThe Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is led by assistant professor Debaleena Chattopadhyay of the Department of Computer Science. The HCI Lab designs computer technologies to transform human…
Read moreAbleton Live is music software designed for computer-based composition and performance. Ambisonics is a full-sphere surround sound technique used for playing audio on sound systems with more than two speakers, providing the illusion that sound is…
Read moreSENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument is a National Science Foundation award to construct a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution, spherical (4π steradian), photometric, radiometric and photogrammetric real-time data-acquisition…
Read moreThe International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Discovery is a CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment simulation where participants can explore the Space Station in full scale, orbiting the Earth at the current location and altitude of the…
Read moreJune 29, 2016, 1 PM EVL Cyber-Commons, Room 2068 ERF EVL PhD candidate Jillian Aurisano and research experience undergraduate (REU) James Hwang present their progress on SENSEI-Panama, an 3-dimensional virtual reality application designed for the…
Read moreSeptember 2016 - Since graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1992, Lewis Siegel, a Computer Science (CS) Master of Science student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) Research Assistant, has amassed an impressive…
Read moreParticipants interactively fly around a 3D representation of Mars in the CAVE2™ System. The 3D model was originally created by EVL graduate Robert Kooima using planetary data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Viking missions and star…
Read moreThe visualization of aleatoric uncertainty in ensemble simulations - i.e. the study of high concentrations in mixtures - provides many challenges due to the size and dimensionality of the data sets. EVL researchers have developed a web-based…
Read moreIn this application, participants view a number of 2D high-resolution images captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover, along side a 3-dimensional model of Mars in the CAVE2™. EVL’s SAGE™ (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment)…
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