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SAGE2 @ SC18: Demonstrations, Birds of a Feather, and SCinet Participation
Doctoral Defense Announcement: “Supporting Navigation with a Torso…
RehabJim: A Third Person Approach To Virtual Reality Biomechanical…
UIC/EVL Receives Honorable Mention in IEEE VIS 2016’s VGTC VPG Data…
“Hearts and Minds” Exhibited at ISEA2016
SAGE2 Team Engaging with the Trusted CI Center on SAGE2 Cybersecurity
Ableton Live Integration & Audio Effects for a 32 Speaker Ambisonic Sound…
Andrea Purgato Thesis Presentation: “GPU Acceleration and…
SAGE2 9th Annual International SC BOF @ SC17
PhD Thesis Defense Announcement: “Knowledge Places: Embedding…
StarTrek Enterprise
Marco Cavallo Thesis Presentation “Merging Worlds: A Location-based…
Can a Spider-Man-inspired jacket help the blind get around Chicago?
Proposed UIC College of Engineering Building Rendition in the CAVE2&trade…
One Chicago grade school is transforming education with EVL technologies
VisSnippets: A Web-Based System for Impromptu Collaborative Data…
Tsoupikova’s “Transforming Storytelling: Multi-User Virtual…
TRNQWRLD
Music Instruction in a Virtual/Augmented Reality Environment (CAVE2&trade…
VGA Exhibition Tells Underrecognized Story Of New Media In Chicago
PhD Defense Announcement: “Multiview Immersion in Hybrid Reality…
Preliminary Examination Announcement: “Collaborative Augmented…
Chicago Design Milestones 1920–2019 Installation Opens July 1, 2019
EVL PhD Candidate Ashwini Naik Presents ‘V-NeuroStack’ at…
Prof. Marai co-organizes Dagstuhl meeting on visualization of biological…
New, Advanced SAGE2 Features Being Demonstrated at SC17
Dana Plepys receiving UIC CAPE Award at 2019 UIC Employee Recognition…
Riverwalk: Incorporating Historical Photography in Public Outdoor…
Merging Worlds: A Location-based Approach to Mixed Reality
ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC…
MS Thesis Defense: “ETNA: a Virtual Reality Game with Affective…
SAGE2 @ SC19: Demonstrations, Birds of a Feather, and SCinet Participation
OmegaDesk: An Instrument for Interactive Visual Data Exploration and…
Connectome
Cancer Disparities in Chicago
Architectural Design of a UCSD Engineering Building
Tom DeFanti, EVL Director Emeritus Awarded CENIC’s 2017 Innovations…
3D City Reconstruction From Google Street View
SC17 SAGE2 BOF materials now posted online
SAGE2 Project Management Application
Exploring BioPax and the Pathway Commons API Using Linked Views
Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics
Constellations
Electron Density of a Molecular Dataset
SENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument
International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Discovery
UIC CS/EVL Lance Long Receives UIC Award of Merit
BactoGeNIE, the Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment
Perspectives from the SC Perennials
Virtual Reality for Medical Training
SAGE2™ Scalable Amplified Group Environment
UIC EVL/MFA Graduate JD Pirtle Starts Depth and Light Consultancy Firm
High-Speed Trains
Astroshelf: Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe
City of Chicago Partners with UIC/EVL to Announce OpenGrid
SENSEI-Panama: Visualizing Animal Movement Data on a Virtual Island in the…
DigitalQuest: A Mixed Reality Approach to Scavenger Hunts
UIC CS/EVL Undergrad Jacqueline Tapia Receives a UIC CS Scholars…
Crain’s newspaper features “How UIC is making room for a…
Interactive Exploration and Tracking of Viscous Fingers in Large-Scale…
Star Wars Death Star reborn in virtual reality at UIC
Luc Renambot presents SAGE2™ at “Node.js Live - Chicago”
Newcity magazine rates UIC/EVL as “Best place to get your geek…
Effective Use of Large Visualization Displays
U of I System’s “Altogether Extraordinary” Video…
MRI - Development of Continuum: A Virtualized Attentive Environment for…
EVL hosts CAVE2 demos as part of Computer Science’s activities for…
Daria Tsoupikova Recognized Among Leonardo's Outstanding Peer Reviewers
UIC/EVL Helps Kick Off NSF’s Holodeck Social Media Campaign
UIC alumnus Victor Mateevitsi’s SpiderSense jacket included in…
UIC/EVL Alumnus Lewis Siegel Amasses an Impressive Computer Graphics…
Art of Science: Comparative Genomics, Visualization and Big Displays
SC16 SAGE BOF Now Posted Online
SAGE2 11th Annual International SC BOF @ SC19 - Tuesday, November 19…
SpiderSense
UIC Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory
UIC CS/EVL Alumna Trina Roy Receives Engineering Alumni Outstanding…
Mars Curiosity (SAGE in CAVE2™)
UIC/EVL Victor Mateevitsi Pitches SpiderSense on Discovery Science’s…
FixingTIM: Interactive Exploration of Sequence and Structural Data to…
Mars Curiosity
Celebrating Women in New Media Arts
Victor Mateevitsi participating in TEDxUofIChicago, April 8, 2016
UIC CS/EVL PhD student Arthur Nishimoto receives 2016 UIC Chancellor's…
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Glass Fissure
Large Scale Query Analysis on HPC and Cloud Systems
Textual Annotation Tools for SAGE2
Riverwalk: Incorporating Historical Photographs in Public Outdoor…
Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project
UIC/EVL Receives Two Honorable Mentions in IEEE VIS 2017 VAST Challenge
“Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” Awarded Top…
Blueprints for 'Star Wars' Death Star were created at UIC
Virtual Reality Enhanced Physical Therapy
COMPaaS DLV: Composable Platform as a Service Instrument for Deep Learning…
Princeton Review rates UIC one of the top 25 graduate schools to study…
University of Illinois System 2017 PELP Program Visits the Electronic…
UIC/EVL Students Recognized in 2016 UIC Image of Research Competition
SENSEI-Panama
Wallcology: Technology based learning and scientific inquiry
MS Thesis Defense Announcement: “Exploring Deep Learning Techniques…
Hospital Architecture Study
THE CAAV 2017 Conference Featured Keynote on EVL’’s Visualization…
Exploring Chicago
PhD Thesis Defense Announcement: “Problem-Driven Design Strategies…
Audio Dilation
CAVE2: Next-Generation Virtual-Reality and Visualization Hybrid…
Augmented Reality App Offers New Look at Eastland Disaster
Introduction to Therapeutic Games with Unity 3D
Luxor
As UIC celebrates 50 years, alumni list top 50 events: Star Wars CGI is…
Mars
SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog…
John Novak’s Interspeech 2018 paper nominated for best student award
No One Ever Leaves EVL
SAGEBoard: a Whiteboard for Large Multitouch Displays
CAVE2/Unity Simulator
A Distributed Graph Approach for Retrieving Linked RDF Data Using…
EVL PhD Candidate Chihua Ma Receives Charles E. Ives Journal Award
UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory Graduates and Staff Participate in…
UIC’s “Team Italy” participates in Chicago Hackathon for…
Gold Nanoparticle
UIC/EVL Featured in new book: New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the…
ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC…
Music Instruction in a Virtual/Augmented Environment
UIC/EVL Student Recognized in 2017 UIC Image of Research Competition
Fleet Commander
360 X 180 panorama construction based on image stitching method
Virtual Reality Student Exposition at VGA
UIC Computer Science/EVL Marai Developing Computer Programs to Aid Cancer…
Network Computation with GPU
Understanding Accessibility of Smartphone Map Applications for Older Adults
Summer Internship Enables UIC/EVL Student to Work on Multi-Person Virtual…
Inside a Real Life Holodeck
UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory to be Featured in “Chicago…

SAGE2 @ SC18: Demonstrations, Birds of a Feather, and SCinet Participation

Doctoral Defense Announcement: “Supporting Navigation with a Torso Wearable Tactile Display”

RehabJim: A Third Person Approach To Virtual Reality Biomechanical Rehabilitation

UIC/EVL Receives Honorable Mention in IEEE VIS 2016’s VGTC VPG Data Visualization Contest

“Hearts and Minds” Exhibited at ISEA2016

SAGE2 Team Engaging with the Trusted CI Center on SAGE2 Cybersecurity

Ableton Live Integration & Audio Effects for a 32 Speaker Ambisonic Sound System

Andrea Purgato Thesis Presentation: “GPU Acceleration and Interactive Visualization for Spatio-Temporal Network“

SAGE2 9th Annual International SC BOF @ SC17

PhD Thesis Defense Announcement: “Knowledge Places: Embedding Knowledge in the Space of the Classroom”

StarTrek Enterprise

Marco Cavallo Thesis Presentation “Merging Worlds: A Location-based Approach to Mixed Reality”

Can a Spider-Man-inspired jacket help the blind get around Chicago?

Proposed UIC College of Engineering Building Rendition in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment

One Chicago grade school is transforming education with EVL technologies

VisSnippets: A Web-Based System for Impromptu Collaborative Data Exploration on Large Displays

Tsoupikova’s “Transforming Storytelling: Multi-User Virtual Reality Theater for Collaborative Tele-Immersive Exploration” Awarded

TRNQWRLD

Music Instruction in a Virtual/Augmented Reality Environment (CAVE2™ and HoloLens)

VGA Exhibition Tells Underrecognized Story Of New Media In Chicago

PhD Defense Announcement: “Multiview Immersion in Hybrid Reality Environments”

Preliminary Examination Announcement: “Collaborative Augmented Reality for Virtual Reality Display Wall Environments”

Chicago Design Milestones 1920–2019 Installation Opens July 1, 2019

EVL PhD Candidate Ashwini Naik Presents ‘V-NeuroStack’ at Neuroscience 2019

Prof. Marai co-organizes Dagstuhl meeting on visualization of biological data

New, Advanced SAGE2 Features Being Demonstrated at SC17

Dana Plepys receiving UIC CAPE Award at 2019 UIC Employee Recognition Award Ceremony and Reception

Riverwalk: Incorporating Historical Photography in Public Outdoor Augmented Reality Experiences

Merging Worlds: A Location-based Approach to Mixed Reality

ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer)

MS Thesis Defense: “ETNA: a Virtual Reality Game with Affective Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment based on Skin Conductance”

SAGE2 @ SC19: Demonstrations, Birds of a Feather, and SCinet Participation

OmegaDesk: An Instrument for Interactive Visual Data Exploration and Collaboration

Connectome

Cancer Disparities in Chicago

Architectural Design of a UCSD Engineering Building

Tom DeFanti, EVL Director Emeritus Awarded CENIC’s 2017 Innovations in Networking Award

3D City Reconstruction From Google Street View

SC17 SAGE2 BOF materials now posted online

SAGE2 Project Management Application

Exploring BioPax and the Pathway Commons API Using Linked Views

Particle Dreams in Spherical Harmonics

Constellations

Electron Density of a Molecular Dataset

SENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument

International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Discovery

UIC CS/EVL Lance Long Receives UIC Award of Merit

BactoGeNIE, the Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment

Perspectives from the SC Perennials

Virtual Reality for Medical Training

SAGE2™ Scalable Amplified Group Environment

UIC EVL/MFA Graduate JD Pirtle Starts Depth and Light Consultancy Firm

High-Speed Trains

Astroshelf: Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe

City of Chicago Partners with UIC/EVL to Announce OpenGrid

SENSEI-Panama: Visualizing Animal Movement Data on a Virtual Island in the CAVE2™

DigitalQuest: A Mixed Reality Approach to Scavenger Hunts

UIC CS/EVL Undergrad Jacqueline Tapia Receives a UIC CS Scholars Scholarship

Crain’s newspaper features “How UIC is making room for a computer science boom”

Interactive Exploration and Tracking of Viscous Fingers in Large-Scale Ensemble Simulations

Star Wars Death Star reborn in virtual reality at UIC

Luc Renambot presents SAGE2™ at “Node.js Live - Chicago”

Newcity magazine rates UIC/EVL as “Best place to get your geek on”

Effective Use of Large Visualization Displays

U of I System’s “Altogether Extraordinary” Video Highlights UIC and EVL

MRI - Development of Continuum: A Virtualized Attentive Environment for Amplified Collaboration

EVL hosts CAVE2 demos as part of Computer Science’s activities for UIC Open House

Daria Tsoupikova Recognized Among Leonardo's Outstanding Peer Reviewers

UIC/EVL Helps Kick Off NSF’s Holodeck Social Media Campaign

UIC alumnus Victor Mateevitsi’s SpiderSense jacket included in MSI’s Wired to Wear™ exhibition

UIC/EVL Alumnus Lewis Siegel Amasses an Impressive Computer Graphics Resume over Nearly 25 Year Career

Art of Science: Comparative Genomics, Visualization and Big Displays

SC16 SAGE BOF Now Posted Online

SAGE2 11th Annual International SC BOF @ SC19 - Tuesday, November 19, 12:15 - 1:15pm

SpiderSense

UIC Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Laboratory

UIC CS/EVL Alumna Trina Roy Receives Engineering Alumni Outstanding Achievement Award

Mars Curiosity (SAGE in CAVE2™)

UIC/EVL Victor Mateevitsi Pitches SpiderSense on Discovery Science’s “All-American Makers” TV Show

FixingTIM: Interactive Exploration of Sequence and Structural Data to Identify Functional Mutations in Protein Families

Mars Curiosity

Celebrating Women in New Media Arts

Victor Mateevitsi participating in TEDxUofIChicago, April 8, 2016

UIC CS/EVL PhD student Arthur Nishimoto receives 2016 UIC Chancellor's Student Service Award

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Glass Fissure

Large Scale Query Analysis on HPC and Cloud Systems

Textual Annotation Tools for SAGE2

Riverwalk: Incorporating Historical Photographs in Public Outdoor Augmented Reality Experiences

Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project

UIC/EVL Receives Two Honorable Mentions in IEEE VIS 2017 VAST Challenge

“Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project” Awarded Top Electronic Literature Prize

Blueprints for 'Star Wars' Death Star were created at UIC

Virtual Reality Enhanced Physical Therapy

COMPaaS DLV: Composable Platform as a Service Instrument for Deep Learning & Visualization

Princeton Review rates UIC one of the top 25 graduate schools to study game design

University of Illinois System 2017 PELP Program Visits the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)

UIC/EVL Students Recognized in 2016 UIC Image of Research Competition

SENSEI-Panama

Wallcology: Technology based learning and scientific inquiry

MS Thesis Defense Announcement: “Exploring Deep Learning Techniques for Real-time Graphics”

Hospital Architecture Study

THE CAAV 2017 Conference Featured Keynote on EVL’’s Visualization and Collaboration Technologies

Exploring Chicago

PhD Thesis Defense Announcement: “Problem-Driven Design Strategies for Scientific Data Visualization”

Audio Dilation

CAVE2: Next-Generation Virtual-Reality and Visualization Hybrid Environment for Immersive Simulation and Information Analysis

Augmented Reality App Offers New Look at Eastland Disaster

Introduction to Therapeutic Games with Unity 3D

Luxor

As UIC celebrates 50 years, alumni list top 50 events: Star Wars CGI is one of them

Mars

SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems)

John Novak’s Interspeech 2018 paper nominated for best student award

No One Ever Leaves EVL

SAGEBoard: a Whiteboard for Large Multitouch Displays

CAVE2/Unity Simulator

A Distributed Graph Approach for Retrieving Linked RDF Data Using Supercomputing systems

EVL PhD Candidate Chihua Ma Receives Charles E. Ives Journal Award

UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory Graduates and Staff Participate in Symposium “Herstory: Digital Innovations”

UIC’s “Team Italy” participates in Chicago Hackathon for Wildlife challenge

Gold Nanoparticle

UIC/EVL Featured in new book: New Media Futures: The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts

ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer) (SAGE™ Collaboration)

Music Instruction in a Virtual/Augmented Environment

UIC/EVL Student Recognized in 2017 UIC Image of Research Competition

Fleet Commander

360 X 180 panorama construction based on image stitching method

Virtual Reality Student Exposition at VGA

UIC Computer Science/EVL Marai Developing Computer Programs to Aid Cancer Patients

Network Computation with GPU

Understanding Accessibility of Smartphone Map Applications for Older Adults

Summer Internship Enables UIC/EVL Student to Work on Multi-Person Virtual Reality

Inside a Real Life Holodeck

UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory to be Featured in “Chicago New Media 1973-1992” Exhibition

NOVEMBER 11-16, 2018 - Members of the SAGE2™ Team who attended the IEEE/ACM SC18 conference - from University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa’s Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA), University of Illinois at Chicago’s… Read more
Committee: 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 more
Patients 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 more
While 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 more
The 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 more
The SAGE Development Team at the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently received… Read more
Ableton 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 more
Monday, 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 more
For 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 more
PhD Candidate: Anthony Perritano Date: Friday, September 6th, 2019 Time: 10:30 am CT Location: Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), Room 2068 ERF (Continuum) Committee: Tom Moher (Chair) Andrew Johnson Chris Kanich Joel Brown, Biology James… Read more
In 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 more
UIC 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 more
The 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 more
EVL 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 more
JD 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 more
In the past decades, science has become increasingly interdisciplinary and scientific discovery has experienced a paradigm shift from the classical scientific method to data-intensive scientific discovery. SAGE2 provides these interdisciplinary… Read more
JANUARY 24, 2019 - Daria Tsoupikova, associate professor in the UIC School of Design and an affiliated faculty member of the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) which is part of the Computer Science (CS) department, recently received a… Read more
Kyra Jones, School of Design undergraduate student created a virtual reality environment for the CAVE2 “TRNQWRLD” under the supervision of EVL faculty and Design Professor Daria Tsoupikova. Using Unity and the Unity simulator for the… Read more
EVL 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 more
CHICAGO - 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 more
Alessandro 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 more
Ph.D. Student Name: Arthur Nishimoto Committee: Prof. Andrew Johnson, Chair and Advisor Prof. Debaleena Chattopadhyay Prof. Steve Jones Prof. Wei Tang Prof. Jason Leigh (University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa) Date: 12/2/2019 Time: 11 am - 1 pm Location… Read more
School of Design associate professor, and EVL affiliated faculty member Daria Tsoupikova showcases her work as part of the Chicago Design Milestones 1920-2019 installation at the 150 Media Stream. The upcoming installation taking place throughout… Read more
EVL PhD candidate Ashwini Naik presents the results of collaborative research between the Computer Science and Molecular & Cellular Biology departments at the University of Illinois at Chicago and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Urbana… Read more
Professors 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 more
The 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 more
Dana Plepys is one of six people receiving the 2019 UIC Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE Award). This Award recognizes the demonstrated excellence of academic professional staff members and affirms UIC’s highest… Read more
MS 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 more
This 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 more
Professor 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 more
Date & 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 more
NOVEMBER 18-21, 2019 - Members of the SAGE2™ Team who attended the IEEE/ACM SC19 conference - from University of Hawai’i at Manoa’s Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (LAVA), University of Illinois at… Read more
OmegaDesk 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 more
A 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 more
Cancer has a major impact on society all around the world. It affects people of all population groups though certain groups bear more burden of cancer. Some of the contributing factors for cancer disparities are socioeconomic status, geographic… Read more
Participants 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 more
In 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 more
Google 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 more
The 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 more
Caterpillar 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 more
PhD 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 more
Content 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 more
Individuals 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 more
Participants 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 more
SENSEI 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 more
The 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 more
NOVEMBER 1, 2018 -- Lance Long, Senior Research Programmer for the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), which is part of the Computer Science (CS) department at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is a recipient of the 2018 UIC Award… Read more
BactoGeNIE, 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 more
JUNE 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 more
To 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 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 more
OCTOBER 22, 2018 - UIC EVL/MFA graduate JD Pirtle recently started his own company, Depth and Light which is an education, technology, and design studio+consultancy. Its mission is to help students, teachers, and learners of all ages feel confident… Read more
Participants 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
The 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 more
To 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 more
June 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 more
Despite 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 more
AUGUST 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 more
EDITOR’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 more
The 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 more
In 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 more
June 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 more
Newcity 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 more
Global-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 more
The 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 more
Just 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 more
Today’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 more
Since 2017, Leonardo commenced a quarterly recognition of exceptional peer reviewers noted for their in-depth and deeply constructive feedback on papers under consideration for publication. Among those recognized in the August 2019 edition of… Read more
Capitalizing 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 more
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article about UIC CS/EVL PhD graduate Victor Mateevitsi appears on the UIC Computer Science NEWS website. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * by Andrea Poet March 14, 2019 A jet suit that can travel more than 30… Read more
September 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 more
Thursday, 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 more
The 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 more
For those attending SC19 in Denver, Colorado, we will hold the “SAGE2 11th Annual International SC BOF: Scalable Amplified Group Environment for Global Collaboration” Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting: Tuesday, November 19 12:15PM… Read more
SpiderSense 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 more
The 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 more
NOVEMBER 7, 2018 - Trina Roy, a UIC alumna who majored in Computer Science and worked as a research assistant at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), is being honored with an Outstanding Achievement Award by the College of Engineering… Read more
In 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 more
by 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 more
We 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 more
In 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)… Read more
Friday, 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 more
TEDxUofIChicago 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 more
Arthur 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 more
Participants 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 more
EVL 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 more
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 more
The 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 more
Hearts 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 more
SEPTEMBER 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 more
On 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 more
May 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 more
The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab of Chicago worked with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago to use virtual reality to help people needing rehabilitation be more enthusiastic and energetic when doing… Read more
September 9, 2018 - The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a three-year grant to the UIC Computer Science (CS) Department’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) to acquire the “Composable Platform as a Service Instrument for… Read more
Princeton 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 more
WEDNESDAY, 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 more
This 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 more
SENSEI: 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 more
Wallcology, 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 more
Data &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 more
The 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 more
OCTOBER 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 more
Exploring 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 more
PhD Candidate: Timothy Luciani Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 Time: 10 am CT Location: ERF 2068 (Continuum) Committee: Dr. G. Elisabeta Marai (Chair) Dr. Andrew Johnson Dr. Robert Kenyon Dr. Angus Forbes, University of California, Santa Cruz Dr… Read more
On-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 more
CAVE2™, 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 more
October 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 more
Therapeutic games play an increasingly important role in modern healthcare. Games have been used to treat a broad spectrum of individuals, including patients with dementia, stroke, ADHD, cancer, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to name a few. We will… Read more
As 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 more
To 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
Participants 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 more
Funded 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 more
PhD Candidate John Novak and Prof. Kenyon’s paper “Effects of User Controlled Speech Rate on Intelligibility in Noisy Environments” Interspeech 2018, in Hyderabad, India this September! Their paper was one of twelve nominated out… Read more
May 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 more
SAGEBoard 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 more
Developed 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 more
EVL 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 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 more
OCTOBER 18, 2018 - “Herstory: Digital Innovations Symposium and Book Signing,” celebrates the book “New Media Futures (NMF): The Rise of Women in the Digital Arts.” The Symposium will take place at the National Center for… Read more
Hacking 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 more
Participants 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 more
MAY 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 more
This 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 more
This 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 more
September 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 more
Fleet 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 more
Wednesday, 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 more
The Video Game Art Gallery hosts Electronic Visualization Laboratory and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago student virtual reality projects for their first collaborative, curated show. The works represent creative virtual reality immersive… Read more
A November 27, 2018 story on the University of Illinois Cancer Center’s website profiles leading-edge cancer and computer science research being conducted by G. Elisabeta (Liz) Marai, a UIC Associate Professor of Computer Science and the… Read more
Wednesday, 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 more
UIC 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 more
Victor 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 more
JUNE 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 more
OCTOBER 15, 2018 - “Chicago New Media 1973-1992” is a public exhibition, to be held November 1 - December 15, 2018, that illuminates the largely untold story of Chicago’s computer-based art and design legacy, and provides new… Read more

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