Publications

2007

Babu, S., Suma, E., Barnes, T., and Hodges, L.F. (2007). "Using Immersive Virtual Humans for Training in Social Conversational Protocols in a South Indian Culture." IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, to appear.

Suma, E., Babu, S., and Hodges, L.F. (2007). "Comparison of Travel Techniques in a Complex, Multi-Level 3D Environment." IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007, to appear.

Ulinski, A., Zanbaka, C., Wartell, Z., Goolkasian, P., and Hodges, L.F. (2007). "Two Handed Selection Techniques for Volumetric Data." IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007, to appear.

2006

Babu, S., Liao, P.C., Shin, M.C., Tsap, L.V. (2006). "Recovery and Visualization of 3D Structure of Chromosomes." EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 2006.

Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Barnes, T., and Hodges, L.F. (2006). "What Would You Like to Talk About?" An Evaluation of Social Conversations with a Virtual Receptionist." 6th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Los Angeles, U.S.A, August 2006, J. Gratch et al.(Eds.) Springer-Verlag).

Barnes, T., Stamper, J., and Madhyastha, T. (2006). "Comparative analysis of concept derivation using the q-matrix method and facets." Proceedings of the AAAI 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Educational Data Mining Workshop (AAAI2006), Boston, MA, July 17, 2006.

Barnes, T (2006). "Evaluation of the q-matrix method in understanding student logic proofs." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2006), Melbourne Beach, Florida, May 11-13, 2006.

Clua, E., Feijó, B., Schwartz, J., Graças, M., Perlin, K., Tori, R., and Barnes, T. (2006). "Games and Interactivity in Computer Science Education." Panel presentation at SIGGRAPH 2006, the ACMs 33rd International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, Boston, MA, July 30-August 3, 2006.

Schmugge, S., Kamoun, W., Villalobos, J., Clemens, M., and Shin, M. (2006). "Segmentation of Vasculature for Intravital Microscopy Using Bridging Vessel Snake." 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Arlington, VA, April 2006.

Whitney, S.L., Sparto, P.J., Hodges, L.F., Babu, S.V., Furman, J.M., and Redfurn, M.S. (2006). "Responses to a Virtual Reality Grocery Store in Persons with and without Vestibular Dysfunction." Journal on CyberPsychology and Behavior, Volume 9, Number 2, 2006 (Mary Ann Liebert Inc.)

Wolz, U., Barnes, T., Parberry, I. "Digital games as vehicles for learning." ACMs Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE2006), Houston, Texas, USA, March 1-5, 2006.

Zanbaka, C., Goolkasian, P., and Hodges, L. F. (2006). "Can a virtual cat persuade you? The role of gender and realism in speaker persuasiveness." CHI 2006 Montréal, Québec, Canada, ACM Press, 1153-1162.

2005

Babu, S., Zanbaka, C., Jackson, J., Chung, T-O., Lok, B., Shin, M.C., and Hodges,, L.F. (2005). "Virtual Human Physiotherapist Framework for Personalized Training and Rehabilitation." Graphics Interface 2005 Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, May 9 - 11, 2005.

Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Inugala, R., Rao, S., Barnes, T., Hodges, L.F. (2005). "Marve: a prototype virtual human interface framework for studying human-virtual human interaction." Proceedings of the 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Kos, Greece, September 2005, T. Panayiotopoulos et al.(Eds.) Springer-Verlag), pp.120-133.

Babu, S., Liao,P.-C., Shin, M.C., and Tsap, L.V. "Recovery and Visualization of 3D Structure of Chromosomes from Tomographic Reconstruction Images." Special issue of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing on Advanced Signal/ Image Processing Techniques for Bioinformatics, to appear

Barnes, T. (2005). "Experimental analysis of the q-matrix method in automated knowledge assessment." Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE 2005), August 29-31, 2005, Oranjestad, Aruba.

Barnes, T. (2005). "The q-matrix method: Mining student response data for knowledge." Proceedings of the AAAI-2005 Workshop on Educational Data Mining, July 9-13, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA.

Barnes, T., Bitzer, D., and Vouk, M. (2005). "Experimental analysis of the q-matrix method in knowledge discovery." Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS) 2005, May 25-28, 2005, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Dong, H.J., Chang, S.L., Gye, B.J., Sang, H.A.., Chan, Y.P., Hodges, L.F. and Song, G.S. (2005). "An evaluation of techniques for controlling the speed of travel in immersive V.E." Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005, Macao, China), pp.150-152.

Dong, H.J. Chang, S.L., Gye, B.J., Song, C.G., Babu, S., and Hodges. L.F. (2005). "Differentiation on information gathering ability in real and virtual world." 13th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005, Macao, China), pp.157 – 159.

Whitney, S.L., Sparto, P.J., Hodges, L.F., Babu, S.V., Furman, J.M., and Redfurn, M.S. (2005). "Responses to a virtual reality grocery store in persons with and without vestibular dysfunction." The Fourth International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR 2005, Sept. 19-21, Catalina Island, CA).

Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S., Ulinski, A., Hodges, L.F. (2005). "Comparison of path visualizations and cognitive measures relative to travel technique in a virtual environment." IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 11. 6 pp. 694-705.

Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Goolkasian, P., Hodges, L. F., (2005). "Lessons Learned in Assessing Human-Virtual Human Interaction" (Invited Paper). First International Conference on Virtual Reality, Las Vegas, Nevada 22 - 27 July.

Ziemkiewicz, C., Ulinski, A., Zanbaka, C., Hardin, S., Hodges, L. F. (2005). "Interactive Digital Patient for Triage Nurse Training" (Invited Paper). First International Conference on Virtual Reality, Las Vegas, Nevada 22 - 27 July.

2004

S. Babu, P.-C. Liao, M. C. Shin, and L. V. Tsap, “Towards Recovery of 3D Chromosome Structure,” IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion (held in conjuction with CVPR 2004), Washington, D.C., June 2004.

J. Cendan, B. Lok, C. Harrison, K. Johnsen, R. Dickerson, M. Shin, A. Stevens, M. Duerson, and D. S. Lind, “The Use of Virtual Patients and Instructors to Teach Clinical Presentations,” 4th Annual Medical Education Week, College of Medicine, University of Florida, May 10-14, 2004.

J. Cendan, B. Lok, C. Harrison, K. Johnsen, R. Dickerson, M. Shin, A. Stevens, M. Duerson, D. S. Lind, “Multimodal Interaction with Life-Sized Virtual Characters for Training and Education,” Florida Technology Transfer Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, May 17, 2004.

S. Jayaram, S. Schmugge, M. C. Shin, and L. V. Tsap, “Effect of Colorspace Transformation, the Illuminance Component, and Color Modeling on Skin Detection,” Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Washington, D.C., June 2004 (256/873).

K. Johnsen, R. Dickerson, A. Raij, B. Lok, J. Jackson, M. Shin, J. Hernandez, A. Stevens, S. Lind, “Experience in Using Immersive Virtual Characters to Educate Medical Communication Skills,” To Appear in the Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005.

Lok, B. and Hodges, L.F. (2004) Human-Computer Interaction in Virtual Reality, in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, William Sims Bainbridge, Ed. To appear in 2004.

S. Rao. L. F. Hodges, S. J. Schmugge,“Vision Based System for Head Pose Tracking in Indoor Immersive Environments,” International Conference on Augmented Reality and Tele-existence -ICAT 2004, Korea.

M. C. Shin, L. V. Tsap, and D. B. Goldgof, “Gesture Recognition Using Bezier Curves for Visualization Navigation from Registered 3-D Data,” Journal of Pattern Recognition, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2004, Pages 1011-1024.

Sparto PJ, Furman JM, Whitney SL, Hodges LF, Redfern MS (2004) Vestibular rehabilitation using a wide field of view virtual environment. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 4836-4839.

L. V. Tsap, and M. C. Shin, “Dynamic Disparity Adjustment and Histogram-Based Filtering of Range Data for Fast 3-D Hand Tracking,” Journal of Digital Signal Processing, Volume 14, Issue 6, November 2004, pages 550-565.

Watson, B.A., Hodges, L.F., and Walker, N. (2004). Supra-threshold Control of Peripheral LOD. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2004 SIGGRAPH Conference 23,3, pp. 750-759.

Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S. Xiao, D., Ulinski, A, and Hodges L.F. (2004). “Effects of Travel Technique on Cognition in Virtual Environments,” In Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2004, Chicago, IL, 149-156, 286.

Zanbaka, C., Ulinski, A., Goolkasian, P., Hodges, L. F. (2004). "Effects of Virtual Human Presence on Task Performance", Proceeding of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence (ICAT), pp. 174-181.