This should be a good talk tomorrow (FRI) down at UNM ARTSLab.
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GFX Caf? Seminar Friday March 28, 2008
12noon, ARTS Lab Black Box Theatre ** Note change of venue **
Food will be served
TITLE:
Virtual Windows: A framework for spatially-aware, ad-hoc visualization by Mark
Waligora, Advanced Graphics Lab
ABSTRACT:
Spatially-aware systems have been used successfully in the past for the
visualization of complex data sets because they allow the user to establish
spatial relationships in the presented data. However, such systems have been
limited to a single user or to specific display media and therefore do not offer
the flexibility to handle a wide range of visualization applications. For this
reason, they are not often used in the visualization community.
In this talk, we present a novel system that allows multiple users to interact
with data in an ad-hoc fashion and is capable of handling different kinds of
display surfaces and modes of interaction. Our ad-hoc Virtual Window Framework
provides multiple users with displays that can be manipulated and combined in
physical space to view different portions of complex data sets in a
corresponding virtual space. The displays function as "windows" which the user
can look through to see into a virtual world, much like looking through a window
of a house to see outside. We designed the system with flexibility in mind; we
demonstrate this by using different kinds of display devices simultaneously for
a wide variety of applications. Our system also works with augmented reality
devices, one of which we have built at UNM, allowing us to use our windows to
visualize data superimposed on real-world objects. We demonstrate the efficacy
of our system by using it to visualize several complex, real- world data sets in
a hands-on demonstration.
This is joint work with Pradeep Sen and Joe Kniss.
BIO:
Mark Waligora got his BS from New Mexico Tech. He is currently an MS student in
Computer Science at UNM, working with Prof. Pradeep Sen.eering University of New
Mexico
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