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xREZ VR Arena Research Published and Presented at ERVR 2020

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How can we design a more fluid attendee experience for VR in high-traffic public settings? That’s the question the xREZ team working on user experience in virtual reality addresses in our new paper titled, “Designing a VR Arena: Integrating Virtual Environments and Physical Spaces for Social Sensorial Data-Driven Experiences” is...
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Introducing…. xREZ’s Elemental Mayhem

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The Magic Leap Winter DevJam made for an awesome end to the Fall 2019 semester for the lab! Magic Leap called for teams of developers to demonstrate the mixed reality device’s hand tracking capability. Spatial computing is a large part of what we research here at xREZ, so getting creative...
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xREZ Team Publishes New Insights About VR at ERVR 2018

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xREZ Lab’s team on user experience in virtual reality published their third paper, “From Being There to Feeling Real: The Effect of Real World Expertise on Presence in Virtual Environments” at The Electronic Imaging Symposium’s Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality (ERVR) 2018 conference, held January 28th – February 2nd in...
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Segmentation Team Publishes at ACM’s Applied Perception Symposium

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The 3D Segmentation team published their fourth paper, “How experts’ mental models affects 3D image segmentation” at ACM’s Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), held July 22-23, 2016 in Anaheim, California. The ACM published the paper to the SAP ’16 proceedings. The paper outlines the research design behind the following hypothesis: Provided...
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xREZ Presence Research at ERVR 2016

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xREZ Art + Science Lab students Max J. Parola and Violet Johnson, together with professor Ruth West presented their research on presence in virtual environments at The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2016 conference held in San Francisco Feb. 18, 2016. Their paper, “Turning Presence Inside-Out: MetaNarratives” traces operational definitions of presence from...
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TxHATS at Umlauf March 2015: xREZ Spring Collaboration

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The TexasHATS (Humanities, Art, Technology & Science) experts network is geared toward creating “a network of networks” – a way for Texans who are working in interdisciplinary fields to plan the future of existing hybrid, interdisciplinary collaborations and projects. The group convened at Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum in Austin,...
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New Publication – “Embodied Information Behavior, Mixed Reality and Big Data”

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(Images courtesy: Microsoft © 2015, DAQRI LLC © 2015, Atheer Labs © 2015) Professor Ruth West, together with two students and a University of Tasmania collaborator, published in the proceedings of the SPIE, The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2015. West presented the paper to an enthusiastic audience at the conference held in...
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Publication: “DataRemix: Designing The Datamade Through ArtScience Collaboration”

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Professor Ruth West published in the proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers tri-conference event held Oct. 13-18, 2013 in Atlanta Georgia. IEEE’s “VIS” event focused on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Information Visualization, and Scientific Visualization. The paper “DataRemix: Designing The Datamade Through ArtScience Collaboration,” is a...
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NEA Grant Awarded to xREZ Lab for One Antarctic Night

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We are thrilled to announce that xREZ lab has received a prestigious NEA art works grant for creation of the interactive artwork “Instrument: One Antarctic Night.” INSTRUMENT: One Antarctic Night is an interactive artwork created from 287‚800 images of the universe captured recently by a robotic telescope in Antarctica. Using this...
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UEC Talk on rePhoto

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This past Wednesday our team, including Robert Pless and Abby Stylianou from Washington University in St. Louis, met with the Urban Ecology Collaborative, led by Erica Smith Fichman from Philadelphia Parks and Recreation. The topic of this webinar is rePhoto: Quantitative Citizen Science through Repeat Photography. You can watch the recorded webinar below.
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New Publication – Scalable Metadata Environments

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We recently published our work in the design of scalable metadata environments! The research was presented at the SPIE Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality conference in San Francisco and published in the proceedings. Citation: Ruth G. West ; Todd Margolis ; Andrew Prudhomme ; Jürgen P. Schulze ; Iman Mostafavi ;...
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Understanding the contributions of citizen scientists to biological imaging.

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xREZ lab researchers are collaboraring with researchers at Washington University St. Louis and at the University of Vermont to understand the mechanisms through which citizen science contributions to biological imaging projects are useful by providing tools to motivate ongoing, continued engagement in projects and to make possible more quantitative measurements through...
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What do humans see, think and do when they interpret 3D imaging data?

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xREZ lab director Ruth West is collaborating with Prof. Cindy Grimm, Oregon State University, and Prof. Tao Ju at Washington University St. Louis in research to understand what human beings see, think and do as they navigate 3D/4D volume data, such as MRI or CT imaging and segment it during the...
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xREZ VR Arena Research Published and Presented at ERVR 2020

Introducing…. xREZ’s Elemental Mayhem

xREZ Team Publishes New Insights About VR at ERVR 2018

Segmentation Team Publishes at ACM’s Applied Perception Symposium

xREZ Presence Research at ERVR 2016

TxHATS at Umlauf March 2015: xREZ Spring Collaboration

New Publication – “Embodied Information Behavior, Mixed Reality and Big Data”

Publication: “DataRemix: Designing The Datamade Through ArtScience Collaboration”

NEA Grant Awarded to xREZ Lab for One Antarctic Night

UEC Talk on rePhoto

New Publication – Scalable Metadata Environments

Understanding the contributions of citizen scientists to biological imaging.

What do humans see, think and do when they interpret 3D imaging data?

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