Benjamin C. Lok
Curriculum Vitae – August 27,
2009
CSE E342
Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(352) 392-1492 (voice), (352) 392-1220 (fax), lok@cise.ufl.edu, http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~lok
(August 2009 –
present) Associate Professor – Department of Computer and Information
Science and Engineering, University of
Florida
(August 2003 – August
2009) Assistant Professor – University
of Florida.
(June 2006 – present) Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery – Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia
(August 2002 – July 2003) Post Doctoral Research Fellow – UNC
at Charlotte
Ph.D. in Computer Science (May 2002), Advisor: Professor Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
Dissertation: Interacting with Dynamic Real Objects in Virtual Environments
M.S. in Computer Science (May 1999), Advisor: Professor Gary Bishop
B.S. in Computer Science (magna cum laude), Minor in Mathematics (May 1997), Advisor: Professor Sujeet Shenoi
· Steering Committee of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (2009)
· Program Co-Chair IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, ACM VRST 2009, IEEE/ACM ISMAR 2009 (Area Chair)
· Speaker at the National Academy of Science Kavli France-US Frontiers of Science Symposium in Roscoff, France (2008)
· IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 Best Paper
· NSF Career Award (2007)
·
· ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics 2003 Top 3 Paper (2003)
· Link Foundation Fellowship in Advanced Simulation and Training (2001)
· National Science Foundation Fellowship (1997)
· Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (1995)
· Membership: Phi Kappa Phi (1996), Tau Beta Pi (1995)
·
· National Merit Scholar (1993)
4 PhD students (Joonhao
Chuah, Aaron Kotranza, Brent Rossen, Mallory McManamon)
2 MS students (Shivashankar
Halan, Ethan Blackwelder)
1 Undergraduate
student (Willie Maddox)
1 Post-doctoral
fellow (Dr. Yong Ho Hwang)
Ph.D. Alumni
2009, John
Quarles (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio), LINK Fellow
2008, Andrew
Raij (Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Memphis)
2008, Kyle
Johnsen (Assistant Professor, University of Georgia), HMMI Grad Student
Mentor Award
M.S. Alumni
2009, Lu (lois) Cao
(MFA program, University of Florida)
2005, Cyrus
Harrison (Lawrence Livermore Research Labs)
2005, George
Mora (Industry)
B.S. Alumni
2008, Harold
Rodriguez (GrooveShark.com)
2008, Corey
Forbus (Industry)
2007, Joshua
Horton (Ph.D. program, University of Florida)
2006, Robert
Dickerson (Ph.D. program, Virginia Tech)
2005, Aaron
Kotranza (Ph.D. program, University of Florida)
2005, Sayed
Hashimi (Industry)
2005, Art Homs (Industry)
2005, Andrew
Joubert (Industry)
2005, Sam
Preston (Advanced
Extramural Grants (Total: $2,836,112. PI: $1,291,117, Co-PI/Consultant: $1,544,995)
Current
NIH, R01 Grant, (Co-PI, PI: Robinson),
(scored 121 – top 1.9%, to be awarded)
Pain Treatment Decisions: Influence of Sex,
Race, and Age
9/1/2009 – 8/31/11, Total: $1,095,473 (20% responsibility), NIH Score: 121 (top 1.9%)
NIH, R56 Grant, (Co-PI, PI: Robinson)
Pain Treatment Decisions: Influence of Sex,
Race, and Age
9/1/2008 – 8/31/09, Total: $323,454, (21% responsibility)
Drager Medical Contract (Co-PI, PI: Lampotang)
Mixed Reality Simulation for Anesthesia Machine Training
10/1/2008 – 9/30/2009, Total: $35,000, (5% responsibility)
NSF, Medium Grant, (IIS- 0803652) (PI, Co-PIs: Lind, Ferdig)
HCC-Medium: Mixed Reality Virtual Humans for Training
9/1/2008 – 8/31/2012, Total: $580,000, (53% responsibility)
NIH,
R03 Grant, (R03LM009646-01) (PI, 2nd PI: Cendan)
Immersive Virtual Patients with Abnormal
Clinical Conditions for Medical Student Training
8/15/2008 – 8/14/2010, Total: $137,014, (86% responsibility)
Administrative Grant Award (8/15/2009-8/14/2010), Total: $36625
Association
of Surgical Education, CESERT Grant, (Consultant, PI: Lind)
The Use of a Virtual Character-Enhanced
Simulator to Teach and Assess Breast History and Examination Skills
7/1/2008 – 6/30/2010, Total: $78,000 (4% responsibility)
NSF, Career Award, (IIS-0643557) (PI)
Studying
Diversity Issues with Immersive Virtual Humans
8/1/2007 – 7/31/2012, $405,695
NSF, Research Experience for
Undergraduates, (IIS-0733800) (PI)
Studying Diversity Issues with Immersive
Virtual Humans
8/1/2007 – 7/31/2008, $12,000
Medical
College of Georgia Contract (PI)
Virtual Humans to Teach Medical
Communication Skills
Completed
Virtual Humans to Teach Pharmacy
Communication Skills
NSF CCF-0713983 (PI)
CPA (Gr&Vis): Student Panel at IEEE
Virtual Reality 2007 Conference
Internal Grants ($21,000)
2005
Contract from Professor Michael Robinson on
Virtual Humans for Pain Studies
2005, $3,240
2004 College of
A Pilot Study to Examine the Use of Virtual
Patient and Instructor in Teaching Medical Students Communication Skills using
an Abdominal pain Scenario
6/1/2004-12/31/2004, $4,900
2004 Professor Sumi Helal Contract
Distance Dining
2004, $10,240
* - UF graduate student supervised
** - UF undergraduate student supervised
*** - graduate student supervised while a post-doc.
AR – Acceptance Rate reported when known
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1.
Quarles,
J.*, Lampotang, S., Fischler, I., Fishwick, P., and B. Lok, “A Mixed Reality Approach for Interactively Blending
Dynamic Models with Corresponding Physical Phenomena” (accepted 2009) ACM
Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.
2.
Quarles,
J.*, Lampotang, S., Fischler, I., Fishwick, P., and B. Lok, “Scaffolded Learning with Mixed Reality” (accepted) Computers
and Graphics: Special Issue on Virtual Reality.
3.
Kotranza,
A.*, Lok, B., Deladisma, A., Pugh,
C.M., and D. S. Lind, “Mixed Reality Humans: Evaluating Behavior, Usability,
and Acceptability,” (accepted) IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics. July/August 2009.
4.
Deladisma,
A., Gupta, M., Kotranza, A., Bittner, B., Imam, T., Swinson, D., Gucwa, A., Nesbit,
R., Lok, B., Pugh, C., and D. Lind
(2008). “A Pilot Study to Integrate an Immersive Virtual Patient with a Breast
Complaint and Breast Exam Simulator into a Surgery Clerkship”, (accepted) American
Journal of Surgery.
5.
Ferdig,
R., Coutts, J., DiPietro, J., Lok, B.,
and Davis, N (2007). “Innovative Technologies for Multicultural Education
Needs”, Multicultural Education and Technology Journal, 1(1), 47-63.
6.
Raij,
A.*, Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Lok,
B., Cohen, M., Duerson, M., Pauley, R., Stevens, A., Wagner, P., and D. Lind
(2007). "Comparing Interpersonal Interactions with a Virtual Human to
those with a Real Human," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and
Computer Graphics, Vol .13, No. 3, May/June 2007, 443-457.
7.
Deladisma,
A., Cohen, M., Stevens, A., Wagner, P., Lok,
B., Bernard, T., Oxendine, C., Schumacher, L., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson,
R.**, Raij, A.*, Wells, R.*, Duerson, M., Harper, J., and D. Lind (2006). “Do
Medical Students Respond Empathetically to a Virtual Patient?” The American
Journal of Surgery, Vol 193, Issue 6, 2007, 756-760.
8.
Lok, B., Ferdig, R., Raij, A.*, Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Coutts, J.,
Stevens, A., and D. Lind (2007) “Applying Virtual Reality in Medical
Communication Education: Current Findings and Potential Teaching and Learning
Benefits of Immersive Virtual Patients”, Journal of Virtual Reality,
Spring
9.
Lok, B. (2006). “Teaching Communication Skills with Virtual Humans” (Invited
Article) IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol 26, No. 3, 10-13.
10.
Johnsen,
K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*, Harrison, C.*, Lok, B., Stevens, A., and D. Lind. (2005). “Using Immersive Virtual Characters to
Educate Medical Communication Skills,” Journal on Presence:
Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol 15, No. 1, 33-46.
11.
Stevens,
A., Hernandez, J., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*, Harrison, C.*,
DiPietro, M., Allen, B., Ferdig, R., Foti, S., Jackson, J., Shin, M., Cendan,
J., Watson, R., Duerson, M., Lok, B.,
Cohen, M., Wagner, P., and D. Lind (2005).
“The Use of Virtual Patients to Teach Medical Students Communication
Skills.” The American Journal of
Surgery, Jun; 191(6):806-811.
12. Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S., Xiao, D., Ulinski, A. and L. Hodges (2005). “Path Visualizations and Cognition in Virtual Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11.6: 694-705.
13. Lok, B. (2004). “Towards Merging Real and Virtual Spaces,” Communications of the ACM, August 2004, 47.8: 48-53.
14. Lok, B., Naik, S., Whitton, M., and F. Brooks (2003). “Effects of Interaction Modality and Avatar Fidelity on Task Performance and Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments,” Journal on Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Vol. 12, No. 6, 615-628.
Peer-Reviewed Conference
Articles
ACM I3D (2003, 2001), ISMAR: (2009, 2008, 2005), SIGCHI
(2007), VRST (2007), IVA (2009, 2008, 2008), IEEE 3DUI (2009, 2008, 2005, 2004), VR (2009, 2009, 2008, 2008, 2008, 2008,
2006, 2005, 2004, 2003), Medicine Meets
Virtual Reality (2008, 2006)
1.
Kotranza,
A., Pugh, C., Lind, D., and B. Lok.
“Virtual Humans That Touch Back: Enhancing Nonverbal Communication with Virtual
Humans through Bidirectional Touch” In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on 3D
User Interfaces 2009. Lafayette, LA, March 14-15, 2009, pp. 23-30.
2.
Kotranza,
A., Lok, B., Pugh, C., and D. Lind, "Virtual Humans That Touch Back:
Enhancing Nonverbal Communication with Virtual Humans through Bidirectional
Touch," (short paper) In Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2009.
Lafayette, LA, March 14-18, 2009, pp. 175-178.
3.
Raij,
A., Kotranza, A., Lind, D., and B. Lok.
“Virtual Experiences for Social Perspective Taking” (short paper) Proceedings
of IEEE Virtual Reality 2009. Lafayette, LA, March 14-18, 2009, pp. 99-102.
4.
Quarles,
J., Lampotang, S., Fischler, I., Fishwick, P., and B. Lok, “A Mixed Reality System for Enabling Collocated After
Action Review" 7th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and
Augmented Reality - ISMAR 2008, Sept 15-18, Cambridge, UK, 107-116. (AR:
23.7%)
5.
Rossen,
B.*, Johnsen, K.*, Deladisma, A., Lind, D., and B. Lok. “Virtual Humans
Elicit Skin-Tone Bias Consistent with Real-World Skin-Tone Biases” (short
paper) Intelligent Virtual Agents 2008, Sept. 1-3,
6.
Rodriguez,
H., Lok, B., Lind, D., and D. Beck,
"Audio Analysis of Human/Virtual-Human Interaction" (short paper) Intelligent
Virtual Agents 2008, Sept. 1-3, Tokyo, JP, 154-161.
7.
Quarles,
J., Lampotang, S., Fischler, I., Fishwick, P., and B. Lok, “Tangible User Interfaces Compensate for Low Spatial
Cognition” IEEE 3D User Interfaces 2008, March 8-9,
8.
Kotranza,
A.*,Deladisma, A., Lind, D., Pugh, C., and B.
Lok, “Virtual Human + Tangible Interface = Mixed Reality Human. An Initial Exploration with a Virtual Breast
Exam Patient.” IEEE Virtual Reality
2008, March 10-12,
9.
Quarles,
J., Lampotang, S., Fischler, I., Fishwick, P., and B. Lok, “Mixed Reality Merges Abstract and Concrete Knowledge” IEEE
Virtual Reality 2008, March 10-12,
10.
Raij,
A.*, and B. Lok “IPSVIZ: An
After-Action Review Tool for Human-Virtual Human Experiences” IEEE Virtual
Reality 2008, March 10-12, Reno, NV, 91-98. (AR: 26.1%)
11.
Johnsen,
K.* and B. Lok. An Evaluation of
Immersive Displays for Virtual Human Experiences. IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, (short
paper) March 10-12,
12.
Deladisma,
A., Johnsen, K.*, Raij, A.*, Rossen, B.*, Kotranza, A.*,Kalapurakal, M., Szlam,
S., Bittner, J., Sinwson, D., Lok, B.,
and D. Lind (2008). Medical student
satisfaction using a virtual patient system to learn history-taking and
communication skills. Student Health
Technology Information, 2008, 132:101-105.
13.
Johnsen,
K.*, Raij, A.*, Stevens, A., D. Lind and B.
Lok (2007). "The Validity of a Virtual Human Experience for
Interpersonal Skills Education" in SIGCHI conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems , ACM Press, New York, NY, 2007, 1049-1058. (AR: 25%)
14.
Kotranza,
A.*,Quarels, J., Wang, X., and B. Lok
(2006). “Mixed Reality: Are Two Hands Better Than One?” (short paper) ACM
Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2006, Nov. 1-3,
15.
Raij,
A, Johnsen, K, Dickerson, R.**, Lok, B.,
Cohen, M., Stevens, A., Bernard, T., Oxendine, C., Wagner, P., Lind, D (2006).
“Interpersonal Scenarios: Virtual ≈ Real?” IEEE Virtual Reality 2006,
59-66. (AR: 26%)
16.
Dickerson,
R.**, Johnsen, K.*, Raij, A.*, Lok, B.,
Stevens, A., Bernard, T., and D. Lind (2006). "Virtual Patients:
Assessment of Synthesized Versus Recorded Speech," Medicine Meets
Virtual Reality 14, 114-119.
17.
Wang,
X., Kotranza, A.*,Quarels, J., Lok, B.,
and D. Allen (2005). “A
Pipeline for Rapidly Incorporating Real Objects into a Mixed Environment,” 4th
IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality,
18.
Wang, X.,
Kotranza, A.*,Quarels, J., Lok, B.,
and D. Allen (2005). “Rapidly
Incorporating Real Objects for Evaluation of Engineering Designs in a Mixed
Reality Environment,” New Directions in 3D User Interfaces Workshop, IEEE Virtual
Reality 2005,
19.
Dickerson,
R.**, Johnsen, K.*, Raij, A.*, Lok, B.,
Hernandez, J., Stevens, A., and D. Lind. (2005). “Evaluating a Script-Based Approach to Simulating Patient-Doctor
Interaction,” SCS 2005 International Conference on Human-Computer Interface
Advances for Modeling and Simulating (SIMCHI ’05), 79-84.
20.
Johnsen,
K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*, Lok, B.,
Jackson, J., Shin, M., Hernandez, J., Stevens, A., and D. Lind. “Experiences in
Using Immersive Virtual Characters to Educate Medical Communication Skills,” IEEE
Virtual Reality 2005,
21.
Whitton, M., Lok, B., Insko, B., and F. Brooks (2005). “Integrating Real and
Virtual Objects” (Invited Paper) 1st
International Conference on Virtual Reality 2005,
22.
Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Goolkasian, P., and L. Hodges (2005). “Lessons Learned in
Virtual Human Research” (Invited Paper) 1st
International Conference on Virtual Reality 2005,
23. Lok, B., Naik, S., Whitton, M., and F. Brooks (2004). “Experiences in Extemporaneous Incorporation of Real Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments,” Beyond Glove and Wand Based Interaction Workshop, IEEE Virtual Reality 2004, Chicago, IL, 107-110.
24.
Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S., Xiao, D., Ulinski, A. and L. Hodges (2004). “Effects of Travel Technique on
Cognition in Virtual Environments,” IEEE Virtual Reality 2004,
25. Lok, B., Naik, S., Whitton, M., and F. Brooks (2003). “Incorporating Dynamic Real Objects into Virtual Environments,” ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, 701. (Abridged version of ACM 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics paper, one of three selected for representation)
26.
Lok, B.,
Naik, S., Whitton, M., and F. Brooks (2003). “Incorporating Dynamic Real Objects
into Virtual Environments,” ACM
2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics,
27.
Lok, B.,
Naik, S., Whitton, M., and F. Brooks (2003). “Effects of Handling Real Objects and
Avatar Fidelity on Cognitive Task Performance in Virtual Environments,”
IEEE Virtual Reality 2003,
28. Mortensen, J., Vinayagamoorthy, V., Slater, M., Steed, A., Lok, B., and M. Whitton (2002), “Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments,” Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments 2002, Barcelona, Spain, May 2002: 30-31.
29.
Lok, B.
(2001). “Online Model
Reconstruction for Interactive Virtual Environments,” ACM 2001 Symposium on Interactive 3D
Graphics,
30.
Lok, B.,
Bauer, S., Monacello, C., Finnerty, S., and S. Shenoi (1997). “An Organizational Framework for Distributed
Medical Information,” Third Joint Conference on Information Systems ’97, 50-51.
31. Lok, B., Bauer, S., Monacello, C., Finnerty, S., and S. Shenoi (1997). “A Hypermedia System for Breast Cancer Screening,” Mid-America Symposium of Emerging Computing Technologies.
Magazine and Book Chapters/Articles/Editorships
1.
Lind,
D. and B. Lok (2006). The Role of
Virtual Patients in Medical Education: Teaching Tool Versus Technological
Trend. (Invited Article) Focus on Surgical Education 2006. 23(1), 28-29.
2. Proceedings of the 2005 SCS Human-Computer Interface Advances for Modeling and Simulation (SIMCHI ’05) (2005) Eds. Fishwick, P. and B. Lok, 2005.
3.
Lok, B.
(2004). “Human
Computer Interaction in Three Dimensional Computer Graphics.” Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction.
Ed. William Bainbridge.
4.
Lok, B.
and L. Hodges (2004). “Human
Computer Interaction in Virtual Reality.” Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction. Ed. William Bainbridge.
5.
Lok, B.
(2003). “Evaluation
and Application of Algorithms for a Hybrid Environment System.” Energy,
Simulation Training, Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation, Research Papers of
the Link Foundation Fellows. Ed. Brian Thompson.
Abstracts/Poster/Presentations
1.
Gucwa, A.,
Kotranza, A., Raij, A., Rossen, B., Beatty, J., Laserno, C., Park, M., Pugh,
C., Lok, B., Johsen, K., and D. Lind. "The Use of a Mixed Reality Breast
Simulator with an Innovative Feedback System (Touch Map) to Enhance Breast
Examination Skills," Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting
2009, Salt Lake City. April 28th - April 30th 2009.
2.
Gucwa,
A., Beatty, J., Deladisma, A., Kotranza, A., Raij, A., Shah, H., Fox, P.,
Gehlot, A., Kruse, E., McLoughlin, J., Lok, B., Pugh, C., and D. Lind. "A
Pilot Study to Evaluate the Use of Mixed Reality technology as a Tool for
Assessing Medical Students' Communication Skills", 9th Annual
International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), Lake Buena
Vista, FL. January 10-14, 2009.
3.
Gucwa,
A., Beatty, J., Kotranza, A., Rossen, B., Pugh, C., Lok, B., and D. Lind “Gender Differences Among Students Undergoing
a Mixed Reality Simulation in Breast History-Taking and Physical Examination”
Presented at the Association of Women Surgeons 2008.
4.
Deladisma,
A., Imam, T., Kotranza, A.*, Raij, A.*, Bittner, J., Lok, B., Pugh, C., and D. Lind. “The Use of Mixed Reality Humans to
Teach Clinical Skills” to be presented at 47th Annual Conference
on Research in Medical Education (RIME), October 31-November 5th,
2008, San Antonio, TX.
5.
Cendan,
J., Miller, B., Wang, X.*, Horton, J.**, and B. Lok. “Development of Virtual Patient with Fixed Cranial Nerve
Pathology.” Southern Group on
Education Affairs 2008, April 3-5,
6.
Craig,
J., Deladisma, A., Gupta, M., Bittner, J., Johnsen, K.*, Lok, B., and D. Lind. "Novel Integration of a Life-Sized,
Immersive Virtual Instructor with a Mannequin-Based Procedural Simulator to
Teach Central Venous Catheterization." 8th Annual International Meeting
on Simulation in Healthcare.
7.
Gupta,
M., Deladisma, A., Kotranza, A.*, Craig, J., Bittner, J., Johnsen, K.*, Lok, B., and D. Lind. "The Use of
a Virtual Character-Enhanced Simulator to Teach Breast History and Examination
Skills." 8th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare.
8.
Deladisma,
A., Gupta, M., Kotranza, A.*, Bittner, J., Imam, T., Swinson, D., Nesbit, R., Lok, B., Pugh, C., D. Lind. "A
Pilot Study to Integrate an Immersive Virtual Patient with a Breast Complaint
and Breast Exam Simulator into a Medical Student Surgery Clerkship." Association
for Surgical Education, Surgical Education Week 2008.
9.
Davenport,
R., Mann, W., Lutz, B., Shaw, L., and Lok,
B., Perceived personal robotic technology needs among elders with mobility
impairments, International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence
(ICADI), St. Petersburg, Florida, Feb 21-23, 2008.
10.
Mack, D.,
Deladisma, A., Bernard, T., Oxendine, C., Lok,
B., and D. Lind. “Virtual Patients
Reduce Anxiety and Enhance Learning when Teaching Medical Student
Sexual-History Taking Skills”, Society for Simulation in Healthcare. (Research Abstract Award 2nd place Education)
11.
Deladisma,
A., Mack, D., Bernard, T., Oxendine, C. Szlam, S., Wagner, P., Kruse, E., Lok, B., and D. Lind. “Virtual Patients Reduce Anxiety and Enhance
Learning when Teaching Medical Student Sexual-History Taking Skills”, Association
for Surgical Education 2007 Surgical Education Week. (Same as Mack et al.
07 abstract)
12.
Cohen,
M., Stevens, A., Wagner, P., Lok, B.,
Bernard, T., Oxendine, C. Schumacher, L., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij,
A.*, Ross, R. Duerson, M., Parimala, J., and D. Lind. “How Comparable are
Medical Student Empathetic Interactions in a Similar Virtual
Patient/Standardized Patient Abdominal Pain Scenario?” Southern Group on
Education Affairs 2006.
13.
Bernard,
T., Stevens, A., Wagner, P., Bernard, N., Schumacher, L., Johnsen, K.*,
Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*, Lok, B.,
Duerson, M., Cohen, M. and D. Lind. “A Multi-Institutional Pilot Study to
Evaluate the Use of Virtual Patients to Teach Health Professions Students
History-Taking and Communication Skills.” Society of Medical Simulation
Meeting 2006, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1-2. (Ranked #1 out of 104 accepted)
14.
Deladisma,
A., Cohen, M., Stevens, A., Wagner, P., Lok,
B., Bernard, T., Oxendine, C., Schumacher, L., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**,
Raij, A.*, Wells, R.*, Duerson, M., Harper, J., and D. Lind. “Is There a
Difference in the Empathetic Response of Health Professions to Standardize
Patients and Virtual Patients?” Association of Surgical Education 2006.
(Clinical Research Award 2nd
place, same as ASE abstract)
15.
Stevens,
A., Cohen, M., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*, Wells, R.*, Oxendine,
C., Wagner, P., Bernard, T., Cendan, J., Duerson, M., Pauly, R., Lok, B., and D. Lind, “Implementing a
Virtual Patient (VP) into the Medical School Curriculum at the University of
Florida (UF) “ Southern Group on Education Affairs 2006.
16.
Stevens,
A., Hernandez, J., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*,
17.
Babu, S.***,
Zanbaka, C.***, Jackson, J., Chung, T., Lok,
B., Shin, M., and L. Hodges. Virtual
Human Physiotherapist Framework for Personalized Training and Rehabilitation
(poster). Graphics Interface 2005,
18.
Stevens,
A., Hernandez, J., Johnsen, K.*, Dickerson, R.**, Raij, A.*,
Dissertation
Lok, B.
(2002). Interacting
with Dynamic Real Objects in Virtual Environments. Ph.D.
Dissertation, Department of Computer Science,
· Steering Committee:
o IEEE Virtual Reality (2009-present)
· Program Co-Chair:
o IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 (Boston, MA)
o ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2009 (Kyoto, Japan)
o GameOn North America ’07 (Gainesville, FL)
o Human-Computer Interaction Advances in Modeling and Simulation - Society for Computer Simulation Western Multiconference 2005 (New Orleans, LA)
· Program Committee:
o IEEE Virtual Reality (2003-2010)
o IEEE ISMAR (2004-2006, 2008-2009)
o International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA) (2009-2010)
o ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (2007-2010)
o INTUITION Workshop & Conference on Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments (2007-2009)
o Visual Learning Conference (2007-2009)
o Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (2007)
o International Symposium on Visual Computing (2007-2009)
· Panels Chair: IEEE Virtual Reality 2007
· Videos Chair: IEEE Virtual Reality 2009
· Posters Chair: IEEE ISMAR 2006, ACM VRST 2007, IEEE Virtual Reality 2010
· Tutorials Chair: IEEE Virtual Reality 2006
· Session Chair: IEEE Virtual Reality (2007-2004), WMC SIMCHI 2005
· Best Paper Award Committee: IEEE Virtual Reality (2004-2005)
· Conference Reviewer: (In addition to the above conferences), SIGGRAPH (2008), Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, IEEE Visualization, Pacific Graphics
· Journal Reviewer:
o Journal on Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
o Journal on Graphics Tools
o IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics and Visualization
o International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (2008, 2009)
o Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (2008)
·
Book
Reviewer: McGraw-Hill Publishing,
· Proposal Review Panels: National Science Foundation (2004, 2007 twice, 2008, 2009)
· Invited Panels:
o Avatar/Virtual Human Workshop – Department of Defense, Marina Del Ray, California, April, 2009. (One of two groups invited from academia)
o Virtual Worlds and Virtual Humans – France-US Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Science, Roscoff, France, November, 2008
o OSCEs and Virtual Patient Simulations in Pharmacy Education: International Experiences and Research Findings – 2008 Joint American Association on College of Pharmacy/ Association of Faculties of Pharmacy in Canada Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 22, 2008.
o Medical
and Healthcare Simulation Future Mapping Session – National
o User Studies in VR: What Can We Learn From Them and What Are They Good For? - IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, March, 2008
o Student Panel: Building the Future of and a Career in VR - IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, March 2007
o VR Support of Clinical Applications: Collaboration, Politics, & Ethics - IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, March, 2007
o Bridging Simulation and HCI – SIMCHI ‘05, January 2006
Spring 2010: Human Computer
Interaction
Spring 2009: Virtual
Environments (CAP6930/4930) (7 Undergrad/Grad)
Fall 2008: Human Computer
Interaction (CAP6930/4930) (37 Undergrad/Grad)
Spring 2008: Computational
Structures in Computer Graphics (CAP4730), (38 Undergraduates)
Fall 2007: Virtual
Environments (4 university course) (CAP6930/4930) (4
Undergrad/Grad)
Fall 2007: Human Computer
Interaction (CAP6930/4930) (15 Undergrad/Grad)
Spring 2007: Advanced
Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments (CAP6930/4930) (5
Grad)
Fall 2006: Human Computer
Interaction (CAP6930/4930) (9 Grad)
Spring 2006: Computational
Structures in Computer Graphics (CAP4730), (46 Undergraduates)
Fall 2005: Design and
Creation of Virtual Environments (CIS6930/4930), (19
Undergrad/Grad)
Spring 2005: Computational
Structures in Computer Graphics (CAP4730), (51 Undergraduates)
Fall 2004: Human Computer
Interaction (CAP6930/4930), (21 Undergrad/Grad)
Spring 2004: Computational
Structures in Computer Graphics (CAP4730), (55 Undergraduates)
Fall 2003: Design and Creation of Virtual Environments (CIS6930/4930), (19 Undergrad/Grad)
Spring 2003: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (ITCS2215), (40 Undergraduates)
Fall 2000: Introduction to Computer Graphics (COMP136), (12 Undergrad/Grad)
September 2009 – September 2011 – Consultant, SimCoach, University of Southern California (ICT)
Invited
Short Course
Virtual Environments, Jaypee Institute of
Information Technology,
Invited
Talks
2008
Kavli
France-US Frontiers of Science Symposium, National Academy of Science,
“Immersive Virtual Humans for Interpersonal Skills Training”, Roscoff, France,
(November)
Northwestern University, “Immersive Virtual Humans for
Interpersonal Skills Training” (July)
*Simulation
Faculty Learning Community Seminars, “Immersive Virtual Humans for
Interpersonal Skills Training” (June)
Virtual
Realities Dagstuhl Seminar, Schloss Dagstuhl (
2007
Department
Seminar,
+Education Grand Rounds,
Invited
Lecture Series,
Department
of Computer Science Lecture Series,
+Department of Computer Science Lecture
Series,
*First
Fridays Lecture Series, Sigma Xi Honor Society, “Virtual Humans for
Interpersonal Skills Training” (September)
+
*Pain
Research Forum, Department of Health and Human Performance, “Virtual Humans
Research” (April)
*Cognitive
Forum, Department of Psychology, “Virtual Humans Research” (April)
2005
Graduate Computer Science Colloquium Series,
“Natural Interaction with Virtual Characters and Environment”,
Computer Science Colloquium Series, “Natural
Interaction with Virtual Characters and Environment”,
+Computer Science Colloquium Series,
“Natural Interaction with Virtual Characters and Environment”,
*Geriatric Education Group, “Virtual Interactive Patients” (March)
*Association of Digital Art and Media, “Interactive Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Virtual Reality and Digital Arts and Sciences” (March)
Vision Imaging and Virtual Environments Research
Group,
2004
Virginia Tech Virtual Environments Research
Group,
*
*Center for Learning and Simulation, “Immersive Virtual Characters for Educating Medical Communication Skills,” (October)
*Introduction to Digital Arts and Science Course, “Interactive Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, and Virtual Reality and Digital Arts and Sciences” (October)
*Center for Neurological Science, “Limb Rehabilitation using Virtual Humans” (June)
*Medical Educational Grand Rounds, “Virtual Characters in Medical Education” (September)
*
Center for Information Security,
+
2003
Human-Interface Laboratory,
*G2V2,
+- Financially supported invited talks,
*-
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Dr. Frederick
P. Brooks Jr. Sitterson Hall,
CB #3175 Department of
Computer Science (919) 962-1931 brooks@cs.unc.edu, http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks Kenan Professor
of Computer Science, 1999 Turing Award Winner, Ph.D. Advisor Dr. Larry F.
Hodges School of Computing 104 McAdams Hall Clemson, SC 29634 (864) 656-7552 lfh@clemson.edu http://people.clemson.edu/~lfh hf Flagship
Director of the School of Computing, Post-Doctoral Advisor. Dr. Sartaj
Sahni CSE 301 Department of
Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering (352) 392-1527 sahni@cise.ufl.edu, http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sahni Distinguished Professor
and Chair of CISE, Department Chair. |