4930/6930, Section
5538/5341
Virtual Environments
Spring 2009
Leigh Hall 0142
Professor:
Benjamin Lok
CSE 342,
392-1492, lok@cise.ufl.edu
Course
Hours:
Tuesday, 9th
period, 4:05-4:55 PM
Thursday, 9
10th periods, 4:05-6 PM
Office
Hours:
Tuesday, 8th
period
Thursday,
8th period
Available by
appointment (email)
January
Week
1: 6th Course Introduction,
Introduction
to Virtual Environments, 8th Introduction
to Virtual Environments, 333 lab tour, Reading: Sutherland
papers (Due 1/22)
Week
2: 13th Tracking,15th
Tracking, Project
1 Assigned, Reading: Brooks papers (Due 1/29)
Week
3: 20th Tracking, 22nd Tracking (quiz1 on Sutherland), Reading: No Silver Bullet paper (Due 2/5)
Week
4: 27th 3D from 2D
images, 29th 3D
from 2D images (quiz2 on Brooks), Reading: Cave
paper (Due 2/19)
February
Week
5: 3rd 3D from 2D
images, 5th 3D
from 2D images (quiz3 on No Silver Bullet), Reading: UNC
Pit paper (Due 2/26)
Week
6: 10th 3D from 2D
images, 12th Project 1
Presentations
Week
7: 17th Project 1
Presentations, Project 2 Assigned , 19th Interfaces (quiz4 on Cave)
Week
8: 24th Interfaces, 26th
Interfaces (quiz5 on UNC Pit), Reading: Usoh-Presence Questionnaires paper (Due 3/19)
March
Week
9: 3rd NO CLASS (work on project 2), 6th 2 PM Project
2 Presentations, Project 3 Assigned, Reading: Touring Machine paper (Due 3/26)
Week
10: SPRING BREK
Week
11: 17th NO CLASS (Work on project 3), 19th Presence
Week
12: 24th Presence (quiz6 on Usoh-Presence Questionnaires paper), 26th
Project 3
Phase A Demos (quiz7 on Touring Machine), Reading:
Cybertherapy (Due 4/9)
Week
13: 31st Interaction Augment &
Mixed Reality, 2nd Project
3 Presentations, Project 4 Assigned, Reading: Locomotion
paper (Due 4/16)
April
Week
14: 7th Interaction, 9th
Interaction, Mixed Reality (quiz8 on Cybertherapy)
Week
15: 14th Virtual Characters, 16th Virtual Characters (quiz9 on
Locomotion)
Week
16: 21st Project 4
Presentations
Project #1 Tracking Due: February 12th, 2009
Project #2 - Displays - Due: March 6th, 2009
Project #3 Presence
- Due: April 2nd, 2009
Project #4
Interfaces - Due: April 21st, 2009
Syllabus, Advertising Flyer for Class
Sutherland - The Ultimate Display
(original
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/online/9ig2/1/ultimate_display.html)
I. E. Sutherland, The Ultimate Display,"in
Proceedings of the IFIPS Congress, vol. 2, pp. 506-508, 1965.
Head Mounted Three Dimensional Display
I.E. Sutherland, "A Head-mounted Three-dimensional Display," in 1968
Fall Joint Computer Conference, AFIPS Conference Proceedings, vol. 33, pp.
757-764, 1968.
Brooks Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality
(original http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/RealVirtue.pdf)
Brooks, Jr., F.P., 1994: "Is There Any Real Virtue in Virtual Reality?" Public lecture co-sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society, November 30, London.
What's Real About Virtual Reality
(original http://www.cs.unc.edu/~brooks/WhatsReal.pdf)
Brooks,Jr., F.P., 1999: "What's Real About Virtual Reality?" IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,19, 6:16-27.
(original http://www.evl.uic.edu/EVL/RESEARCH/PAPERS/CRUZ/sig93.paper.html)
UNC Pit [LOCOMOTION] Walking > Walking-in-Place > Flying, in Virtual Environments (Usoh)
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~eve/papers/EVEAuthored/1999-SIGGRAPH-Usoh.pdf
Presence
Questionnaires [PRESENCE] Using Presence Questionnaires
in Reality (Usoh)
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.slater/Papers/questionnaire-paper.pdf
Martin Usoh, Ernest Catena, Sima Arman, and Mel Slater. Using Presence Questionnaires in Reality. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 9, no. 5, 2000, pp. 497-503.
Original file: http://monet.cs.columbia.edu/publications/iswc97.pdf
Cybertherapy - [APPLICATION] Treating Psychological and Physical Disorders with VR
(original: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/papers/travel.pdf)
[AVATARS] Body Centred Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments (Slater)
(original: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/m.slater/Papers/bci.pdf)
[LOCOMOTION] Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: An Introduction
(original: http://www.movesinstitute.org/darken/publications/SPATNAV1.pdf)
[LOCOMOTION] Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding in Large-Scale Virtual Spaces: Part 2
(original: http://www.movesinstitute.org/darken/publications/SPATNAV2.pdf)
(original: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/papers/grab.pdf)
[INTERACTION ] Virtual Reality on a WIM: Interactive Worlds in Miniature
(original: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~stage3/publications/95/conferences/chi/paper.html)
[AVATARS] The Role of Virtual Humans in Virtual Environment Technology and Interfaces (Thalmann)
(original: http://ligwww.epfl.ch/~thalmann/papers.dir/EU.NSF.PDF)
[APPLICATION] Nanomanipulator (Taylor)
[LOCOMOTION] Redirected Walking (Razzaque)
(original: http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/eve/rdw/redirected_walking_in_place_EGVE_2002.pdf)