1st Workshop on Immersive Volumetric Interaction (WIVI 2013)

March 16, 2013

1:00pm-5:00pm

at IEEE Virtual Reality 2013, Orlando, FL, USA

ORGANIZERS

Amy Banic (University of Wyoming)

Patrick O’Leary (Kitware, Inc.)

Zachary Wartell (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

For more information please contact the organizers at:

wivi2013organizers [at] googlegroups.com

BIOGRAPHIES

BIO: Amy Ulinski Banic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Wyoming and holds a joint appointment at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES). She is the founder and director of the 3D Interaction and Agents (3DIA) research lab at the University of Wyoming. Her research focus is on 3D User Interfaces for Virtual Environments, Immersive Visualizations, and Virtual Humans, primarily in bimanual and multi-modal interaction. Dr. Banic received her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2008, and B.S. in CS and B.A. in Art from Duquesne University in 2003. She held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship position in the Virtual Environments Group at Clemson University, School of Computing.

Patrick O’Leary, Kitware, Inc.
Kitware, Inc. | 28 Corporate Drive| Clifton Park | New York | 12065
patrick.oleary [at] kitware.com

BIO: Dr. O'Leary completed a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Wyoming under the direction of Dr. Myron B. Allen III in 1999. His dissertation involved stochastic modeling of groundwater contaminant transport entitled "Mathematical Modeling of Variably Absorbing Contaminants in Porous Media." He then served in a postdoctoral position at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, under the supervision of Dr. Richard E. Ewing. Currently, Dr. O'Leary is the Assistant Director of Scientific Computing for Kitware, Inc. His research interests include high performance computing (HPC), numerical analysis, finite elements and visualization.

BIO: Zachary Wartell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte). He is the Associate Director of The Charlotte Visualization Center. Dr. Wartell received his Ph.D. from the College of Computing at the Georgia
Institute of Technology in 2001. He worked for several years at the Human Interface Technology Center at NCR. Dr. Wartell’s research interests include 3D visualization and 3D graphics and advanced user interfaces including virtual and mixed reality interfaces and multi-touch displays. A common thread through his research has been 2D and 3D geo-spatial interactive visualizations and stereoscopic display systems. His recent collaborative projects have broadened to visual analytics. Zachary’s research has been funded by research grants and contracts from NSF, ARO and DHS and various state agencies.

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