CHCI Research Labs
 | 3D Interaction Group URL: http://research.cs.vt.edu/3di/index.html 3DI stands for "three-dimensional interaction". Our research spans 3D user interfaces, interaction techniques, and applications, especially in the area of Virtual Environments (VE). Interaction in three dimensions is not well-understood, but is crucial to highly interactive VE applications like immersive education, scientific visualization, and immersive design. The mission of our lab is to perform both basic and applied research in three-dimensional (3D) interaction and VE technology, and to develop applications of VEs in a wide variety of domains. |
 | Animation and Gaming Research Lab Contact: Yong Cao <yongcao@cs.vt.edu> |
| Design of Interactive Systems Studio Contact: Steve Harrison <srh@vt.edu> | |
 | Gigapixel Display Laboratory URL: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/gigapixel/ The GigaPixel Display Laboratory is hosted by Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science and the Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI). This NSF-funded facility contains reconfigurable ultra-high resolution displays, totaling approximately 200 million pixels, one of the highest resolutions in the world. |
 | Laboratory for Information Visualization and Evaluation URL: http://infovis.cs.vt.edu/ The LIVE lab studies the design, development, and evaluation of information visualizations. Information visualizations are interactive visual representation of abstract data that enable people to effectively explore and understand large quantities of complex information. |
 | Personal Information Management Lab URL: http://perez.cs.vt.edu/pim The PIM lab studies how individuals use technology to organize and use their day to day information needs. The goal is to explore how to best make use of our limited personal resources (time, money, energy, attention) to improve the quality of our lives. This often translate to better productivity but can simply mean more satisfaction. An area of interest is how advances in PIM research could informs education programs that focus on information literacy. We are particularly interested in how people use many devices in their day to day activities. To support that, we have available for research desktops, laptops, web servers, large displays, iPods, PDAs, RFIDs, phone system with support for VoiceXML, and many other technologies. |
| Pragmatics of Educational/Emotional Computing (POET) Research Lab Contact: Deborah Tatar <dtatar@vt.edu> The POET lab engages in research of real-world technology projects that promote equity and excellence in K-12 math and science classrooms and university engineering education, explores systems (especially Tuple Space-based) to support complex human coordination, lies in the realms of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and computer-supported cooperative learning (CSCL), evaluates handheld, tablet, and large-screen computing, and contributes to the issues of social attention and technology. | |
 | Social Computing Lab URL: http://java.cs.vt.edu/public/chci/site/socialcomputing.html Social computing is the study of the social use and impact of information technology, and the study of information technology designed specifically for social purposes, such as interpersonal and group communication, discussion, and social interaction (e.g., electronic mail, instant messenger, discussion tools, blogging, and social websites, such as Friendster, Facebook, and MySpace). It draws on multiple disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, political science, communication studies, and computer science. |
| Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory URL: http://vislab.cs.vt.edu/ The Vision Interfaces and Systems Laboratory is engaged in research along three themes: advanced human computer interaction, computer vision, and medical imaging. Ongoing projects in VISLab are: multimodal human-computer interaction, multimodal meeting analysis of planning meetings, conversational interaction, vision-based hand gesture interaction; vision-based gaze tracking, multimedia databases; automated segmentation of video; registration of aerial video/photography from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, extraction of the neurovascular tree from multimodal medical images; and, three-dimensional alignment of multimodal medical images. The fundamental vision of the VISLab is that Computer Science and Engineering, in general, and HCI and Computer Vision, in particular, have an important role to play in a vast array of arts and sciences. Most of the research in the VISLab is collaborative with other fields. In return, the real challenges of these real projects enrich and focus our research. | |
| Visual Computing Lab URL: http://www.arc.vt.edu |