National Science Foundation
IMSC Site Visit, June 8 and 9, 2004
IMSC Scientific Advisory Board
June 7 and 8, 2004
Jerry Bauck (left) of Cooper Bauck Corp., a member of the National Science Foundation site visit team, talks with Gerry Kim, a visiting Research Scholar, about IMSC's Distributed Immersive Performance project, which is developing a system for musicians to play together over the Internet.
Warren Sterling of IMSC industry member NCR tries on IMSC's virtual reality headset as Prof. Skip Rizzo describes "The Virtual Classroom," a system to assist children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Prof. Isaac Cohen (left) makes a point about IMSC's Communication Vision project to Juan Felipe Vallejo, an MBA student in USC's Marshall School of Business.
Prof. Helen Boussalis of California State University, Los Angeles, tries out the CyberGrasp, a haptics glove that provides force feedback for the touching of objects over the Internet, as Prof. Anastasios Chassiakos of California State University, Long Beach, looks on.
Dale von Haase of IMSC industry member Lockheed Martin uses a Phantom haptic interface to navigate in IMSC's haptic earthquake project.
Prof. Arthur Graesser (left) of the University of Memphis, a member of the National Science Foundation site visit team, discusses the poster, "Progressive Transmission of Textured Graphic Models over IP Networks," with Jingliang Peng, a Ph.D. student.
Prof. Cyrus Shahabi (third from left) and Mehdi Sharifzadeh (fourth from left), a PhD student in computer science, discuss IMSC's Adaptive Immersive Data Analyzer (AIDA) with Mark George (second from left) of IMSC industry member Lockheed Martin and Dr. Isaac Maya, IMSC's Director of Industry and Technology Transfer Programs. AIDA is a system for querying and analyzing the data generated by an immersive environment.