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Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for going over 18,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Kider, Dr. Maria Redmon, Dr. LaViola, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, and Dr. Lori Walters for having their paper, "Evaluating Multilingual User Interfaces for AR+BIM Construction Training", conditionally accepted to ACM SUI 2026.

Congratulations to Jacob Belga, Dr. Ryan McKendrick, Molly Kluck, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring Effects of Physical and Cognitive Demands: Simulating AR-based Real-world Situations for Procedural Tasking in UH-60 Helicopters", conditionally accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2026.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola who will be inducted into the ACM CHI Academy at the ACM SIGCHI 2026 conference in April.

Congratulations to Jacob Belga, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Effects of Virtual Reality System Fidelity on Presence using the Fidelity-based Presence Scale", accepted to ACM CHI 2026.

Congratulations to Matt Gottsacker, Yohan Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Hiroshi Furuya, Jasmine Joyce DeGuzman, Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "From One World to Another: Interfaces for Efficiently Transitioning Between Virtual Environments", accepted to ACM CHI 2026.

Congratulations to Akashdeep Chakraborty and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "From Narrative to Numbers: Evaluating Survey Questionnaires with Large Language Models", accepted to ACM IUI 2026.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an NSF grant, "MetaSim: Developing and Assessing Metacognitive Skills using Simulated Learners during Complex Problem Solving in an Interactive Learning Environment". This is a joint project with Dr. Roger Azevedo (PI).

Congratulations to Matt Gottsacker, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Dr. Bruder, Dr. LaViola, and Dr. Welch for having their workshop paper, "XR-First Design for Productivity: A Conceptual Framework for Enabling Efficient Task Switching in XR", accepted to IEEE ISMAR Adjunct 2025.

Congratulations to Xinyu Hu, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "MAGIC: A Method for Analyzing the Grammar of Incomplete Cues", accepted to IEEE ISMAR 2025.

Congratulations to Jacob Belga, Dr. Richard Skarbez, Yahya Hmaiti, Eric Chen, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "The Fidelity-based Presence Scale (FPS): Modeling the Effects of Fidelity on Sense of Presence", selected to receive an ACM SIGCHI Best Paper Award (top 1% of all submissions to CHI 2025).

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being inducted into the IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being invited to attend Dagstuhl Seminar 25031 - Addressing Future Challenges of Telemedicine Applications.

Congratulations to Mykola Maslych, Dr. Difeng Yu, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Yahya Hmaiti, Esteban Segarra Martinez, Dominic Simon, Dr. Eugene Taranta, Dr. Joanna Bergström, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "From Research to Practice: Survey and Taxonomy of Object Selection in Consumer VR Applications", accepted to ISMAR 2024.

Congratulations to Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Ryan Ghamandi, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Visual Perceptual Confidence: Exploring Discrepancies Between Self-reported and Actual Distance Perception In Virtual Reality", accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics special issue for ISMAR 2024.

Congratulations to Wanyea Barbel for successfully defending his master's thesis, "Neurogaze in Virtual Reality: Assessing an EEG and Eye Tracking Interface Against Traditional Virtual Reality Input Devices".

Congratulations to Ryan Ghamandi, Dr. Ravi Kattoju, Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Dr. Eugene Taranta, Dr. McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper "Unlocking Understanding: An Investigation of Multimodal Communication in Virtual Reality Collaboration", accepted to ACM CHI 2024.

Congratulations to John Sermarini, Dr. Rob Michlowitz, Dr. Roger Acevedo, Dr. Lori Walters, Dr. Joe Kider, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring Augmented Reality's Role in Enhancing Spatial Perception for Building Facade Retrofit Design for Non-experts", accepted to the IEEE Virtual Reality 2024.

Congratulations to Yahya Hmaiti, Mykola Maslych, Dr. Eugene Taranta, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "An Exploration of the Effect of Head-Centric Rest Frames On Egocentric Distance Judgments in VR" accepted to ISMAR 2023.

Congratulations to Ryan Ghamandi, Yahya Hmaiti, Tam Nguyen, Amirpouya Ghasemaghaei, Dr. Ravi Kattoju, Dr. Eugene Taranta, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "What And How Together: A Taxonomy On Collaborative Human-Centered XR Tasks", accepted to ISMAR 2023.

Congratulations to Yahya Hmaiti for successfully defending his Honors in the Major thesis, "The Effects of Head-Centric Rest Frames on Egocentric Distance Perception in Virtual Reality".

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for reaching an h-index of 50 according to Google Scholar.

Congratulations to John Sermarini, Dr. Rob Michlowitz, Dr. Roger Acevedo, Dr. Lori Walters, Dr. Joe Kider, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Investigating the Impact of Augmented Reality and BIM on Retrofitting Training for Non-experts", accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics special issue for ISMAR 2023.

Congratulations to Mykola Maslych, Yahya Hmaiti, Ryan Ghamandi, Paige Leber, Dr. Ravi Kattoju, Jacob Belga, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Toward Intuitive Acquisition of Occluded VR Objects Through an Interactive Disocclusion Mini-map" accepted to IEEE Virtual Reality 2023.

Congratulations to Mykola Maslych, Dr. Eugene Taranta, Mostafa Aldilati, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Effective 2D Stroke-Based Gesture Augmentation for RNNs", accepted to ACM CHI 2023.

Congratulations to Dr. Ravi Kattoju, Ryan Ghamandi, Dr. Eugene Taranta, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Automatic Improper Loading Posture Detection and Correction Utilizing Electrical Muscle Stimulation", accepted to ACM CHI 2023.

Congratulations to Dr. Andres Vargas for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "Authoring Tools for Augmented Reality Scenario Based Training Experiences".

Congratulations to Jacob Belga, Tiffany Do, Ryan Ghamandi, Dr. McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Carousel: Improving the Accuracy of Virtual Reality Assessments for Inspection Training Tasks", accepted to the 2022 ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) conference.

Congratulations to Dr. Sina Masnadi for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "Distance Perception Through Head Mounted Displays".

Congratulations to Dr. Ravikiran Kattoju for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "Automatic Posture Correction Utilizing Electrical Muscle Stimulation".

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Pfeil for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "Balancing User Experience for Mobile One-to-One Interpersonal Telepresence".

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Research Incentive Award for 2022.

Congratulations to Sina Masnadi, Kevin Pfeil, JV Sera-Josef, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Effects of Field of View on Egocentric Distance Perception in Virtual Reality", accepted to ACM CHI 2022.

Congratulations to Ravikiran Kattoju and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Automatic Asymmetric Weight Distribution Detection and Correction Utilizing Electrical Muscle Stimulation", accepted to Graphics Interface 2022.

Congratulations to Dr. Eugene Taranta, Mykola Maslych, Ryan Ghamandi, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "The Voight-Kampff Machine for Automatic Custom Gesture Rejection Threshold Selection", accepted to ACM CHI 2022.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being inducted to the UCF Scroll and Quill Society.

Congratulations to Dr. Kate Kapalo for accepting a tenure track position at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Congratulations for Dr. LaViola for having his paper, "A Discussion of Cybersickness in Virtual Environments" cited 1000 times according to Google Scholar.

Congratulations to Dr. Mehran Maghoumi, Dr. Eugene Taranta, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "DeepNAG: Deep Non-Adversarial Gesture Generation", win an honorable mention award at ACM IUI 2021.

Congratulations to Dr. Corey Pittman for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "Evaluating Augmented Reality Tools for Physics Education."

Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil, Neeraj Chatlani, Dr. LaViola, and Dr. Wisniewski for having their paper, "Bridging the Socio-Technical Gaps in Body-worn Interpersonal Live-Streaming Telepresence through a Critical Review of the Literature", accepted to ACM CSCW 2021.

Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil, Sina Masnadi, JV Sera Josef, Jacob Belga, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Distance Perception with a Video See-Through Head-Mounted Display", accepted to ACM CHI 2021.

Congratulations to Mehran Maghoumi, Eugene Taranta, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "DeepNAG: Deep Non-Adversarial Gesture Generation", accepted to the 2021 Intelligent User Interfaces conference.

Congratulations to Dr. Katelynn Kapalo for successfully defending her PhD dissertation, "Reducing Information Overload in Situated Visualization for Firefighting: a Human Factors Evaluation of User Interface Prototypes for Displaying Pre-Incident Planning Information".

Congratulations to Dr. Eugene Taranta for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "The Dollar General: Continuous Custom Gesture Recognition Techniques at Everyday Low Prices".

Congratulations to Dr. Mehran Maghoumi for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "Deep Recurrent Networks for Gesture Recognition and Synthesis".

Congratulations to Jack Oakley for successfully defending his master's thesis, "The Effects of Gesture Presentation in Video Games".

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Corey Pittman, Mehran Maghoumi, Mykola Maslych, Yasmine Moolenaar, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Machete: Easy, Efficient, and Precise Continuous Custom Gesture Segmentation", accepted to ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI).

Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "The Effects of Gender and the Presence of Third-Party Humans on Telepresence Camera Height Preferences", accepted to the 2020 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception.

Congratulations to Tiffany Do, Dr. Ryan McMahan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "The Effects of Object Shape, Fidelity, Color, and Luminance on Depth Perception in Handheld Mobile Augmented Reality", accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2020.

Congratulations to Samuel Cosgrove for successfully defending his Master's thesis, "Navigating Immersive and Interactive VR Environments with Connected 360 degree Panoramas".

The Interactive Computing Experiences Research Cluster is pleased to announce that the computer science department is now offering a Graduate Certificate in Mixed Reality Engineering starting Fall 2020.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for reaching the 10,000 citation mark on Google Scholar.

Congratulations to Sina Masnadi, Andres Vargas, Brian Williamson, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper "AffordIt!: A Tool for Authoring Object Component Behavior in Virtual Reality", accepted to Graphics Interface 2020.

Congratulations to Irina Lediaeva and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Evaluation of Body-Referenced Graphical Menus in Virtual Environments", accepted to Graphics Interface 2020.

Congratulations to Austin Erickson, Nahal Norouzi, Dr. Kangsoo Kim, Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, Understanding The Effects of Depth Information in Shared Gaze Augmented Reality Environments, accepted as an IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics journal paper to IEEE VR 2020.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Corey Pittman, Jack Oakley, Mykola Maslych, Mehran Maghoumi and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Moving Toward an Ecologically Valid Data Collection Protocol for 2D Gestures In Video Games", accepted to ACM CHI 2020.

Congratulations to Nahal Norouzi, Austin Erickson, Dr. Kangsoo Kim, Ryan Schubert, Dr. Gerd Bruder, Dr. Greg Welch, and Dr. LaViola for winning the best paper award at ACM Spatial User Interfaces 2019 for their paper, "Effects of Shared Gaze Parameters on Visual Target Identification Task Performance in Augmented Reality".

Dr. LaViola will be giving the keynote talk at ACM Spatial User Interfaces 2019 on October 19, 2019.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an NSF grant, "Retraining Built Environment Retrofitting Problem Solving Skills with Augmented Reality". This is a joint project with Dr. Joseph Kider (PI), Dr. Lori Walters, and Dr. Roger Azevedo.

Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil, Dr. Wisniewski, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "An Analysis of User Perception Regarding Body-Worn 360◦ Camera Placements and Heights for Telepresence", accepted to the 2019 ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP 2019).

Congratulations to Andres Vargas, Seng Lee Koh, Kate Kapalo, Pat Garrity, Robert Sottilare, Mark Billinghurst, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "A Comparison of Desktop and Augmented Reality Scenario Based Training Authoring Tools", accepted to ISMAR 2019.

Congratulations to Mehran Maghoumi, Eugene Taranta, Alaleh Razmjoo and Dr. LaViola for winning first place in the Eurographics SHREC 2019 challenge on online detection of simple gestures from hand trajectories.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Seng Lee Koh, Kevin Pfeil, Corey Pittman and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Pitch Pipe: An Automatic Low-pass Filter Calibration Technique for Pointing Tasks" accepted to Graphics Interface 2019.

Congratulations to Kate Kapalo, Pamela Wisniewski and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "First in, Left Out: Technological Limitations from the Perspective of Fire Engine Companies" accepted to ISCRAM 2019.

Congratulations to Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Xinru Page, and Dr. Wisniewski for having their paper, "Risk vs. Restriction: The Tension between Providing a Sense of Normalcy and Keeping Foster Teens Safe Online", accepted to ACM CHI 2019.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named the Charles N. Millican Professor of Computer Science.

Congratulations to Dr. Seng Lee Koh for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation, "Exploring Natural User Abstractions For Shared Perceptual Manipulator Task Modeling & Recovery".

Dr. LaViola's new book, "Designing Immersive Video Games Using 3DUI Technologies", co-authored with Arun Kulshreshth is now available.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having his course "3D User Interfaces for Virtual Reality and Games: 3D Selection, Manipulation, and Spatial Navigation" accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2018. This course is being taught with Bernhard Riecke and Ernst Kruijff.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Science of Teaching and Learning award.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being promoted to Full Professor of Computer Science effective August 2018.

Congratulations to Mehran Maghoumi, Dr. LaViola, Karhik Desingh, and Odest Jenkins for having their paper, "GemSketch: Interactive Image-Guided Geometry Extraction from Point Clouds" accepted to the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). This is joint work with the University of Michigan.

Congratulations to Arup Ghosh, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Dr. Shion Guha, Dr. LaViola, and Dr. Wisniewski for having their paper, "Safety vs. Surveillance: What Teens Have to Say about Mobile Apps for Parental Control", accepted to ACM CHI 2018.

Congratulations to Arup Ghosh, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Dr. Heng Xu, Dr. Mary Beth Rosson, Dr. John Carroll and Dr. Wisniewski for having their paper "A Matter of Control or Safety? Examining Parental Use of Technical Monitoring Apps on Teens’ Mobile Devices" accepted to the ACM CHI 2018.

Congratulations to Dr. Pamela Wisniewski for being named the associate director of the ICE research cluster.

Dr. LaViola gave a talk on 3D selection and manipulation as part of the VR Interactions course at Siggraph 2017. You can view the course on line here.

Congratulations to Pooya Khloo, Mehran Maghoumi, Eugene Taranta, David Bettner, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Code Park: A New 3D Code Visualization Tool" accepted to the Fifth IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2017).

Dr. LaViola's new book, "3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice, Second Edition", co-authored with Ernst Kruijff, Ryan McMahan, Doug Bowman, and Ivan Poupyrev" is now available.

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Holderness for successfully defending her PhD Dissertation, "Exploring the Multi-Touch Interaction Design Space for 3D Virtual Objects to Support Procedural Training Tasks".

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Research Incentive Award for 2017.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Amirreza Samiei, Mehran Maghoumi, Pooya Khaloo, Corey Pittman, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Jackknife: A Reliable Recognizer with Few Samples and Many Modalities" selected to receive an ACM SIGCHI Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of all submissions to CHI 2017).

Congratulations to Kyle Martin and Dr. LaViola for winning a best paper award for "The Transreality Interaction Platform: Enabling Interaction Across Physical and Virtual Reality" at The 9th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2016).

Congratulations to Bo Kang, Dr. Pam Wisniewski, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Structured Input Improves Usability and Precision for Solving Geometry-based Algebraic Problems" accepted to ACM CHI 2017.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Amirreza Samiei, Mehran Maghoumi, Pooya Khaloo, Corey Pittman, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Jackknife: A Reliable Recognizer with Few Samples and Many Modalities" accepted to ACM CHI 2017.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an NSF National Robotics Initiative award entitled, "NRI: Collaborative Research: Sketching Geometry and Physics Informed Inference for Mobile Robot Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes". This is joint work with the University of Michigan.

Congratulations to Conner Brooks starting work at Meta.

Congratulations to Mehran Maghoumi and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Object Manipulation in Cluttered Scenes Informed by Physics and Sketching" accepted to the RSS 2016 Workshop - Geometry and Beyond: Representations, Physics, and Scene Understanding for Robotics. This is joint work with Karthik Desingh and Dr. Odest Chadwicke Jenkins from the University of Michigan and Lionel Reveret from INRIA Rhone-Alpes.

Congratulations to Dr. Jared Bott for successfully defending his PhD dissertation, "The WOZ Recognizer: A Tool For Understanding User Perceptions of Sketch-based Interfaces". Jared has started work at Meta.

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Dynamic Stereoscopic 3D Parameter Adjustment For Enhanced Depth Discrimination", selected to receive a SIGCHI Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award (top 4% of all submissions to CHI 2016).

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Dynamic Stereoscopic 3D Parameter Adjustment For Enhanced Depth Discrimination", accepted to ACM CHI 2016.

Congratulations to Corey Pittman, Eugene Taranta, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "A $-Family Friendly Approach to Prototype Selection", accepted to the 2016 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Congratulations to Bo Kang, Arun Kulshreshth, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "AnalyticalInk: An Interactive Learning Environment For Math Problem Solving", accepted to the 2016 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola's paper, The WOZ Recognizer: A Wizard of Oz Sketch Recognition System, has been published online in the ACM Digital Library in ACM Transactions of Interactive Intelligent Systems.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Andres Vargas, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, Streamlined and Accurate Gesture Recognition with Penny Pincher, accepted to Computers and Graphics.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola and Dr. Fiore for getting an Office of Naval Research grant to study visualization techniques that will improve data understanding under complexity and uncertainty.

Dr. LaViola has been named the UCF Modeling and Simulation Graduate Coordinator.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named the Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of EECS.

Congratulations to Corey Pittman for taking an internship at Microsoft Research.

Dr. LaViola gave a talk, "3D Spatial User Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future from the Virtual to the Real" at Visualization and Creativity in Immersive 3D Environments -- from Cave to YURT to inaugurate Brown University's latest large scale visualization system.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having his SIGGRAPH course, "Context Aware 3D Gesture Recognition for Games and Virtual Reality", accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2015.

Congratulations to Dr. Arun Kulshreshth for successfully defending his PhD Thesis, "Exploring 3D User Interface Technologies for Improving the Gaming Experience".

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta and Dr. LaViola for winning the Michael A. J. Sweeney Award for the best HCI student paper at the upcoming Graphics Interface 2015 conference.

Congratulations to Sergiu Veazanchin and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "DynoFighter: Exploring a Physical Activity Incentive Mechanism to Support Exergaming", accepted to Graphics Interface 2015.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Penny Pincher: A Blazing Fast, Highly Accurate $-Family Recognizer", accepted to Graphics Interface 2015.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta, Thaddeus Simmons, Dr. Rahul Sukthankar, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring the Benefits of Context in 3D Gesture Recognition for Game-Based Virtual Environments" accepted to ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems. The paper will appear in Volume 5, Issue 1 of this year.

Congratulations to Eugene Taranta and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Math Boxes: A Pen-Based User Interface for Writing Difficult Mathematical Expressions", accepted to 2015 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring 3D User Interface Technologies For Improving The Gaming Experience", accepted to ACM CHI 2015.

Dr. LaViola gave an invited talk at Duke University entitled, "Intelligent Tutoring Interfaces with Mathematical Sketching."

Congratulations to Jeff Cashion for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Intelligent Selection Techniques for Virtual Environments."

Congratulations to Salman Cheema for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Pen-Based Methods for Recognition and Animation of Handwritten Physics Solutions."

The Interactive Systems and User Experience Research Cluster has joined the Immersive Technology Alliance.

Congratulations to Andres Vargas for successfully defending his Master's thesis entitled, "SKETCHART: A Pen-Based Tool for Chart Generation and Interaction".

Dr. LaViola will be giving a short course, "Introduction to 3D Gestural Interfaces", at ACM SIGGRAPH 2014.

Congratulations to Bo Kang and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Mixed Heuristic Search for Sketch Prediction on Chemical Structure Drawing", accepted to Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling 2014.

Dr. Robert Cooksey, from the Intel Perceptual Computing Lab, gave an ISUE RCE seminar entitled, " Thinking Technology in the Age of Perceptual Computing."

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring the Usefulness of Finger-Based 3D Gesture Menu Selection", selected to receive a SIGCHI Best of CHI Honorable Mention Award (top 5% of all submission to CHI 2014).

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Reach for the Stars Award. This award honors highly successful research and creative activity at UCF.

Dr. Tim Cowan, group technical director at Electronic Arts, gave the first ISUE RCE seminar entitled, " Madden NFL: Evolution & Innovation For 25 Years."

The Interactive Systems and User Experience Lab is now known as the Interactive Systems and User Experience Research Cluster.

Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau, Jared Bott, Sarah Buchanan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Dance Enhanced: Investigating How Earning Content Through Exertion Impacts Dance Game Enjoyment" accepted to the 2014 Foundations of Digital Games Conference. This is joint work with Dr. Floyd Mueller from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Dr. LaViola has just published a review on 3D gesture recognition, entitled, "3D Gestural Interaction: The State of the Field". Check it out!

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring the Usefulness of Finger-Based 3D Gesture Menu Selection", accepted to ACM CHI 2014.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having his paper, "Altering Gameplay Behavior using Stereoscopic 3D Vision-Based Video Game Design", accepted to ACM CHI 2014. This is joint work with Jonas Schild and Maic Masuch from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Congratulations to Corey Pittman and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring Head Tracked Head Mounted Displays for First Person Robot Teleoperation", accepted to the 2014 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Congratulations to Salman Cheema, Sarah Buchanan, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "A Practical Framework for Constructing Structured Drawings", accepted to the 2014 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. This is joint work with Sumit Gulwani from Microsoft Research.

Dr. LaViola gave a talk at Arizona State University entitled, "Intelligent Tutoring Interfaces with Mathematical Sketching."

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having his paper, "The Effectiveness of an AR-based Context-Aware Assembly Support System in Object Assembly" accepted to IEEE Virtual Reality 2014. This is joint work with Andrew Miller at the University of Maryland and Kiyoshi Kiyokawa and Khuong Bui Minh at Osaka University.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named to the editorial board of IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications.

Congratulations to Sarah Buchanan, Will Holderness, Charles Floyd (from JHT, Inc.), and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Towards User-Defined Multi-Touch Gestures for 3D Objects" accepted to the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS) 2013.

Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau for successfully defending here Ph.D. dissertation entitled, "Bridging The Gap Between Fun and Fitness: Instructional Techniques and Real-World Applications for Full-Body Dance Games."

Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil for successfully defending his Master's Thesis entitled, "An Exploration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Direct Manipulation Through 3D Spatial Interaction."

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for the UCF Teaching Incentive Program award for 2013.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning the UCF Scholarship of Teaching and Learning award for 2013.

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Evaluating Performance Benefits of Head Tracking in Modern Video Games", accepted to the 2013 ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction.

Congratulations to Bo Kang, Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "User Perceptions of Drawing Logic Diagrams with Pen-Centric User Interfaces" accepted to Graphics Interface 2013.

Congratulations to Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Plugging In and Into Code Bubbles: The Code Bubbles Architecture" accepted to [Software: Practice and Experience](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN%291097-024X). This was a joint work with Dr. Steven Reiss at Brown University.

Dr. LaViola has been named an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning the 2013-2014 Deans Research Professorship Award.

Congratulations to Chris Zorn, Chad Wingrave, Miko Charbonneau, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring Minecraft as a Conduit for Increasing Interest in Programming" accepted to the 2013 Foundations of Digital Games conference.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Major Research Equipment Award. These funds will be used to buy a robotic arm and four humanoid robots.

Dr. LaViola has joined the advisory board for the Formative Assessment with Computational Technologies (FACT) research project at Arizona State University.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being awarded the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award.

Congratulations to Kevin Pfeil, Seng Lee Koh, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Exploring 3D Gesture Metaphors for Interaction with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" accepted to the 2013 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having, "Creating and Analyzing Stereoscopic 3D Game Interfaces", accepted as a full paper to ACM CHI 2013. This is joint work with Jonas Schild, Liane Bölicke, and Maic Masuch from the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named the CAE Link professor in the EECS department at UCF.

Congratulations to Salman Cheema and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "3D Gesture Classification With Linear Acceleration and Angular Velocity Sensing Devices for Video Games" accepted to the Entertainment Computing journal.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for having his paper, "Exploring the Trade-off Between Accuracy and Observational Latency in Action Recognition", accepted to the International Journal of Computer Vision (this is joint work with Dr. Marshall Tappen and his group).

Congratulations to Prince Gupta and Dr. LaViola (with Dr. Neils da Vitoria Lobo), for having their paper, "Markerless Tracking And Gesture Recognition Using Polar Correlation of Camera Optical Flow" accepted to the Machine Vision and Applications journal.

Dr. LaViola was a panelist at ACM SIGGRAPH 2012 on the future of video game motion controllers.

Dr. LaViola gave a talk at the 2012 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit entitled, " QuickDraw: Improving Drawing for Geometric Diagrams."

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure.

Dr. LaViola was interviewed for an article in New Scientist.

Dr. LaViola will be a panelist at SIGGRAPH 2012 in the panel, " The Battle for the Future of Motion-Controlled Gaming".

Congratulations to Travis Cossairt and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "SetPad: A Sketch-Based Tool For Exploring Discrete Math Set Problems", accepted to the 2012 Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning a UCF Research Incentive Award for 2012.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named an IEEE Senior Member.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an IEEE service award for co-chairing the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces in 2011 and 2012.

Congratulations to Arun Kulshreshth and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Evaluating User Performance in 3D Stereo and Motion Enabled Video Games" accepted to Foundations of Digital Games 2012.

Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having a technical demo accepted to ICSE 2012. This work was done in collaboration with Brown University.

The ISUE lab particpated in the Orlando Science Center's Otronicon and was written up in the Central Florida Future.

Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having two papers accepted to the IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 conference. These papers will be published in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having two papers accepted to the 2012 ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Congratulations to the ISUE lab for having two papers accepted to ACM CHI 2012.

Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau, Andrew Miller, and Dr. LaViola for winning the best paper award at the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology for their paper, " Teach Me to Dance: Exploring Player Experience and Performance in Full Body Dance Games".

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being named an ACM senior member.

Congratulations to Sarah Buchanan, Brandon Ochs, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "CSTutor: A Pen-Based Tutor for Data Structure Visualization," accepted to SIGCSE 2012.

Members of the ISUE Lab were featured in an article on Microsoft's Coding4Fun website!

Congratulations to Sarah Buchanan, Brandon Ochs, and Dr. LaViola for winning best poster at the 8th Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM 2011).

Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau, Andrew Miller, and Dr. LaViola for having their paper, "Teach Me to Dance: Exploring Player Experience and Performance in Full Body Dance Games" accepted to the 8th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2011).

Members of the ISUE Lab were featured in Sony's launch video for Move.me.

Congratulations to Jared Bott, Daniel Gabriele, and Dr. LaViola for having a paper accepted to Eurographics/ACM Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling (SBIM 2011). Also, congratulations to Sarah Buchanan, Brandon Ochs, and Dr. LaViola for having a poster accepted to SBIM 2011.

Dr. LaViola gave an invited talk at Microsoft Research entitled, " Towards Intelligent Tutoring with Mathematical Sketching."

Be sure to check out the ISUE Lab's Youtube channel for our latest videos.

Dr. LaViola and Dr. Daniel Keefe (University of Minnesota) will be giving a course at ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 on 3D Spatial Interaction: Applications for Art, Design, and Science.

The ISUE Lab has been selected to take part in Sony's Key Researchers Early-Product Seeding Program. The lab will be working to make innovative Sony Move applications on the PC.

Congratulations to Emiko Charbonneau and Salman Cheema who will be interning at Microsoft and Microsoft Research this summer.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola and Tad Litwiller for having their paper, " Evaluating the Benefits of 3D Stereo in Modern Video Games", accepted to ACM CHI 2011.

Congratulations to Andrew Miller as a paper he worked on, " VizWiz: nearly real-time answers to visual questions" was selected as best paper at UIST 2010!

Dr. LaViola and the IS&UE lab received a grant from US Army RDECOM to develop full body interfaces for navigation and communication in virtual environments. Chad Wingrave is the Co-PI on this project.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for winning an NSF award with Brown University entitled, "A Working Set Approach to Integrated Development Environments".

Dr. LaViola has been appointed the SAIC Faculty Fellow in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UCF.

Dr. LaViola has been named an associate editor of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

Jared Bott and Dr. LaViola's paper entitled, "A Pen-Based Tool for Visualizing Vector Mathematics" was presented at SBIM 2010.

Special thanks goes to NVIDIA Research for their equipment donation to the ISUE lab. NVIDIA donated several graphics cards and 3D Vision Kits to assist us in our 3D stereo interface research.

Dr. LaViola and Dr. Richard Marks (Sony Computer Entertainment America) will be giving a course at SIGGRAPH on July 27th on 3D User Interfaces with Video Game Motion Controllers.

Dr. LaViola wrote an article for Gamasutra on 3D interaction in video games.

Watch a video of Dr. LaViola talking about mathematical sketching.

Juliet Norton, Dr. Wingrave, and Dr. LaViola's paper entitled, " Exploring Strategies and Guidelines for Developing Full Body Video Game Interfaces" was accepted to the 2010 Foundations of Digital Games conference.

Dr. LaViola and Salman Cheema's paper entitled, " Applying Mathematical Sketching to Sketch-Based Physics Tutoring Software" was accepted to Smart Graphics 2010.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola for being awarded a UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science Distinguished Researcher Award.

Congratulations to the IS&UE lab for having a paper and a poster accepted to IEEE 3DUI 2010.

Dr. LaViola has papers accepted to both CHI 2010 and ICSE 2010 on the Code Bubbles project. This work was done in collaboration with Brown University.

Dr. LaViola and Salman Cheema's paper, entitled "Towards Intelligent Motion Inferencing In Mathematical Sketching" was accepted to IUI 2010.

Congratulations to the IS&UE Lab for having three papers accepted to IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, to be presented in March 2010.

The ISUE Lab had a busy week at SIGGRAPH. Dr. LaViola, Diane Marinkas, and Yiyan Xiong all presented papers at SBIM 2009 while Emiko Charbonneau and Paul Varcholik presented game papers at SIGGRAPH. Dr. LaViola also gave a talk on 3D user interfaces in video games at the Interaction: Interfaces, Algorithms, and Applications SIGGRAPH course.

IS&UE lab members Mike Hoffman and Tad Litwiller developed the turntable controller for the Sultans of Scratch video game created at the Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy.

Drs. LaViola and Wingrave have won a NSF Creative IT award for their proposal entitled, " Major: Enhancing Creativity and Authoring in STEM Education-Based Virtual Worlds through Concept-Oriented Design".

Dr. LaViola and the IS&UE lab received a grant from RDECOM-STC to develop prototyping tools for unobtrusive mood assessment. Chad Wingrave is the Co-PI on this project.

Jared Bott presented his paper on "Exploring 3D Gestural Interfaces for Music Creation in Video Games" at the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games.

Dr. LaViola and colleagues presented a full day course at ACM CHI 2009 entitled, " 3D User Interfaces: Design, Implementation, Usability."

Two IS&UE lab papers on 3D Spatial Interfaces in Video Games have been accepted to Sandbox 2009: ACM SIGGRAPH Video Game Proceedings.

Congratulations to Dr. LaViola on winning a prestigious NSF Career Award for his proposal on mathematical sketching.

Two IS&UE lab papers on 3D Spatial Interfaces in Video Games have been accepted to the Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games.

Dr. LaViola and Brian Williamson's paper entitled, " GestureBar: Improving the Approachability of Gesture-based Interfaces" was accepted to CHI 2009. This was joint work with the Microsoft Center for Research in Pen-Centric Computing.

Dr. LaViola's presented his paper entitled, " Online Recognition of Handwritten Mathematical Expressions with Support for Matrices" at the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Tampa, Florida. This was joint work with the Microsoft Center for Research in Pen-Centric Computing.

Dr. LaViola gave an invited colloquium on "3D Spatial Interfaces and Video Games" at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. LaViola's paper entitled "MathPaper: Mathematical Sketching with Fluid Support for Interactive Computation" was awarded the best paper at the 9th International Symposium on Smart Graphics in Rennes, France. This was joint work with the Microsoft Center for Research in Pen-Centric Computing.

The IS&UE's lab work on 3D spatial interfaces for video games has been featured on Microsoft's Channel 10. Check out Laura Foy's interview.

Dr. LaViola and the IS&UE Lab received grants from IARPA to work on the Analyst Workstation of the Future and from SAIC to work on DARPA's Deep Green project.

Over the past month, the IS&UE Lab has presented four paper at three different conferences including Graphics Interface 2008, the 2008 Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, and the 2008 Eurographics Workshop on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling.

Dr. LaViola and Paul Varcholik have been invited to the 2008 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. They will be giving demos of the IS&UE Lab's 3DUI gaming work.

Dr. LaViola will be giving a Birds of a Feather Session on 3D Spatial Interfaces in Video Games at SIGGRAPH 2008 in Los Angeles. If you are going to SIGGRAPH and would like to particiate, contact him for more information.