• Research Experience for Undergraduates
HCI Graduate Program
1620 Howe Hall
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-2089
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• Virtual Reality Applications Center
• The HCI program is well represented in the list of award finalists announced by the Technology Association of Iowa. Faculty members Debra Satterfield and Eve Wurtele, PhD candidate Sondra Ashmore, and MS student Bethany Juhnke are all finalists.
posted: November 03, 2011
• The HCI Graduate Program will host their annual HCI Recruiting Open House on Friday, February 24, 2012 from 10 am to 5 pm in Howe Hall. Please contact Pam Shill if you would like to attend.
posted: November 01, 2011
• Meta!Blast wins Honorable Mention in the 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge sposored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
— Science: 02/03/2012
• Eve Syrkin Wurtele decided the best way to get the attention of the science-deprived, gamer generation is to take the information out of a textbook and put it in a medium that kids crave - video games. Eve and her team developed Meta!Blast.
— ISU News Service: 02/02/2012
• Claver Hategekimana, HCI PhD, Fall 2008, designs a solar kit to light African homes and brighten lives
— The Wenatchee World: 10/27/2011
• Iowa State alumna Daniela Faas has had an enthralling journey that began with a move from Germany to the US as a teen, beginning what she calls her own version of the “American Dream.”
— INNOVATEonline: 09/22/2011
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Student Performance (4:00pm)
Excerpts from: Assisted Living 2
Assisted Living 2 is a collaboration between Valerie Williams, director of the Co'Motion Dance Company, and Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, Associate Professor in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Iowa State University. Dancers wear a network of wireless sensors to interact with graphics, music, and each other to create a unique dance performance in which all elements are dynamic and ever-changing. The control the dancers have over the music and the visuals through the sensors reflects how all the different performance components assist each other to create a greater experience for dancers and audience. Taking advantage of the interactive bond between dancers and their supporting environment, the performance will include an improvisation segment in which live musicians and dancers will create a new visual space for the audience. The audience will be wearing 3D stereo glasses as the visuals will be projected with depth to create the illusion of virtual props around the dancers.
Assisted Living 2 team:
Co'Motion Dance Theater: Valerie Williams, Elizabeth Williams, Ben Rethmeier
Virtual Reality Applications Center: Carolina Cruz-Neira, Yifei Wang, Lew Hill, Jonathan Gandrud, Romeu Bessa
Special thanks: Kevin Teske and Glen Galvin