Chris Harding, Assistant Professor
Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences

Virtual Reality Application Center (VRAC)
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Program
Iowa State University
2274 Howe Hall, Rm 2635, Ames, IA, 50011
tel.: 515-294-4868
email: charding (at) iastate (dot) edu
Publications (since 2000)
  • Newcomb, M.C. & Harding, C. (2006) A Multi-Modal Interface for Road Planning using Vision, Haptics and Sound. International Symposium of Visual Computing (ISVC) 2006, published as: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 4292, part 2, pp. 417- 426.
  • Harding, C. (2005) Multi-Modal Interfaces - Challenges and Opportunities. 9th International Conference on Information Visualisation, IV 2005, pp. 51.
  • Harding, C. (2005) Multi-Modal Virtual Environments - A Geoscience Perspective. 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 9.
  • Harding, C. & Newcomb, M.C. (2004) Supporting Interactive Data Exploration for GIS Planning Tasks with a Multi-modal Virtual Environment,. Third IEEE Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments (HAVE) 2004, pp. 81-86.
  • Harding, C. (2004) Modeling of geoscience data in a multi-sensory Virtual Environment. IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), 6, pp. 89-92.
  • Harding, C. et al. (2002) A multi-sensory system for the investigation of geoscientific data. Computers & Graphics, Special Issue on Data Visualization, 26, pp. 259-269.
  • Harding, C. et al. (2001) A Case Study in Multi-Sensory Investigation of Geoscientific Data. Joint Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, pp. 34-42.
  • Harding, C., Kakadiaris, I.A. & Loftin, R.B. (2000) Multi-sensory data investigation: Adding touch and sound to geoscientific visualization and modeling. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Convention, pp. 67-72.
  • Harding, C., Kakadiaris, I.A. & Loftin, R.B. (2000) A Multimodal User Interface for Geoscientific Data Investigation. In Advances in Multimodal Interfaces - ICMI 2000, Third International Conference, Beijing, China, October 14-16, 2000, Proceedings, (Eds, Tan, T., Shi, Y. & Gao, W.) Springer Verlag, pp. 615-623.
  • Harding, C., Loftin, R.B. & Anderson, A. (2000) Visualization and modeling of geoscientific data on the Interactive Workbench. The Leading Edge, 19, pp. 506-511.
  • Harding, C., Loftin, R.B. & Casey, J.F. (2000) Multi-modal investigation of geoscientific data - adding touch and sound to 3-D visualization of surface based data. Society of Exploration Geophysists (SEG), Technical Program of the 70th Annual Meeting, pp. 685-688.
  • Harding, C. et al. (2000) Using Vision, Touch and Sound Geoscientific Investigation. OffShore Magazine, 60, pp. 64-66.