[4eyes] CS290I Course on Immersion in Virtual and Augmented Reality

[Tobias Hollerer]

CS and MAT will be offering a course on Immersion in Virtual
and Augmented Reality, this winter, taught by Prof. Doug Bowman.
The times are TTh 11-1.  Please see Prof. Bowman's message
below.

I have been told that the course is now available for
registration as CS290I on GOLD as of today, and we are in
the process of getting it cross-listed at MAT.

I hope you'll consider taking it.
Thanks & happy holiday,

	Tobias


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As some of you already know, I will be teaching a graduate course on the 
topic of "immersion" in the winter quarter. The course is now available 
for registration, and will be held on Tuesday/Thursday from 11:00-12:50. 
The theme of the course is to explore the already-known and 
yet-to-be-discovered benefits of increasing immersion (i.e., the level 
of sensory fidelity) in virtual reality and augmented reality systems. 
There will be a project, hopefully based in the AlloSphere, exploring 
whether high-immersion systems can be used to improve typical 
multitasking situations in office work, and perhaps another project 
topic depending on students' interests. We will also attempt to build up 
a comprehensive picture of what we already know about the effects of 
immersion from the literature - something that is sorely needed by the 
research community.

A title and catalog description of the class are given below. I hope you 
will consider signing up for the course.

--Doug Bowman



Immersion in Virtual and Augmented Reality

Students will study and further develop a theory of immersion - 
sensory fidelity - as it relates to virtual reality (VR) and  augmented 
  reality (AR) technologies. The first segment of the course will allow 
  students to build a comprehensive picture of the current state of 
knowledge on the effects of immersion, through a review of the 
literature and the development of a knowledge base of prior 
experiments. In the second half of the course, students will work 
together on one or more novel user studies using the UCSB AlloSphere to 
investigate the effects of immersion on user tasks in VR/AR systems.

-- 
Doug Bowman           (540) 231-2058 (voice)
Associate Professor  bowman at vt.edu (email)
Computer Science     http://people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/
Virginia Tech              http://www.3dui.org

-- 
Tobias Hollerer
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

holl at cs.ucsb.edu, Office: (805)893-8759,  Fax: (805)893-8553