[4eyes] Tibor Goldschwendt's M.S. Defense tomorrow (Mon), 10:00am

[Tobias Hollerer]

Hi everybody -

Tibor Goldschwendt, who did his MS research at the Four Eyes Lab and 
with the Allosphere Research Group, will defend his MS thesis 
presentation tomorrow, Monday, May 16th. His M.S. is with the 
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich, Germany, but he will do 
his defense here at UCSB since he did the research here and since his 
LMU supervisor, Prof. Andreas Butz, is also currently here on a 
Sabbatical visit.

Date: Monday, May 16th
Time: 10:00am -11:00am
Place: 3001 Elings Hall (above MAT conference room)

Due course of this thesis AlloStreamer framework has been designed, 
implemented
and applied to a user study. AlloStreamer allows the full surround 
simulation of mixed
reality in the AlloSphere, a spherical display of the University of 
California, Santa Barbara. Allo-
Streamer, thus, contributes to the simulation of mixed reality in a 
virtual world, which resembles
the intended real world usage environment as close as possible. In the 
user study AlloStreamer has
been employed to examine the transfer of mixed reality training. More 
specifically, the user study
addressed the question, in which virtual reality the training of 
firefighters to deal with bushfires is
most effective. The user studies considered three training scenarios, 
which differed in the applied
field of regard: (i) a circular 60° representation, (ii) a rectangular 
representation with 240° × 60°
and (ii) a full surround representation. The user study has shown that 
the training is less effective
the more restricted is the field of regard. The results of the user 
study suggest that this kind of
training necessitates a field of regard as complete as possible.

A demonstration of the implemented system will be given in the 
AlloSphere after the thesis presentation.

Everyone welcome!



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

holl at cs.ucsb.edu, Office: (805)284-9395, Fax: (805)893-8553