<div dir="ltr">looks super interesting and relevant  to the lab!<div>cheers<br><div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mat-announce@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu">mat-announce@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 9:44 PM<br>Subject: [MAT-announce] MAT seminars: May 4, ESB 2001 at noon: James Oliver: "Recent Advances in Augmented Reality Interface Design"<br>To: mat-announce <<a href="mailto:mat-announce@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu">mat-announce@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu</a>>, composers <<a href="mailto:composers@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu">composers@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu</a>>, community <<a href="mailto:community@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu">community@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu</a>>, students <<a href="mailto:students@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu">students@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu</a>>, faculty <<a href="mailto:faculty@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu">faculty@sonic.mat.ucsb.edu</a>><br><br><br><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Dear all,</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">You and your students are cordially invited to our MAT seminar in the spring quarter 2015.</span></div><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The coming Monday on May 4, 2015, 12pm-1:30pm, <span style="background-color:#fdfdfd">at Engineering Science Building, Room 2001, </span>we have:</span></div><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:#ffffff">James Oliver. </span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:#ffffff">Professor at Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU)</span></span></div><br><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">This event is open to public, coffee will be served. Please join us and spread the word!</span></div><br><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:#ffffff"><strong>Speaker</strong>: </span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:#ffffff"><span style="color:#000000;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important;background-color:#ffffff">James Oliver </span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal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amily:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The goal is to realize the proprioceptive fidelity afforded by head-tracked stereoscopic head-mounted display (HMD)-based AR within a monoscopic monitor-based system. The result is a new AR interface for desktop applications that provides natural visual perception at a higher level of immersion (in terms of field of view and resolution) than HMD-based systems, yet without their cumbersome usability and ergonomic implications, and, at a much lower cost. </span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000">Bio: </span></strong><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000">James Oliver holds the title of University Professor at Iowa State University of Science and Technology (ISU) and serves as Larry and Pam Pithan Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is Director of ISU’s Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) – an interdisciplinary research center focused on emerging interface technologies serving 40 faculty, 160 graduate and 120 undergraduate student researchers. Professor Oliver also directs ISU’s Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) that complements the VRAC’s research mission by providing PhD, MS, and Professional Certificate degrees in HCI, with more than 200 students currently enrolled. At the VRAC, Oliver recently led fund raising, technical specification, and management of a $5M upgrade to the C6 – now the world’s highest resolution (100M pixel) fully immersive VR room.</span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Professor Oliver’s research, teaching and economic development activities span a wide array of emerging interface technologies, encompassing computer graphics, geometric modeling, virtual and augmented reality, and collaborative networks for applications in product development, manufacturing and complex system operation. He is an internationally recognized expert with more than 25 years of academic and industrial experience, and over 100 papers published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Through the course of his career, has secured more than $27M in funding to support his research from federal sources including NSF, NASA, ONR, AFRL, the US Army, as well as numerous industrial sponsors, and has advised 15 PhD and 60 MS graduates.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">From 1997-2000 Oliver headed product development for Engineering Animation Inc. (NASDAQ:EAII, now part of Siemens PLM), where he led the creation of a unique Internet-based visual collaboration tool for supply chain integration. He also served as Vice President of Product Development at Cognicity, Inc. a Minneapolis-based startup focused on Internet-based entertainment marketing. More recently, Professor Oliver co-founded BodyViz, a high technology startup focused on low cost, easy to use medical visualization with sales in the medical, education, veterinary and legal markets.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Professor Oliver received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in 1986. He is a Fellow of the ASME, holds three U.S. patents, and is the recipient of numerous professional honors and awards.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">website:</span></strong></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/" target="_blank">http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/</a></span></p></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0.25em 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13.9192008972168px;color:#363636;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:17.3990020751953px;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background:#ffffff"><br></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:#fdfdfd">We look forward to seeing you all <span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:none">next Monday</span></span> at the seminar</span><span style="background-color:#fdfdfd">!</span></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:n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