Eric M. Burns

Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Sitterson Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
burns@cs.unc.edu
(919) 962-1779

Research Interests

Virtual Environments
      Effective Virtual Environments Page

Human Computer Interaction

3D Interactive Computer Graphics


Courses

Current

Spring 2005

Fall 2004

Spring 2004

Fall 2003

Spring 2003

Fall 2002


Classes Taught

Spring 2005


Publications

Article

Burns, E., Razzaque, S., Whitton, M.C., McCallus, M.R., Panter, A.T., and Brooks, F.P. (2006) The Hand is More Easily Fooled than the Eye: Users are more sensitive to visual interpenetration than to visual-proprioceptive discrepancy. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (in press).

Papers

Adelstein, B.D., Burns, E.M., Ellis, S.R., and Hill, M.I. (2005) Latency Discrimination Mechanisms in Virtual Environments: Velocity and Displacement Error Factors. Proceedings, 49th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, September 2005.

Burns, E., Razzaque, S., Whitton, M.C., McCallus, M.R., Panter, A.T., and Brooks, F.P. (2005) The Hand is Slower than the Eye: A quantitative exploration of visual dominance over proprioception. Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, (Bonn, Germany, March 2005), IEEE Computer Society.

Short Paper

Kohli, L, Burns, E., Miller, D., and Fuchs, H. (2005) Combining Passive Haptics with Redirected Walking. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Teleexistence 2005, (Christchurch, New Zealand, December 2005). (To appear)

E-journal Article

Burns, E. and Razzaque, S. (2003) “Avatar Redirection: An Exploration of Sensory Conflict.” Presence-Connect Online Journal.

Poster

Armstrong, R., Berry, N., Kyker, R., Pancerella, C., Yang, C., Moor, K., Wolfe, A., Burns, E., Lambert, B., Elliot, S., Fan, T., Kershaw, C., and Davis, H. (2001). “General Framework for Wireless Smart Distributed Sensors”, Supercomputing 2001 Conference, Denver. (poster)


Honors and Awards

Honorable mention in competition for best paper at IEEE VR 2005 (2005)
Honorable Mention in NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Competition (2002, 2004)
Graduated from Rutgers University, School of Engineering with Highest Honors, tied for first in class (2002)


Curriculum Vitae