Mary C. Whitton Research Associate Professor    Department of Computer Science                             University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 207 Sitterson Hall , CB #3175 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175

(919) 962-1950 (Voice) (919) 962-1799 (Fax) To send me e-mail, click here: whitton_at_cs dot unc dot edu   CV (long version)   Publications

Click in image to get full resolution.   Another Iris Photo May 1, 2008

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Research Interests:

Effective Virtual Environments Research Team (with Fred Brooks)

• What makes virtual environments work?  How do technical factors influence their effectiveness?
  Recent and current work improves and compares means of LOCOMOTION in VEs
    -  Is walking-in-place better than using a joystick to move around in VEs?
    -  Can we make interfaces where you don't really walk be more realistic?
    -  Is it possible to make redirected-walking work without constraints?
• How do we show VEs are worthwhile?
  Can we show training transfer? 
  Can we enable new types of interaction?

Tools for Serious Games

• How can we use logs from training simulators (and games) to evaluate trainee/player performance?
  -  Can we diagnose the cause of a trainee/player's poor performance from the logs?
• Can VE be used for rehabilitation for concussive head injuries?  This is a new collaboration with Exercise and Sports Science.

Still interested, but don't work in this anymore....

• Computer graphics system architecture
  Programmable Graphics Processors--a previous time around the wheel of reincarnation
  Ikonas Graphics Systems (~1980)
  Application Accelerator:  GPGPUs a previous time around the wheel of reincarnation
  Trancept Systems (~1988)

Avocations: Garden and Vintage Sports Car Racing

More on Restoration of my new-old Beach Sports Racer	Other Car Photos
September 21, 2007 at Apex Vintage, Inc. Almost ready to fire it up, but not quite.

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