Mary C. Whitton

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whitton@unc.edu CB 3175, 256 Sitterson Hall voice: +1 919 962 1950
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175 fax: +1 919 962 1799

Education

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (1984)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Thesis Title: Special Purpose Hardware for the Display of Free-Form Surfaces

M.S. Guidance and Personnel Services (1974)

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Thesis Title: Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the

Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory

B. A. Religion (1970)

Duke University, Durham, NC

Continuing Education

Program for Technology Managers, 1985, UNC-CH Kenan-Flagler Business School; 100 hours

Professional Experience

Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Associate Professor, July 2004 – present

Research Assistant Professor, May 1995 – July 2004

Manager of Virtual Environments Research Projects, November 1994-May 1995

Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)
Chief Domain Scientist, Computer Science (25% FTE), August 2008 – present

    Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun acquired Trancept Systems, Inc. May 1987)
            Sun Microsystems Laboratories, July 1993 – October 1994
            Director of Marketing, Advanced Visualization Products, June 1987 – July 1993

Trancept Systems, Inc.
Vice President and Co-Founder, January 1986 - May 1987

Adage, Inc. (Adage acquired Ikonas, October1982)
Director of Marketing--Graphics Terminals, October 1982 - August 1986

(Academic Leave June 1993 – December 1984)

Ikonas Graphics Systems, Inc.
Vice President and Co-Founder, July 1978 – October 1982

Selected Recent Publications

* indicates co-authorship with collaborators from beyond the Computer Science Department at UNC

Virtual Environments Systems and Interfaces

Peck, Tabitha, H. Fuchs, M. Whitton (in press). Evaluation of Reorientation Techniques for Walking in Large Virtual Environments. Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Washington:IEEE Press.

Whitton, M.C. and Brooks, F.P. (2008). Evaluating VE Component Technologies. In The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education: Vol.2. VE Components and Training Technologies, Schmorrow, Cohn, J., and Nicholson, D., (Series Eds), Nicholson, D., Schmorrow, D. and Cohn, J. (Vol. Eds.), pp.240-261. Westport, CN: Praeger Security International.

Whitton, M.C. and Loftin, R.B. (2008). Section Perspective: VE Component Technologies. In The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education: Vol.2. VE Components and Training Technologies, Schmorrow, Cohn, J., and Nicholson, D., (Series Eds), Nicholson, D., Schmorrow, D. and Cohn, J. (Vol. Eds.), pp.1-14. Westport, CN: Praeger Security International.

Whitton, M.C. and Razzaque, S. (2008). Locomotion. In Kortum, P. (Ed.), HCI Beyond the GUI: Design for Haptic, Speech, Olfactory and Other Nontraditional Interfaces, pp 107-146. Burlington, MA: Morgan Kaufmann.

*Mihalik JP, Whitton MC, & Kohli L. (2008). Do the physical characteristics of a virtual reality device contraindicate its use for balance assessment? Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, 2008, 16(38-49).

*Burns, E., Razzaque, S., Panter, A. T., Whitton, M. C., McCallus, M. R., & Brooks, F. P. (2006) The Hand is Slower than the Eye: A quantitative exploration of visual dominance over proprioception, Journal on Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environemnts,15, 1:1-15, February 2006.

Meehan, M,. S. Razzaque, B. Insko, M. Whitton, F. Brooks, (2005). Review of Four Studies on the Use of Physiological Reaction as a Measure of Presence in Stressful Virtual Environments, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 30 (3), 239-258.

Whitton, Mary C. (2003). Making Virtual Environments Compelling. Communications of the ACM, 46 (7), 40-47. (Invited)

Collaboration and Systems for Collaboration

*Glencross, M., C. Jay, J. Feasel, L, Kohli, M. Whitton, R. Hubbold (2007). Effective Cooperative Haptic Interaction over the Internet” Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, (Charlotte, NC Mar 2007), 115-122.

*Sonnenwald, Diane H., M. Whitton, K. Maglaughlin (2003). Evaluating a Scientific Collaboratory: Results of a Controlled Experiment, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, 10(2), 151-176.

*Hudson, T., A. Helser, D. Sonnenwald, M. Whitton. (2004) Managing Collaboration in the nanoManipulator, Journal on Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 13(2), 193-210.

*Sonnenwald, Diane H., K. Maglaughlin, M. Whitton (2004). Designing to Support Situation Awareness across Distances: An Example from a Scientific Collaboratory, Information Processing & Management, 40(6), 989-1011

Arthur, K, T. Preston, R. Taylor, F. Brooks, M. Whitton, W. Wright, (1998). Designing and Building the PIT: a Head-Tracked Stereo Workspace for Two Users, 2^nd International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop, Workshop CD-ROM, Carolina Cruz-Neira, ed., Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, May 11-12, 1998

Pre-Academic Career Publications

Whitton, Mary C. (1988). Memory Design for Raster Graphics Displays, in IEEE Tutorial: Computer Graphics Hardware, Image Generation, and Display, Reghbati, H. and Lee, A. (Eds) IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988, pp. 116-133.

Whitton, Mary C. (1975). Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 22(3), 204-209 (May 1975). APA.

Ph.D. Advising

Advisor or Co-Advisor: six graduated and five in process.

Committee Member: ten graduated and two in process.

Selected Service Activities

2001 Chair, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics

1993-2000 ACM SIGBOARD; SIGBOARD Representative on ACM Council 1998-2000.

1990-1999 ACM SIGGRAPH: Executive Committee; President, 1993-1994;
Chair, SIGGRAPH in the 21^st Century Long Term Planning Workshop (1994)

1994- Frequent reviewer and program committee member for IEEE and ACM conferences and journals.

1994- Member Board of Advisors of the Graduate School at North Carolina State University

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