(Academic Leave June 1993 – December 1984)

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

Middle School Mathematics Teacher, Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC) 1973-1975, Wake County (NC) 1975-1976.

Publications: Book Chapters

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 Wendt, J., (2008). Section Perspective Appendix A: Modeling and Rendering. 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. 15-20). Westport, CN: Praeger Security International.

Sonnenwald, D.H., Whitton, M.C. & Magluaghlin, K. (2008). Evaluation of a scientific collaboratory system: Investigating a collaboratory’s potential before deployment. In G. Olson, A. Zimmerman & N. Bos (Eds.), Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, (pp.171-194).Boston: MIT Press.

Whitton, M.C. and Razzaque, S. (2008a). 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.

Whitton, M., & Razzaque, S. (2008b). Locomotion Interfaces Case Study. Retrieved February 13, 2009, from http://books.elsevier.com/companions/9780123740175/casestudies/Case_Study_04.pdf (Companion Case Study to Whitton & Razzaque 2008a)

Taylor II, R. M., D. Borland, F. P. Brooks, Jr., M. Falvo, M. Guthold, T. Hudson, K. Jeffay, G. Jones, D. Marshburn, S. J. Papadakis, L. C. Qin, A. Seeger, F. D. Smith, D. H. Sonnenwald, R. Superfine, S. Washburn, C. Weigle, M. C. Whitton, P. Williams, L. Vicci and W. Robinett, (2003) "Visualization and Natural Control Systems for Microscopy," Visualization Handbook, C. Johnson, C. Hansen, eds., Harcourt Academic Press/

Sonnenwald, Diane, R. Berquist, K. Maglaughlin, E. Kupstas Soo, M. Whitton (2001)"Designing to Support Scientific Research Across Distances: the nanoManipulator Environment," in Collaborative Virtual Environments, E. Churchill, D. Snowdon, and A. Munro, eds., pp. 202-224, London: Springer Verlag, .

Whitton, Mary C., (1990) "Requirements for Scientific Visualization: Evolution of an Accelerator Architecture," in Visualization in Supercomputing, Mendez, Raul (Ed.), pp. 117-129. Springer-Verlag,

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., (Ed.s), pp. 116-133.Washington:IEEE Computer Society Press. (Originally published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 4, no. 3, March 1984, pp. 48-65.)

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Publications: Journal Papers

Note: Computer Graphics has relatively few journals and, historically, the most prestigious places to publish has been in the proceedings of the annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference. I have included SIGGRAPH papers in my list of journal papers.

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. (Invited extended version of IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 conference paper.)

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, Eric, Sharif Razzaque, Mary C. Whitton, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., (2007) MACBETH: Management of Avatar Conflict by Employment of a Technique Hybrid” International Journal of Virtual Reality, 6(2):11-20.

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. (Extended version of IEEE VR 2005 paper.)

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.

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.

Lok, Benjamin, Samir Naik, Mary Whitton, and Frederick Brooks (2003). “Effects of Interaction Modality and Avatar Fidelity on Task Performance and Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments,” Journal on Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 12, 6: 615-628.

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.

Meehan, M., B. Insko, M. Whitton and F. P. Brooks Jr. (2002). "Physiological Measures of Presence in Stressful Virtual Environments." ACM Transactions on Graphics 21(3): 645-652. (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, San Antonio , Texas ).

Usoh, Martin, K. Arthur, M. Whitton, A. Steed, M. Slater, and F. Brooks, “Walking>Virtual Walking>Flying, in Virtual Environments ” Proceedings of SIGGRAPH’99 (Los Angeles, CA, August 11-13), Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series, 1999, pp. 359-364.

State, A., Livingston, M. A., Hirota, G., Garrett, W. F., Whitton, M. C., Fuchs, H. and Pisano, E. D. “Technologies for Augmented-Reality Systems: Realizing Ultrasound-Guided Needle Biopsies,” Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '96 (New Orleans, LA, August 4-9), Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series 1996, 439-446.

State, A., Livingston, M. A., Hirota, G., Garrett, W. F., Whitton, M. C., Fuchs, H. and Pisano, E. D. “Technologies for Augmented-Reality Systems: Realizing Ultrasound-Guided Needle Biopsies,” Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '96 ( New Orleans , LA , August 4-9), Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series 1996, 439-446.

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..

Publications: Reviewed Conferences

Note: Computer Graphics has several highly competitive conferences with high reviewing standards and low acceptance rates: acceptance rates run from less than 20% to about 30% and all papers are reviewed by at least four people before acceptance.

Jerald, J., M. Whitton (in press). Relating Scene-Motion Thresholds to Latency Thesholds for Head-Mounted Displays. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2009 (Lafayette, LA March 2009), pp. XX-XX.

Jerald, J., F. Steinicke, and M. Whitton (2009). Scene-motion thresholds correlate with angular head motions for immersive virtual environments. In Proceedings of Advances in Computer-Human Interaction, pages 69–75, 2009. IEEE:New York.

Jerald, J., Peck, T., Steinicke, F., Whitton, M. (2008). Sensitivity to Scene Motion for Phases of Head Yaws, Proceedings of Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2008 (Los Angeles, August 2008) , pp. 155-132. New York:ACM.

Feasel, J., M.C.Whitton, J.D. Wendt, (2008). LLCM-WIP: Low-Latency, Continuous-Motion Walking-in-Place. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2008 (Reno, NV March 2008), 97-104.

Peck, Tabitha, M. Whitton, H. Fuchs (2008). Evaluation of Reorientation Techniques for Walking in Large Virtual Environments. Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 (Reno, NV March 2008), 121-127. Honorable Mention in Best Paper Competition.

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.

Burns, E., Razzaque, S., Panter, A. T., Whitton, M. C., McCallus, M. R., & 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), 3-10, IEEE Computer Society. Honorable Mention in Best Paper Competition.

Whitton, M., Cohn, J., Feasel, J., Zimmons, P., Razzaque, S., Poulton, S., McLeod, B., Brooks, F., "Comparing VE Locomotion Interfaces," (2005) in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, (Bonn, Germany March, 2005), 123-130, IEEE Computer Society.

Lok, B.C., S. Naik , M. Whitton, F. Brooks, “Incorporating Dynamic Real Objects into Immersive Virtual Environments,” Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics ( Monterey , CA April 2003), 31-40, The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., New York .

Lok, B.C., S. Naik , M. Whitton, F. Brooks, “Effects of Handling Real Objects and Self-Avatar Fidelity on Cagnitive Task Performance in Virtual Environments,” Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003( Los Angeles , CA , March 2003), 125-132, IEEE Computer Society.

Hudson, T., A. Helser, D. Sonnenwald, M. Whitton, “Managing Collaboration in the nanoManipulator,” Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003 ( Los Angeles , CA , March 2003), 180-187, IEEE Computer Society.

Meehan, M., S. Razzaque, M. Whitton, F. Brooks, “Effects of Latency on Presence in Stressful Virtual Environments,” Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003 ( Los Angeles , CA , March 2003), 141-148, IEEE Computer Society.

Sonnenwald, Diane H., Mary Whitton, Kelly Maglaughlin (2002) "Scientific Collaboratories: Evaluating their Potential,"Papers\2002-ASIS-Sonnenwald.html Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Aug/Sep2002, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p12-15.

Aliaga, D., J. Cohen, A. Wilson, E. Baker, H. Zhang, C. Erikson, K. Hoff, T. Hudson, W. Stuerzlinger, R. Bastos, M. Whitton, F. Brooks, D. Manocha, “MMR: An Interactive Massive Model Rendering System Using Geometric And Image-Based Acceleration,” Proceedings of the 1999 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Atlanta, GA, April 26-28, 1999), pp. 199-206, 237.

Garrett, William, H. Fuchs, M. Whitton, A. State. “Real-Time Incremental Visualization of Dynamic Ultrasound Volumes Using Parallel BSP Trees.” Proceedings of IEEE Visualization ’96 (San Francisco, California, October 1996), pp.235-240, 490.

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Publications: Other Papers and Video paper

Jerald, J, A. Fuller, A. Lastra, M. Whitton, L. Kohli, F. Brooks. (to appear). "Latency Compensation by Horizontal Scanline Selection for Head-Mounted Displays,". Proceedings of SPIE Vol 6490 Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems. (San Jose, CA, January 2007)

Muller, P., J. Cohn, D. Schmorrow, R. Stripling, K.Stanney, L., Milham, M. Whitton, J. Folkes (2006). "The Fidelity Matrix: Mapping System Fidelity to Training Outcome," Proceedings of I/ITSEC 2006, (Orlando, FL December 2006).

Brooks, Jr., F. P., J. Cannon-Bowers, H. Fuchs, L. McMillan, M. Whitton, "Virtual Environment Training for Dismounted Teams-Technical Challenges," Paper presented at Human Factors & Medicine Panel Workshop on Virtual Media for Military Applications, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, June 13-15, 2006.

Brooks, F., Cannon-Bowers, J., Fuchs, H., McMillan, L, Whitton, M., "A New VE Challenge: Immersive Experiences for Team Training," Proceedings of HCI International 2005, v.9 (Las Vegas,July 2005). CD-ROM. (Invited)

Whitton, M., B. Lok, B. Insko, F. Brooks, "Integrating Real and Virtual Objects in Virtual Environments," Proceedings of HCI International 2005, v.9 (Las Vegas,July 2005). CD-ROM. (Invited)

Kohli, L., Whitton, M., "The Haptic Hand: Providing User Interface Feedback with the Non-Dominant Hand in Virtual Environments," Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2005 (Victoria,BC,May 2005), 1-8.

Lok, Benjamin, Samir Naik, Mary Whitton, and Frederick Brooks (2004). “Experiences in Extemporaneous Incorporation of Real Objects in Immersive Virtual Environments,” in Beyond Glove and Wand Based Interaction Workshop, IEEE Virtual Reality 2004, Chicago, IL.

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

Mortensen, J., V.Vinayagamoorthy, M. Slater, A. Steed, B. Lok, M. Whitton, (abstract). “Collaboration in Tele-Immersive Environments,“ Proceedings of the Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Reality (2002), 93-101, ACM-The Eurographics Association.

Razzaque, S., D. Swapp, M. Slater, M. C. Whitton and A. Steed (2002). "Redirected Walking in Place." Proceedings of Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (2002), 123-130, ACM - The Eurographics Association.

Razzaque, S. Z. Kohn, M. Whitton, "Redirected Walking," Proceedings of Eurographics 2001, pp. 289-294. September 2001, Manchester , UK .

Insko, Brent, M. Meehan, M. Whitton, F. Brooks, "Passive Haptics Significantly Enhances Virtual Environments," Proceedings of 4th Annual Presence Workshop, Philadelphia , PA , May 2001. (UNC-CH CS Tech Report No. 01-010, available at http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/tech-report.html)

Meehan, Michael, B. Insko, M. Whitton, F. Brooks, "Physiological Measures of Presence in Virtual Environments," Proceedings of 4th Annual Presence Workshop, Philadelphia , PA , May 2001. Available at http://nimbus.temple.edu/~mlombard/P2001/Meehan.pdf (Also available as UNC-CH CS Tech Report No. 01-009, available at http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/tech-report.html)

Hudson, Thomas, D. Sonnenwald, K. Maglaughlin, M. Whitton, R. Bergquist, "Enabling Distributed Collaborative Science" [refereed video-paper]. Video Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Work 2000. Abstract

Arthur, K, T. Preston, R. Taylor, F. Brooks, M. Whitton, W. Wright, “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.

Fuchs, H., A. State, M. Livingston, W. Garrett, G. Hirota, M. Whitton, and E. Pisano (MD). "Virtual Environments Technology to Aid Needle Biopsies of the Breast: An Example of Real-Time Data Fusion." Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality:4 (January 17-20, 1996, San Diego, California), IOS Press, Amsterdam , January 1996.

Fuchs, Henry, Andrei State , Etta D. Pisano (MD), William F. Garrett, Gentaro Hirota, Mark A. Livingston, Mary C. Whitton, and Stephen M. Pizer. “Towards Performing Ultrasound-Guided Needle Biopsies from within a head-Mounted Display.” Proceedings of Visualization in Biomedical Computing 1996 (Hamburg, Germany, October 1996), pp.591-600.

Whitton, Mary C., "Visualization for Sun Users," Computers in Physics, Jan/Feb 1991, pp. 40-43 (Invited).

Whitton, Mary C., “Visualization Accelerators,” NCGA ‘89 Conference Proceedings, National Computer Graphics Association Philadelphia , PA , April 1989, vol. I, pp. 331-339.

Whitton, Mary C., “Accelerating Interactive Applications," NCGA ‘87 Conference Proceedings, National Computer Graphics Association, Philadelphia, PA, April 1987, vol. 3, pp. 439-448.

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Publications: Conference Abstracts, Posters, Panels, and Presentations

Whitton, M.C. (2008). Panelist. Getting around in VR, B. Mohler (Organizer), IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, (Reno, NV, March 2008). IEEE Computer Society.

Burns, E., S. Razzaque, M. Whitton, F. Brooks (2007), “MACBETH: The avatar which I see before me and its movement toward my hand,” (Poster Abstract), Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, 295-296 (Charlotte, NC, March 2007). IEEE Computer Society.

Whitton, M.C. (2006). Panelist. How Do We Solve Human Factors for VR and AR Applications? Mark Livingston (Organizer). IEEE Virtual Reality 2006, (Alexandria, VA, March 2006). IEEE Computer Society.

Cohn, Joseph (LT), M. Whitton, W. Becker, F. Brooks, "Information Presentation and Control Method Impact Performance on a Complex Virtual Locomotion Task" (Poster), Human Factors and Ergonomics Society's 48th Annual Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana, September 20-24, 2004).

Lok, B.C., S. Naik , M. Whitton, F. Brooks, “Incorporating Dynamic Real Objects into Immersive Virtual Environments,” ACM Transactions on Graphics 22(3):701. (Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, San Diego, CA ). (Abstract Only. This was one of three papers from the 2003 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics selected to be presented at SIGGRAPH as a short presentation.)

Sonnenwald, D.H., Maglaughlin, K.L., & Whitton, M.C. (2001). “Using innovation diffusion theory to guide collaboration technology evaluation: Work in progress.” IEEE 10th International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises. (Video paper)

Whitton, Mary C., T. Gaul, A. State, A. Ade, “The great paper deadline,” ACM SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications, p. 329 (Abstract for video presented on SIGGRAPH TV during the conference.)

Argiro, V., Whitton, M., Evans, A., Massell, W., Paddock, S., Fishman, E., (1991). Panelist. Volume visualization comes of age: the state of the art in technology and application, Proceedings of IEEE Visualization '91, 22-25 Oct. 1991, Page(s): 354 -357. Abstract of Panel Presentation.

Whitton, Mary C., “Imaging on a Standard Workstation,” Electronic Imaging West 1991, California , Spring 1991.

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Grants and Research Activities

Effective Virtual Environments (EVE)

Office of Naval Research—2004-2008; $680,000
Topic: Effective Virtual Environments
Co-PIs: Whitton, Brooks

Office of Naval Research—2000-2003; ~ $200,000/year.
Topic: Effective Virtual Environments
PI: Brooks, Co-PI: Whitton

Since 1998 the work of the EVE team, led by Brooks and Whitton and also supported in part by NIH, has focused on understanding what level of quality/performance is required of the technologies of virtual environments in order to maintain the VE illusion and have a successful application. Topics considered include locomotion technique (Usoh & UCL collaborators), field-of-view (Arthur), physiological measures, frame rate, and latency (Meehan, et al.), passive haptics (Insko), redirected walking (Razzaque), effects of lighting and lighting quality (Zimmons). Work continues in locomotion and we have begun a new thread of resesarch investigating usingdata mining and statistical methods to generate evaluation and diagnostic information from logs of behavior and state data collected during simulation-based training sessions.

In the 2008-2009 time frame, this grant is supporting Whitton and Brooks to look out to 2015 and report what technologies will be ready for deployment in VE training systems.

Tools Supporting Distributed Scientific Collaboration

NIH NCRR Supplemental Grant—1998-2002; ~ $450,000/year.
Topic: Design, Develop, Deploy, and Evaluate a System for Distributed Scientific Collaboration.
PI: Russell Taylor III and Richard Superfine
Project Co-Leads: Mary Whitton (CS) and Diane Sonnenwald (UNC-CH School of Information and Library Science)
Competitive supplemental funding for the NCRR Computer Graphics for Molecular Graphics and Microscopy (known locally as GRIP); PI at time of funding - Fred Brooks.

Whitton joined this team as project manager and Investigator a year into the grant period. Under her leadership the design and implementation of the controlled study were completed and systems supporting the long-term evaluation were put in place. She was a major contributor to data analysis and manuscript preparation.

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CISMM: Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation

Whitton is Project Manager and Investigator on this NIH funded activity, Rich Superfine, PI. In addition to various project management duties, she contributes to the team developing user interface tools and co-leads with Brooks the advanced technology investigations which are focused on immersive interfaces.

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Student Committees

Advisor and Ph.D. Committee Chair, Computer Science. Jeff Feasel, Chris VanderKnyff, Tabitha Peck (co-advisor with Henry Fuchs)

Member, Ph.D. Committee, Computer Science: Victoria Interrante (1996), David Leubke (1998), Carl Erikson (2000), Kevin Arthur (2000), Brent Insko (2001), Michael Meehan (2001), Alexander Bokinsky (2003), Benjamin Lok (2002), Paul Rademacher (2002), Thomas Hudson (2004), Paul Zimmons (co-chair, 2004), Sharif Razzaque (2005), Christopher Weigle (2006), Danette Allen (2007), Eric Burns (2007), Justin Hensley (2008), Dorian Miller, Rick Skarbez, Christopher Oates, Jeremy Wendt, Jason Jerald, Luv Kohli, and Karl Gyllstrom.

Whitton was primary advisor to Meehan, Insko, and Lok during Brooks' three sabbatical semesters in the late 1990s, and for Kohli, Wendt, Jerald, and Skarbez during his 2007-2008 stay in the UK. She was an official reader for all of the completed dissertations (i.e., have date) except Interrante and Leubke.

Member, Ph. D. Committee, Information and Library Science. Kelly Maglaughlin (2003).

Integrative Paper Exam Committees: Paul McLaurin, Samir Naik, Sharif Razzaque, Jason Jerald, Eric Burns, Chris Oates, Alvin Richardson

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Teaching

Courses

Spring 2005, Fall 2005
Comp4: Power Tools for the Mind: Introduction to Computing

Fall 2004
Comp 291: Technical Writing

Fall 2000
    Special Topics: Graphics Architecture
    1 hour seminar course
    Co-taught with Anselmo Lastra

Fall 1997
    Special Topics: Current Readings in Computer Graphics
    3 hour seminar course
    Lead of multi-person teaching team

Independent Reading/Project Courses

Fall 2003- Present
Supervised 2-5 reading/project courses each semester

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Exhibits Mounted

SIGGRAPH 1997 UNC Exhibit, Chair
~ 400 square feet, ~ 50 hours of exhibit time, Demo team of 25+ student, faculty, staff
Displayed: nanoManipulator, PowerPlant Walkthrough, remote Pixel Flow, 6 display cases

SIGGRAPH 1998 UNC Photo Exhibit Curator
“Visual Tribute to Computer Graphics Laboratories, 1971-1978”
Curator for the 12 UNC photos in the exhibit

SIGGRAPH 2002 UNC Exhibit, Chair
Faculty advisor (with Fred Brooks) to the user study run concurrently with the exhibit
Virtual Environment demonstration of "The Pit" plus posters and video exhibit of UNC Graphics and Image Research.
~ 800 square feet, ~ 44 hours of exhibit time, Demo team of 20+ student, faculty, staff
~ 200 guests experienced the PIT virtual environments demo and
~ 170 guests were participants in a user study conducted concurrently with the demos

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Departmental Service

Department Local IRB Committee Chair (2002-present)
Interior Design Committee for Brooks Building (2006-2007)
COMP101/102 Curriculum Committee (non-majors introductory course) (2006-2007)
Graphics and Image Lab Committee, Chair (1996-2006)
Facilities Committee (1999-2001)
Building and Grounds Committee (1997-1998)
Supervised departmental Demonstration Coordinator, 1995-1999

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Professional Activities and Service

Editorial Board
2003-2006	Presence: Teleoperation and Virtual Environments

ACM
1978-present	Member
1993-1998	Member, ACM SIGBoard
1997-1998	Member, ACM SIGBoard Bylaws Revision Committee
1998-2000	Member, ACM Council
ACM SIGGRAPH
1978-present	Member
1990-1999	Member, ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
1993-1995	Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee (Position is now called President)
1994	Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH in the 21st Century, Long Range Planning Conference

ACM Symposium on Interactive 3-D Graphics
1999-2004	Symposium Steering Committee Member
2001	Symposium General Chair
1990	Program Committee

IEEE and IEEE Computer Society
1980-present	Member
2003	Virtual Reality 2004 Conference, Program Committee

Society of Women Engineers
1976-present	Student Member, Member (1978), Senior Member (1984)
1984-1987	Officer, Eastern NC Section

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, ACM I3D Symposium, IEEE VR and Visualization Conferences, IEEE 3D User Interface Workshop, ACM Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization
1993-present	Reviewer
2000-present	Program Committee Member (typically for 2 conferences/year)

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Other Activities

2006	Supervised Home-Schooled High School Intern
2002, 2004	Supervised High School Intern from NC School of Science and Math
1995-2007	Engineering Advisory Board, The Aurora Funds, LLC
1994-present	Graduate School Board of Advisors, N. C. State University
1994-1996	Board of Directors, North Carolina Interactive Visual Technology Center
1993-1994	Technical Advisory Council, North Carolina Supercomputer Center
1991-1993	Executive Education Advisory Board, Kenan-Flagler Business School , UNC-CH
1984-1987	Treasurer, Oberlin Road Branch Committee on Administration, Wake YWCA

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Honors

1998	Inclusion in “Computer Graphics Pioneers” Portrait Gallery, SIGGRAPH 98
1983	Wake County (NC) Businesswoman of the Year, American Business Women's Association
1978	Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
1971-1973	National Defense Education Act Fellowship, N. C. State University
1966-1970	Angier B. Duke Scholarship, Duke University

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Education

Continuing Education

Professional Experience

Publications: Book Chapters

Publications: Journal Papers

Publications: Other Papers and Video paper

Publications: Conference Abstracts, Posters, Panels, and Presentations

Grants and Research Activities

Student Committees

Teaching

Exhibits Mounted

Departmental Service

Professional Activities and Service

Editorial Board

ACM

Society of Women Engineers

ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, ACM I3D Symposium, IEEE VR and Visualization Conferences, IEEE 3D User Interface Workshop, ACM Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

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Other Activities

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Honors