Mary C. Whitton                              
Professional Activities
Last updated January 3, 2007
Education 
Professional Experience
Publications
Grants and Research Activities  
Student Committees 
Teaching   
Exhibits Mounted
Departmental Service  
Professional Service
Other Activities
Honors  

whitton@unc.edu                           CB 3175,207 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 

Managing at Sun, 1991, In-house program at Sun Microsystems, Inc.; 40 hours
Program for Technology Managers, 1985, UNC-CH Kenan-Flagler Business School ; 100 hours
Product Planning and Management, 1982, McGraw-Hill Seminar Center; 24 hours

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Professional Experience

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

Research Assistant Professor.  Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , May 1995-June 2004.

Adjunct Assistant Research Professor.  School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , December 2001-present.

Manager of Virtual Environments Research Projects.  Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , January 1995-April 1995

Director, Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc., June 1987-January 1995

Vice President and Co-Founder, Trancept Systems, Inc., January 1986-May 1987
(Trancept acquired by Sun Microsystems, May 1987)

Partner, Whitland Associates, May 1983 - December 1984 and July 1985- December 1985

Director of Marketing, Graphics Terminals, Adage, Inc., October 1982- May 1983 and January 1985- August 1985

Vice President and Co-Founder, Ikonas Graphics Systems, Inc., July 1978-September 1982
(Ikonas acquired by Adage, Inc., October 1982)

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

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Publications: Book Chapters

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

Sonnenwald, D.J., Whitton, M.C., & Maglaughlin, K. (in press). Evaluation of a scientific collaboratory system: Investigating a collaboratory's potential before deployment.  In G. Olsen, A. Simmerson, & M. Bos (Eds.), Science on the Internet.  Boston: MIT Press. Preprint Draft.

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, "Visualization and Natural Control Systems for Microscopy," Visualization Handbook, C. Johnson, C. Hansen, eds., Harcourt Academic Press, 2003.

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

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

Whitton, Mary C., "Memory Design for Raster Graphics Displays," in IEEE Tutorial: Computer Graphics Hardware, Image Generation, and Display, Reghbati, H. and Lee, A., editors, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988, pp. 116-133.   (Originally published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 4, no. 3, March 1984, pp. 48-65.)

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Publications: Journal Papers

Mihalik, J.P., Kohli, L., Whitton, M.C. (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 Envieronments," Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 30 (3), 239-258.

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

Lok, Benjamin, Samir Naik, Mary Whitton, and Frederick Brooks. “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., K. Maglaughlin, M. Whitton. “Designing to Support Situation Awareness across Distances:  An Example from a Scientific Collaboratory,” Information Processing & Management, 40(6), 989-1011.

Sonnenwald, Diane H., M. Whitton, K. Maglaughlin, “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 ).

Whitton, Mary C., “Same-Sex and Cross-Sex Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory,” Journal of Counseling Psychology, vol. 22, no. 3 (May 1975), pp. 204-209.  

Publications: Reviewed Conferences

Peck, Tabitha, M. Whitton, H. Fuchs (2008) Evaluation of Reorientation Techniques for Walking in Large Virtual Environments. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2008.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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. XX-XX (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,” 2nd 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, and Presentations

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.

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., “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—2004-2007; $580,000
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.

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 one-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

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), Christopher Weigle (2006), Danette Allen, Chris VanderKnyff, Jeff Feasel, Justin Hensley.

    Whitton was primary advisor to Meehan, Insko, and Lok during Brooks' three sabbatical semesters.  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 conurrently with the exhibit
Virtual Environment demonstation 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

Interior Design Committee for Building Addition (2006-2007)
COMP101 Curriculum Committee (non-majors introductory course) (2006-2007)
Department Local IRB Committee Chair (2002-present)
Graphics and Image Lab Committee, Chair (1996-present)
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

 

     2006

Symposium Co-Chair

 

     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

 

     1993-present

Reviewer

 

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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-present

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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