Develop, Improve, and Use Virtual Environments

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Develop, Improve, and Use Virtual Environments
Effective Virtual Environments Group Mary Whitton
Fred Brooks (on research leave 07-08)
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New Project
Serious Games Concussion Rehabilitation
Impact Data Football player

• 31 impacts over two sessions
• Range 2.87 g to 97.97 g (mean 28.95 g)

Front
Side
Back
Collaboration with Exercise and Sports Science
DepartmentHope for RA funding for this Fall 08
(unlikely for Spring 08)
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• Concussion Rehabilitation
• Scenario control variety and difficulty
• Feedback delivery does where matter?
• Presentation media and depth perception
• Wii Balance Board vs (Expensive) Balance Plate

RA Chris VanderKnyff, CS RA Jason Mihalik, EXSS
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Virtual Locomotion
Walking-in-Place Jeff Feasel More natural
Jeremy Wendt
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• Locomotion Walking-in-Place
• Establish direction of motion and leave hands
  free (eliminate gamepad from current design)
• Improve sensors worn on the feet?
• Technique using force plate? transfer to Wii
  Board

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Locomotion More Natural
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Locomotion More Natural

• Compare optical flow in real walking,
• WIP, and JS
• - Make the stationary IFs more like real
  walking across the senses

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Locomotion

• Redirected Walking
• Goals
• - Free to walk anywhere
• Imperceptible redirection (mostly)

Tabitha Peck
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Tools for Serious Games Logs

• Automated evaluation(classification) of
  performance from logs
• Building behavior models from logs
• ID errors leading to poor performance
• Building predictive models from logs

Chris VanderKnyff Jeff Feasel Rick Skarbez
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Opportunities

• Fellowship students welcome to team
• Interviews for 991s tomorrow
• Signup, outside 207 (near reading room)
• Got your own ideabring it on
• PIT evironment demos tonight
• Team members around to talk to
• EVE team meeting tomorrow
• 4 pm, 284 (open area with big table)

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whitton_at_cs.unc.edu 962-1950 Room 207