University of Central Florida

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University of Central Florida
Randall Shumaker shumaker_at_ist.ucf.edu
INSTITUTE for SIMULATION TRAINING
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Some Partners in the Community
UNIVERSITY of CENTRAL FLORIDA
ARA
Design Interactive
INVIVO RESEARCH INC.
Dept. Homeland Security
Forterra
National Center for Simulation
JDIF
Simulation and Training Technology Center (STTC)
L3 COM
ATT
Raytheon
Institute for Simulation Training
MARINE CORPS
NAVY
ARMY
UNIVERSITY High School
Joint Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab
COAST GUARD
AIR FORCE
Rockwell Collins
ARMY
SAIC
Simigon
LOCKHEED MARTIN
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The University of Central Florida

• Colleges
• Arts
• Sciences
• Business Administration
• Education
• Engineering
• Optics and Photonics
• Health and Public Affairs
• Honors
• Hospitality Management
• Medicine
• Advanced Degrees
• 64 masters degree programs
• 23 doctoral degree programs
• 3 specialist degree programs
• 68 graduate certificate programs

6th largest University in U.S. 2nd in number of
CS grads 2009-10 enrollment gt50,000
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UCF Business Incubation Program
The Incubation Program is a collaboration
among University of Central Florida City of
Orlando Orange County Seminole County City of
Winter Springs Lake County City of Leesburg
Florida High Tech Corridor Council
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Current Results from the UCFIP Clients
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INSTITUTE for SIMULATION TRAINING
Randall Shumaker shumaker_at_ist.ucf.edu
University of Central Florida
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Institute for Simulation Training

• Human Centered ST Research
• Individual and Teams
• Live, Virtual, and Constructive Domains
• Basic and Applied Research for
• Military
• DoT (US, Florida, Other)
• Other Federal (e.g., NSF)
• Private Industry
• Relationship with Business
• Proposal and Contract Collaboration
• SBIR/STTR
• Spin-off/Incubation
• Technology Transfer in ST

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Staff

• Engineers
• Psychologists
• Educators
• Computer Scientists
• Instructional Designers
• Digital Media specialists
• Mathematicians
• ORSA
• Historian
• Cognitive scientists
• Students

Research faculty - 45 Joint
appointments - 9 Staff - 22 Post
docs - 4 Students (undergrad grad)
-141 Total gt220
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Academic and Research Partnerships

• Joint efforts with 10 UCF academic units
• Research funding from key agenciesARO, ARI,
  ARL, ONR, NSF, RDECOM, DARPA, several Florida
  agencies, several foreign governments
• International involvement EU, NATO nations,
  Korea
• Industrial partners Virtual Reality Medical
  Center, L3, CHI, ATT, Army STTC, NAVAIR Orlando,
  Hughes, Thales, Haberman foundations, many small
  businesses.
• Florida academic partnersUSF, FAMU-FSU, FIU,
  FAU, IHMC, UF

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Some Small Business Contractual Relationships

• IAI, Inc.  Stottler Henke Advanced Simulation
  Research (ASR), Inc. Novonics  Vcrsoft LLC
  Eduworks Mirum Corporation Knowledge Based
  Systems, Inc. (KBSI) -  Oregon Center for
  Applied Science (ORCAS) Inc. Forterra Systems,
  Inc

Some Large Business Relationships
Lockheed Martin General Dynamics Robot
SystemsIBM
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Team Orlando Research Development
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Emerging Research in Medical Sim Cultural
Modeling
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A little more detail on some resources
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Mixed Emerging Technology Integration Lab (METIL)
Microsoft Mobile SCORM-conforming courses
Go for the GreenMobile learning sales game with
a golf theme on iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and
Windows Mobile
DAU Sim Cards Classroom, Online, Mobile and
Virtual World Learning Scenarios
Learning, Knowledge Cognition Mobile Games and
Simulations Virtual Worlds Collaborative
Technologies Web 2.0 and beyond
Johnson Johnson PRD 3D University
Mobile My Sports Pulse Challenge Mobile
Simulations for Science, Technology, Engineering
and Math (STEM) Education
Corporate Mobile Learning, Virtual Worlds and
KM/Collab
Innovative integration of 3 domains STEM
Education to improve students interest and future
technical entrepreneurship opportunities Sports
Theme to expand audience, promote interest and
provide extrinsic motivation Mobile Technology
for delivery to a young, broad audience, reaching
millions internationally
PMESII Catalog
Community-editable database wiki for irregular
warfare simulations
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The ACTIVE LabsOperational Neuroscience Sensing
Suite for individual team research
Wearable Arousal Meter Clemson University UFI
www.ufiservingscience.com
OTIS 2 fNIR Archinoetics www.archinoetics.com

• Wearable 802.11g device
• Measures IBI from ECG up to 500 Hz
• Computes arousal four times per sec

• Monitors hemodynamic changes
• ?s 760, 810, 850nm
• 2 areas monitored simultaneously

B-Alert EEG Advanced Brain Monitoring,
Inc. www.b-alert.com
EYEHEAD Remote Eye tracking Applied Science
Laboratories (ASL) www.a-s-l.com

• EEG and EOG
• Real-time classifications for engagement, mental
  workload, distraction and drowsiness

• R6.1 MHT-a
• less restraint on subject,
• pan tilt module follows the operator

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Media Convergence Laboratory (MCL)
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Cognitive rehabilitation
real items to use
physical kitchen
tethered
as seen thru HMD
patient at home
movement for AAR
Patient and therapist in context of patients
kitchen but in safety of clinic Current effort
TBI assessment in a virtual warehouse environment
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Assessment for stutteringin an MR restaurant
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Teacher Training/ScreeningAn hour in an urban
classroom prototype
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HPCC - Stokes

• Stokes
• UCF Resource
• U.S. ARMY RDECOM Funding
• Users IST, Civil Engineering, Physics,
  Nanoscience and Mathematics.
• Intended to Be a Resource for the Modeling and
  Simulation Community.

• Equipment
• Operating System RHEL 5.0
• 81 Nodes/ 648 Cores
• Memory 1.296 TB RAM
• Storage 52 TB
• Interconnect 1 Gbps Ethernet 20 Gbps
  Infini-Band

Stokes High Performance Computing Cluster
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Current Research on Stokes

• IST
• Investigating strategies for MappingMMOG onto
  Stokes.
• Crowd Modeling and Semi-automatedForce (SAF).
• Computational Steering and Visualization.

• Civil Engineering
• Coastal Modeling to bBetter PredictTidal
  Conditions.

• Future MS Research
• New MS Computing Arch.
• Augmented Cognition
• MS InteroperabilityApproaches

• Physics
• Theoretical and ComputationalModeling of
  Materials.

• Nanoscience
• Computer-assisted Design of Non-linear Optical
  Materials with Applications Including Three
  Dimensional Data Storage.