The Future Immersive Virtual Environments (FIVE) Lab performs research on state-of-the-art virtual reality (VR) systems and 3D user interfaces (3DUIs). We investigate the effects of system fidelity through user studies focused on performance, experience, learning, and training. Our goal is to better understand today’s technologies to push the boundaries of tomorrow’s immersive virtual environments.
UTD ARS Research Colloquium (3/4/2013) - Dr. McMahan will be presenting “The Effects of System Fidelity for Virtual Reality Applications” at the UTD ARS Research Colloquia Series at 12pm on Wednesday, April 10. Undergraduate Research Grant Poster Contest (3/3/2013) - Tyler Hurst will be presenting a poster on his Training with LEGOs research at the UTD Undergraduate Research Grant Poster contest held on March 29 in the Alexander Clark Center from 2:00-5:00pm. Aszgard5 (2/5/2013) - Thanks to James Hall and Fei Tang, the FIVE Lab has a customized version of UIUC’s Aszgard development environment for virtual reality applications. Now available under Resources. UTD Undergraduate Research Scholar Award (11/5/2012) - Tyler Hurst has received one of UTD’s Undergraduate Research Scholar Awards to conduct research on training transfer during LEGO construction. As faculty advisor, Dr. McMahan has also received $300 to fund the research. UTD Computer Science Colloquium (9/17/2012) - Dr. Ryan McMahan will be presenting “The Effects of System Fidelity for Virtual Reality Applications and Training Transfer” at the UTD Computer Science Colloquium on Friday, September 21.
The goal of this research is to establish objective and subjective baseline measurements of the training transfer that occurs when individuals use instructions included by the manufacturer to construct a LEGO model.
We have helped develop a software system that easily integrates with MATLAB scripts to provide the capability to view visualizations in virtual reality (VR) systems. We call this system “ML2VR”.
We have developed a novel virtual reality (VR) application called ”Super-KAVE”, which uses a CAVE to immerse users in a life-size representation of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector.
We conducted two controlled studies to reevaluate the effects of display fidelity and interaction fidelity on the primary subtasks of a FPS game (locomotion and targeting), in the absence of complex strategies.
