Leveraging deep contrastive learning for semantic interaction.

The semantic interaction process seeks to elicit a user's mental model as they interact with and query visualizations during a sense-making activity. Semantic interaction enables the development of computational models that capture user intent and anticipate user actions. Deep learning is proving to be highly effective for learning complex functions and is, therefore, a compelling tool for encoding a user's mental model.

The NetSage measurement and analysis framework in practice.

Data sharing is required for research collaborations, but effective data transfer performance continues to be difficult to achieve. The NetSage Measurement and Analysis Framework can assist in understanding research data movement. It collects a broad set of monitoring data and builds performance Dashboards to visualize the data.

Immersive Analytics Lessons From the Electronic Visualization Laboratory: A 25-Year Perspective.

This paper provides a 25-year-long perspective on immersive analytics through the lens of first-in-kind technological advancements introduced at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, along with the challenges and lessons learned from multiple immersive analytics projects.

Application of Human Augmentics: A Persuasive Asthma Inhaler.

This article describes a tailored health intervention delivered on a mobile phone platform, integrating low-literacy design strategies and basic principles of behavior change, to promote increased adherence and asthma control among underserved minority adolescents. We based the intervention and design principles on theories of Human Augmentics and the Elaboration Likelihood Model. We tested the efficacy of using electronic monitoring devices that incorporate informative and persuasive elements to improve adherence to a prescribed daily medication regimen intended to reduce use of asthma rescue medications.

BactoGeNIE: a large-scale comparative genome visualization for big displays.

Background: The volume of complete bacterial genome sequence data available to comparative genomics researchers is rapidly increasing. However, visualizations in comparative genomics--which aim to enable analysis tasks across collections of genomes--suffer from visual scalability issues. While large, multi-tiled and high-resolution displays have the potential to address scalability issues, new approaches are needed to take advantage of such environments, in order to enable the effective visual analysis of large genomics datasets.

Reimagining the microscope in the 21(st) century using the scalable adaptive graphics environment.

Background: Whole-slide imaging (WSI), while technologically mature, remains in the early adopter phase of the technology adoption lifecycle. One reason for this current situation is that current methods of visualizing and using WSI closely follow long-existing workflows for glass slides. We set out to "reimagine" the digital microscope in the era of cloud computing by combining WSI with the rich collaborative environment of the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE).

Visualizing large, heterogeneous data in hybrid-reality environments.

Constructing integrative visualizations that simultaneously cater to a variety of data types is challenging. Hybrid-reality environments blur the line between virtual environments and tiled display walls. They incorporate high-resolution, stereoscopic displays, which can be used to juxtapose large, heterogeneous datasets while providing a range of naturalistic interaction schemes.

Human Augmentics: augmenting human evolution.

Human Augmentics (HA) refers to technologies for expanding the capabilities, and characteristics of humans. One can think of Human Augmentics as the driving force in the non-biological evolution of humans. HA devices will provide technology to compensate for human biological limitations either natural or acquired.

Ultrascale collaborative visualization using a display-rich global cyberinfrastructure.

The scalable adaptive graphics environment (SAGE) is high-performance graphics middleware for ultrascale collaborative visualization using a display-rich global cyberinfrastructure. Dozens of sites worldwide use this cyberinfrastructure middleware, which connects high-performance-computing resources over high-speed networks to distributed ultraresolution displays.

Planetary-scale terrain composition.

Many interrelated planetary height map and surface image map data sets exist, and more data are collected each day. Broad communities of scientists require tools to compose these data interactively and explore them via real-time visualization. While related, these data sets are often unregistered with one another, having different projection, resolution, format, and type.

Advances in the Dynallax solid-state dynamic parallax barrier autostereoscopic visualization display system.

A solid-state dynamic parallax barrier autostereoscopic display mitigates some of the restrictions present in static barrier systems, such as fixed view-distance range, slow response to head movements, and fixed stereo operating mode. By dynamically varying barrier parameters in real time, viewers may move closer to the display and move faster laterally than with a static barrier system, and the display can switch between 3D and 2D modes by disabling the barrier on a per-pixel basis. Moreover, Dynallax can output four independent eye channels when two viewers are present, and both head-tracked viewers receive an independent pair of left-eye and right-eye perspective views based on their position in 3D space.

Cranial implant design using augmented reality immersive system.

Software tools that utilize haptics for sculpting precise fitting cranial implants are utilized in an augmented reality immersive system to create a virtual working environment for the modelers. The virtual environment is designed to mimic the traditional working environment as closely as possible, providing more functionality for the users. The implant design process uses patient CT data of a defective area.

Networked virtual environments and rehabilitation.

Virtual environments (VE) have been shown to be a powerful tool for various forms of rehabilitation. Currently, VE has been used in psychological training, motor recovery, visual relearning, and pain reduction during physical therapy. VE's use is also being explored in stroke rehabilitation coupled to robots, posture control in labyrinthine deficit patients, tele-rehabilitation and in other areas.

New tools for sculpting cranial implants in a shared haptic augmented reality environment.

New volumetric tools were developed for the design and fabrication of high quality cranial implants from patient CT data. These virtual tools replace time consuming physical sculpting, mold making and casting steps. The implant is designed by medical professionals in tele-immersive collaboration.

Considerations for the future development of virtual technology as a rehabilitation tool.

BACKGROUND: Virtual environments (VE) are a powerful tool for various forms of rehabilitation. Coupling VE with high-speed networking [Tele-Immersion] that approaches speeds of 100 Gb/sec can greatly expand its influence in rehabilitation. Accordingly, these new networks will permit various peripherals attached to computers on this network to be connected and to act as fast as if connected to a local PC.