CS 8980: Reading List

Reading List

September 4: A History and Overview of Virtual Reality Technology Development

Sherman and Craig (2003) "Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application, and Design, Morgan Kaufmann, pp.24-36. (handout)

September 11: An Overview of Virtual Reality Applications

Brooks (1999) "What's Real About Virtual Reality?", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 19(6):16-27.

September 23: Display Technologies: Head-Mounted Display Systems

Burdea and Coiffet (2003) "Graphics Displays", in Virtual Reality Technology, 2^nd edition., Wiley, pp. 58-84. (handout)

September 30: Sound in Virtual Environments

Funkhouser et al. (1998) "A Beam Tracing Approach to Acoustic Modeling for Interactive Virtual Environments", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 21-32.

October 2: Mixed and Augmented Reality

Azuma (1997) "A Survey of Augmented Reality", Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 6(4): 355-385.

October 7: Haptics

Catagay Basdogan and Ayam A. Srinivasan (2002) "Haptic rendering in virtual environments", in Handbook of Virtual Environments, K. Stanney, ed., Lawrence ErlbaumInc.
Brooks et al. (1990) "Project GROPE: Haptic displays for scientific visualization", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 177-185.

October 14: Immersive Projection Technology

Cruz-Neira et al. (1993) "Surround-screen projection-based virtual reality: the design and implementation of the CAVE", Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, pp. 135-142.

October 16: Spatial perception in virtual environments

Interrante et al. (2008) "Elucidating Factors that Can Facilitate Veridical Spatial Perception in Immersive Virtual Environments, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, April 2008, (Vol. 17, No. 2), pp. 176-198.

October 30: Gesture-based Interfaces

Mark Billinghurst and William Buxton (2002) "Gesture Based Interaction", in Human Input to Computer Systems: Theories, Techniques and Technology, book manuscript (in progress).

November 4: Avatars in Virtual Environments

Body Centred Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments, by Mel Slater and Martin Usoh

November 6: Tracking Systems

Motion Tracking: No Silver Bullet, but a Respectable Arsenal, by Greg Welch and Eric Foxlin, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, special issue on tracking, Nov/Dec 2002, 22(6):24-38.

November 11: Presence

Using Presence Questionnaires in Reality, by Martin Usoh, Ernest Catena, Sima Arman and Mel Slater, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 9(5): 497-503, October 2000.

November 13: Applications of VR in Psychiatry

A SWOT Analysis of the Field of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation and Therapy, by Albert (Skip) Rizzo and Gerard J. Kim, Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 14(2): 119-146, April 2005.

November 18: Devices and Methods for Object Manipulation in VEs

An Introduction to 3-D User Interface Design, by Doug A. Bowman, Ernst Kruijff, Joseph J. LaViola, Jr. and Ivan Poupyrev, Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, 10(1): 96-108.

November 20: Applications of VR in Data and Information Visualization

Immersive VR for Scientific Visualization: A Progress Report, by Andries van Dam, Andrew S. Forsberg, David H. Laidlaw, Joseph J. LaViola and Rosemary M. Simpson, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 20(6): 26-52.

November 25: Systems for Managing and Rendering Virtual Worlds

VR Juggler: A Virtual Platform for Virtual Reality Application Development, by Allen Bierbaum, Christopher Just, Patrick Hartling, Kevin Meinert, Albert Baker and Carolina Cruz-Neira, Proceedings of IEEE VR 2001, 89-96.

December 2: Locomotion in Virtual Environments

Comparing VE Locomotion Interfaces, by Mary C. Whitton, Joseph V. Cohn, Jeff Feasel, Paul Zimmons, Sharif Razzaque, Sarah J. Poulton, Brandi McLeod and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., Proceedings of IEEE VR 2005, 123-130.

December 4: Use of VR in military simulation

FlatWorld: combining Hollywood set-design techniques with VR, by Jarrell Pair, Ulrich Neumann, Diane Piepol and Bill Swartout, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 23(1): 12-15.