News
2003
December 2nd, 2003
The Virtual
Vaudeville Project was demonstrated at The National Science
Foundation (NSF) Digital Library Initiatives National Science
Digital Library Programs and The Institute of Museum and
Library Services Joint Principal Investigators Meeting in
Washington D.C. The demo audience included members of congress.
December 1-5, 2003
Ed Price represented the United States at the International Organization for
Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee
1 Sub Committee 35 meeting on Standards for User Interfaces in Paris, France.
December 1 & 2, 2003
Maribeth Gandy participated in the demonstration of the Virtual
Vaudeville Project at The National Science Foundation (NSF) Digital Library
Initiatives National Science Digital Library Programs and The Institute of
Museum and Library Services Joint Principal Investigators Meeting. The demo
audience included members of congress.
November 20, 2003
Ed Price presented the MIC project at
the Association of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference in Vancouver,
Canada.
November 5-7, 2003
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November 2-5, 2003
Maribeth Gandy presented a demo of DART: the Designer’s Augmented
Reality Toolkit at the UIST 2003 conference in Vancouver, Canada.
October 27-28, 2003
Ed Price, Maribeth Gandy and Jim Mueller had a paper accepted to the 10th meeting
of the World Wireless Research Forum entitled “User Needs Analysis
of Persons with Disabilities using Cellular Phones.” Ed presented
the paper at the meeting in New York City.
October 21st, 2003
Maribeth Gandy presented a tutorial entitled "Wearable Computing for
People with Disabilities” at the International Symposium on Wearable
Computing (ISWC) in White Plains, NY.
October 12-15, 2003
Ed Price presented the MIC project at the National Science Digital Library
meeting in Washington D.C.
October 9-10, 2003
Maribeth Gandy presented a demo of DART: the Designer’s
Augmented Reality Toolkit at the International Symposium on Mixed and
Augmented Reality (ISMAR) in Tokyo Japan.
The DART demo was accompanied by the presentation of
a paper called “Prototyping Applications with DART: The
Designer's Augmented Reality Toolkit” in The International
Workshop on Software Technology (STARS) which is part of the ISMAR
annual conference.
September 22, 2003
IMTC and GCATT co-hosted the Future of Entertainment Forum with the Digital
Arts & Entertainment Lab at GSU. [ more
information ]
September 9th, 2003: Moving Image Collections
project issues press release, receives press coverage.
Read some of the articles:
June 23, 2003: Jennifer Bilotta and Robert Todd
(CATEA) presented a four hour pre-conference workshop course
entitled "Constructing
An Accessible Web Experience: Usability, Equity And Enhancement
Through Design” to 11 registrants from several different
countries at the 10th International Conference on Human - Computer
Interaction (HCII). The tutorial presentation took place from
2-6pm in Crete, Greece.
June 22, 2003: Ed Price and Maribeth Gandy presented
a successful four hour preconference workshop entitled "Wireless
Mobile Devices” to 18 international registrants at the
10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction (HCII).
The tutorial presentation took place from 2pm - 6pm in Crete, Greece.
June 19-23rd, 2003: RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering
and Assistive Technology Society of North America) -Jennifer Bilotta
and Robert Todd (CATEA) presented a four hour pre-conference workshop
entitled "Constructing An Accessible Web Experience: Equity
And Enhancement Through Design” at RESNA’s 26th
International Conference on Technology & Disability: Research,
Design, Practice, & Policy, to 18 registrants in Atlanta,
GA.
June 19-23rd, 2003
John Peifer, Ed Price, Kevin Grogg, and Vince Gibson conducted a RESNA Workshop
on “Mobile Wireless Devices as Assistive Technology.” This workshop
provided an overview of wireless technology, accessibility of mobile devices,
applications as assistive technology, and demonstrations of wireless devices.
It was held during RESNA’s "26th International Conference on Technology & Disability:
Research, Design, Practice, & Policy,” in Atlanta, GA.
March 17-19, 2003: IMTC along with others on
the Wireless RERC team hosted their annual Industry Forum meeting
and presentation session at the CTIA Wireless 2003 annual conference
in New Orleans, LA. The RERC’s CTIA Seminar: “Mobile Wireless
Technologies for Persons with Disabilities” discussed marketing
opportunities and accessibility issues regarding mobile wireless
technology for persons with disabilities.
January 6, 2003: Georgia
Tech Research News announced that an article on The
Mating Game, developed by IMTC for Zoo Atlanta, would be released
to the news media today. [ Read
the complete article ]
2002
December 2-4, 2002: Ed Price
presented a poster at the National Science Digital Library meeting
in Washington D.C. The poster was about the Moving Image Collections
project.
November 20-23: Ed Price
presented a Poster Session and was a panelist at the Association
of Moving Image Archivists Annual Conference in Boston. The poster
session and talk were about the new Moving Image Collections project.
November 15, 2002: Maribeth
Gandy presented a lecture on HCI for universal design at Clayton
State College and University in Morrow, Georgia.
November 12-13, 2002: IMTC
had a booth in conjunction with the Wireless RERC at the Southeast
Government Technology Conference in Atlanta.
October 10, 2002: Maribeth Gandy’s presentation
on Wearable Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities in Activities
of Daily Living was featured in the October Issue of Wired Magazine.
2001
November 26, 2001: The Georgia Centers for Advanced
Telecommunications Technology (GCATT), Georgia Tech, and Shepherd
Center have received a $5 million, five-year federal grant to develop
applications of wireless technologies to enhance the independence
of people with physical and cognitive disabilities.
September 16, 2001: The Library of Congress Congressional
Research Service urgently requests that the CD-ROM, National Security
for the 21st Century, developed by IMTC and SAGE (completed
and printed January 2000), be sent to them immediately to be included
as part of an information packet on biological terrorism that Congress
has requested for its deliberations this week. The CD-ROM
features excellent documentation on nuclear and biological weapons
of mass destruction, information warfare, and cyberterrorism.
September 6, 2001: Brian Jones presented and
demonstrated the i-irasshai project at the International Cultural
Heritage and Informatics Meeting in Milan, Italy. The presentation
and related paper (titled i-irasshai: An Immersive Cultural Learning
Experience) described the three-year process of project development
including instructional design, content development, and technological
decisions that brought the project to completion.
June, 2001: Andy Quay, Research Director of IMTC,
has been named Associate Director of the new Digital Worlds Institute
at the University of Florida. The goal of the Digital Worlds Institute
is to solve real world problems and to advance technology by drawing
on the diverse talents and skills of the artist, scientist, and
engineer. The focus of the Institute’s mission is on education,
research, and technology development. James Oliverio, previously
at Georgia Tech, is Director of the newly formed Institute. Andy
will begin his new position on July 1, 2001.
May, 2001: IDEAL is a GCATT-based team of educators,
engineers, and experts who are creating more effective uses of advanced
telecommunications and multimedia technologies for learners of any
age, in any setting. Read the article in the May/June 2001 TechLinks
magazine.
April 23-26, 2001: We had a great crowd for Technology
Week at Georgia Tech. Technology Week seeks to showcase Georgia
Tech’s activities in research in the areas of broadband telecommunications,
signal processing, multimedia systems, and embedded systems design.
March, 2001: Unveiled at the NSCA conference in
March, Conference Composer and the Vortex met with critical acclaim.
IMTC and ASPI Digital will continue to refine the software
and evolve new methods of designing audio networks.
March, 2001: IMTC and the Fernbank
Science Center have signed a joint Memorandum of Understanding
outlining a new collaboration between the two centers to help develop
and implement new methods of instructional technology for science
and mathematics.
March, 2001: IMTC, the School of Industrial Design
and the College of Computing teamed up to create a small version
of the Residential Laboratory for the 2001 Association for Computer
Machinery conference. Visitors could wander through a mock bedroom,
bathroom, living room, and kitchen. Hilighted technologies included
the Digital Family portrait, the Family Intercom, the Gesture
Pendant,
the What Was I Cooking project, the Online Medicine Cabinet (an
Accenture project), and the Listen Reader (a Xerox Parc project).
2000
Ocotber 24, 2000: The Georgia Research Alliance
today announced that Dr. Nikil Jayant has been named Executive
Director of the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications
Technology. Dr. Jayant is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar,
the John Pippin Chair in Wireless Systems at Georgia Tech and the
Director of the Georgia Tech Broadband Institute. Prior to joining
the Georgia Tech faculty in 1998, Dr. Jayant was with New Jersey-based
Bell Laboratories, where he created and managed the Signal
Processing Research Department, the Advanced Audio Technology Laboratory
and the Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory. He also
initiated several new ventures for AT&T and Lucent Technologies,
including businesses in Internet Media, Wireless Communications
and Digital Audio Broadcasting.
June 1, 2000: Two of Georgia Tech’s leading
applied research centers have announced that they are joining forces.
The Interactive Media Technology Center and the Biomedical Interactive
Technology Center will combine operations on July 1, 2000, in order
to provide additional opportunities for conducting innovative,
high
impact research. These two units, part of the Georgia Center for
Advanced Telecommunications Technology, have been two of the driving
forces behind commercialization efforts at GCATT. These two units
have helped provide the seed technology for a number of Georgia-based
startups, including Cyber-Care, Syntermed, and Nexidia.
Dr.
Mark Clements, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Director of the combined center, says “By combining our
operations we will bring a new level of effort to create new
proprietary technologies and bring them to market quickly, which
will benefit
the economy of the state. The larger size of the new center will
allow us to take on more projects, and undertake even more aggressive
research opportunities.”
The new center’s focus is on the application of new computer
and telecommunication technology for a wide range of areas,
including
medicine, education, and culture. Major projects currently
underway are in areas such as telemedicine, audio processing, telepresence,
medical imaging tools, and ubiquitous computing.
May 15, 2000: IMTC is assisting in creating a
new interface technology called the gesture pendant. The pendant
is one of many activies in the aware home involving IMTC. The Aware
Home Research Initiative (AHRI) is a focused research program,
whose goal is to develop the requisite technologies to create a
home environment that can both perceive and assist its occupants.
The scope of the projects carried out within this program
range from fundamental technical development to cognitive and
ethnological studies that assess the most appropriate and compelling
technological strategies. The research is initiated and led by the
members of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Future Computing
Environments Group (FCE). The Aware Home Research Initiative utilizes
the Residential Laboratory established by the Georgia Tech’s
Broadband Institute. [ Gesture Pendant on ABC ]
April 1, 2000: Dr. J. Michael Cummins, Director
and CEO of GCATT, announced that he has accepted a new position
of Chief Marketing Officer with Equifax Corporation. Cummins’ resignation
as Director is effective April 15, 2000. He will continue to serve
on the GCATT Board of Directors as the Equifax representative. The
Interactive Media Technology Center is a research center of GCATT.
1999
November, 1999: Professor Mark A. Clements has
been named director of the Interactive Media Technology Center
at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective December 1999.
The move is part of an initiative designed to increase the visibility
and economic impact of two world class research and development
groups – IMTC and the Center for Signal and Image Processing
(CSIP). In addition to his new duties, Dr. Clements will continue
his activities as a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (ECE), where he teaches courses and advises Ph.D. students’ research.
“My vision is to utilize the development and user interface
talents of the IMTC to bring some of CSIP’s theoretical advances
into usable form. Working demonstrations and prototypes can generate
enormous interest on the part of companies, and they are much
more
effective than simply handing someone a thesis.” -- Dr. Mark
Clements
November 8th, 1999: IMTC in collaboration with
The Savannah College of Art, and Atlanta’s Beacon Dance premiered
a 45 minute interactive dance technology performance titled “E-Motion”.
The audience repsonse from the performance has been very positive.
November, 1999: The US Patent Office has notified
Georgia Tech that its patent claims for the Electronic House Calls
technology have been approved. This technology has been licensed
to Cyber-Care, Inc.
IMTC has installed its latest interactive program, “Down the
Fairway with Bobby Jones”, at the Atlanta History Center.
IMTC releases its newest CD-ROM, “Sam Nunn: The Man From
Perry”, produced with the Georgia Tech Library and Information
Center and the Woodruff Library at Emory University. The CD-ROM
has been given to public school libraries in Georgia.
March 3rd-4th, 1999: IMTC hosted the SURA Video
Applications Workshop on March 3rd and 4th, 1999.
By U.S. News, Georgia Tech is ranked number 10 among public national
universities, up from number 13 last year. Tech also climbed six
slots to number 40 among the best national universities, which includes
public and private universities. In best undergraduate engineering
programs, Georgia Tech is tied for 7th place with Cornell University
and Carnegie Mellon University. Georgia Tech’s DuPree College of
Management is ranked number 32 among the nation’s best undergraduate
business programs.
We had a blast (and learned allot) at Siggraph 1998! Peter presented
his latest work.
1998
June, 1998: IMTC showed its wares at Supercomm ‘98, “The World’s Meeting Place for Total Communications
Solutions”.
April 29, 1998: A new dance technology piece titled
“Desired” debuted. Created in collaboration with IMTC,
the dance featured choreographer Nicole Livieratos and the GardenHouse
Dance Company.
With Mike Sinclair’s departure to Microsoft Research Labs,
Ed Price and Andy Quay have been named Co-Directors of The Interactive
Media Technology Center (IMTC). We wish Mike best wishes and fun
in his new position.
Georgia Tech is rated in the top 20 US research laboratories by
Business Week Magazine
Georgia Tech is also rated number 9 among public universities in
the U.S. by U.S News and World Report magazine.
Presentations
March 17-22, 2003: CSUN (California
State University Northridge Center on Disabilities) - Jennifer
Bilotta and Robert Todd (CATEA) presented a two hour course entitled “Constructing
An Accessible Web Experience: Equity And Enhancement Through Design” at
CSUN’s 18th Annual, International Conference, “Technology
and Persons with Disabilities", in Los Angeles, California.
[ additional
program materials ]
October 7, 2002: Maribeth Gandy presented a tutorial
at the International Symposium on Wearable Computer (ISWC) in Seattle,
WA. The tutorial is titled “A tutorial on wearable computers
for persons with disabilities”. Ms. Gandy discussed how wearable
and mobile devices can be used to improve the lives of people with
hearing, vision, motor, and cognitive disabilies.
September 30th -October 4th, 2002: Ed Price represented
the Wireless RERC at the Ninth Plenary Meeting of INCITS V2 –
Information Technology Access Interfaces in Gaithersburg, Maryland
.
September 9, 2002: Ed Price represented Georgia
Tech at a National Science Foundation workshop on Digital Rights
Management in Higher Education and Research in Washington D.C.
October 13-16, 2002: Scott Robertson presented
a paper (doc, pdf) on the Infusion application at the 2nd Signal
Processing Education Workshop at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain,
Georgia.
October 7, 2002: Maribeth Gandy presented a tutorial
at the International Symposium on Wearable Computer (ISWC) in Seattle,
WA. The tutorial is titled “A tutorial on wearable computers
for persons with disabilities”. Ms. Gandy discussed how wearable
and mobile devices can be used to improve the lives of people with
hearing, vision, motor, and cognitive disabilies.
September 30th-October 4th, 2002: Ed Price represented
the Wireless RERC at the Ninth Plenary Meeting of INCITS V2 –
Information Technology Access Interfaces in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
June 27-July 1, 2002: The Wireless RERC had exhibit
space at the RESNA 25th International Conference on Technology &
Disability: Research, Design, Practice on in Minneapolis,
MN.
June 3, 2002: Maribeth Gandy spoke on Augmented
Reality Gaming at SIGGRAPH Campfire in Snowbird, Utah.
September 6, 2001: Brian Jones presented and demonstrated
the i-irasshai project at the International Cultural Heritage and
Informatics Meeting (ICHIM ‘01) in Milan, Italy. The presentation
and related paper (titled i-irasshai: An Immersive Cultural
Learning Experience) described the three-year process of project development
including instructional design, content development, and technological
decisions that brought the project to completion.
June 29, 1999: Ed Price spoke at the Net 99 Conference,
in Quebec, Canada.
June 4, 1999: Ed Price spoke on “Interdisciplinary
Research: A Researcher’s Perspective” at the Society
for Research Administrators Regional Meeting in San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
June 10, 1999: Maribeth Gandy spoke about the
haptic music project at Microsoft Research on .
June 10, 1999: Peter Presti spoke about IDEAL
(Interactive Display and Electronic Archival of Lectures) at Microsoft
Research.
April 28, 1999: Ed Price spoke at the Internet
2 conference in Washington, DC.
March 3-4 4th, 1999: IMTC hosted the SURA Video
Applications Workshop on .
February 16th, 1999: Ed Price was the keynote
speaker at the Nagano-Georgia Multimedia/Telecommunications Business
and Technology Forum inNagano, Japan.
June, 1998: IMTC had an exhibit space at the
Supercomm ‘98, “The World’s Meeting Place for Total
Communications Solutions” conference at the Georgia World
Conference Center, in conjuction with the GT Broadband Technology
Center.
Publications
October 13, 2002: Clements, Mark, Robertson, Scott,
Miller, Micheal S. “Phonetic Searching Applied to On-Line
Distance Learning Modules”, Proceedings of the IEEE Digital
Signal Processing Society, 2nd Signal Processing Education Workshop,
October 13, 2002. [ doc,
pdf ]
September 29, 2002: Pair, J., Wilson J., Chastine
J., Gandy M. “The Duran Duran Project: The Augmented Reality
Toolkit in Live Performance”. In Proceedings of ART02.
July 21-26, 2002: Macintyre B., Bolter J., Vaughan
J., Hannigan B., Moreno E., Haas M., Gandy M. “Three Angry
Men: Dramatizing Point-of-View using Augmented Reality”. In
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002.
August, 1997: “Texture Maps from Orthographic
Images”, Siggraph 1997 Technical Sketches, August, 1997, Brian
Jones.
August, 1997: “The Haptic Lens”, Siggraph
1997 Technical Sketches, August, 1997, Peter Presti, Michael Sinclair.
September 6, 1996: “Digital Audio and Video
on the Internet”, One Day Course, IEEE Digital Video and Audio
Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 6, 1996, Ed Price, Michael
Sinclair, Jonathan Guffey.
October 6, 1995: “Overview of Multimedia
Projects”, 1995 Audio Engineering Society Conference, New
York City, October 6, 1995. Voted best panel of the conference by
attendees.
September 1994: “Virtual Museums”,
1994 Museum Computer Network Conference, Washington, DC, September
1994, Andrew Quay, Ed Price, Elizabeth Hornor.
1994: “SURGICAL SIMULATION: A Prototype
Device with Stereo Imagery and Force Feedback”, Siggraph 1994
Technical Sketches, Michael Sinclair.
July/August 1994: “Socially Correct Virtual
Reality: Surgical Simulation”, Virtual Reality World, July/August
1994, Michael Sinclair.
June 6, 1994: “Virtual Museums”, 1994
Association of Art Museum Directors Meeting, Seattle, June 6, 1994,
Ed Price, Elizabeth Hornor.
May 1994: “A Prototype Eye Surgery Simulator”,
invited presentation, World Congress on Biomedical Communications,
May 1994, Michael Sinclair.
January 1994: “Virtual Environment for
Eye Surgery Simulation”, Interactive Technology and Healthcare,
conference proceedings, Jan. 1994, Michael Sinclair and John Peifer.
November 1993: “Computer-Simulated Eye Surgery
-- A Novel Approach”, American Academy of Ophthalmology
invited exhibit, Nov. 1993, Michael Sinclair, Ray Haleblian and
John Peifer.
September 1993: “MINT: A Diving Performance
Analysis Tool”, 1993 U.S. Diving Sports Science Seminar, conference
proceedings, Sept. 1993, Michael Sinclair.
“Virtual Reality Excursions”, textbook, AP Professional,
Michael Sinclair, contributor.
“A Method for Visualization of Intracranial EEG Electrodes
Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, Computers and Biomedical
Engineering, John E. Cordova, et. al.
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