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  • 2011 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Joseph J. LaViola is affiliated with the University of Central Florida in the United States. Their main field of research is Computer Science, with a strong focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Additional work includes topics related to Building and Construction as well as Social Psychology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Augmented Reality Applications, Tactile and Sensory Interactions, Interactive and Immersive Displays, Human Pose and Action Recognition, Hand Gesture Recognition Systems, and BIM and Construction Integration.

Recent publications by Joseph J. LaViola include:

  • Extended Reality (XR) for Condition Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures: A Literature Review, 2022, Sensors
  • SHREC 2021: Skeleton-based hand gesture recognition in the wild, 2021, Computers & Graphics
  • Sharing gaze rays for visual target identification tasks in collaborative augmented reality, 2020, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
  • The Effects of Object Shape, Fidelity, Color, and Luminance on Depth Perception in Handheld Mobile Augmented Reality, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Effects of Field of View on Egocentric Distance Perception in Virtual Reality, 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Joseph J. LaViola include:

  • Kevin Pfeil
  • Sina Masnadi
  • Mykola Maslych
  • Andrea Giachetti
  • Yahya Hmaiti

Joseph J. LaViola's work has been published mainly in these venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computers & Graphics

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Joseph J. LaViola was named an ACM Senior Member in 2011.

Best Publications

  • 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice

    Doug A. Bowman;Ernst Kruijff;Joseph J. LaViola;Ivan Poupyrev

  • A discussion of cybersickness in virtual environments

    Joseph J. LaViola

  • An Introduction to 3-D User Interface Design

    Doug A. Bowman;Ernst Kruijff;Joseph J. LaViola;Ivan Poupyrev

  • Immersive VR for scientific visualization: a progress report

    A. van Dam;A.S. Forsberg;D.H. Laidlaw;J.J. LaViola

  • On Kalman Filtering With Nonlinear Equality Constraints

    S.J. Julier;J.J. LaViola

  • A comparison of unscented and extended Kalman filtering for estimating quaternion motion

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  • CavePainting: a fully immersive 3D artistic medium and interactive experience

    Daniel F. Keefe;Daniel Acevedo Feliz;Tomer Moscovich;David H. Laidlaw

  • MathPad2: a system for the creation and exploration of mathematical sketches

    Joseph J. LaViola;Robert C. Zeleznik

  • Exploring the Trade-off Between Accuracy and Observational Latency in Action Recognition

    Chris Ellis;Syed Zain Masood;Marshall F. Tappen;Joseph J. Laviola

  • Hands-free multi-scale navigation in virtual environments

    Joseph J. LaViola;Daniel Acevedo Feliz;Daniel F. Keefe;Robert C. Zeleznik

  • Double exponential smoothing: an alternative to Kalman filter-based predictive tracking

    Joseph J. LaViola

  • Code bubbles: a working set-based interface for code understanding and maintenance

    Andrew Bragdon;Robert Zeleznik;Steven P. Reiss;Suman Karumuri

  • Code bubbles: rethinking the user interface paradigm of integrated development environments

    Andrew Bragdon;Steven P. Reiss;Robert Zeleznik;Suman Karumuri

  • The Wiimote and Beyond: Spatially Convenient Devices for 3D User Interfaces

    Chadwick A. Wingrave;Brian Williamson;Paul D. Varcholik;Jeremy Rose

  • Safety vs. Surveillance: What Children Have to Say about Mobile Apps for Parental Control

    Arup Kumar Ghosh;Karla Badillo-Urquiola;Shion Guha;Joseph J. LaViola

  • An Introduction to 3D User Interface Design

    Doug A. Bowman;Ernst Kruijff;Joseph J. LaViola;Ivan Poupyrev

  • Bringing VR and Spatial 3D Interaction to the Masses through Video Games

    J.J. LaViola

  • Exploring 3d gesture metaphors for interaction with unmanned aerial vehicles

    Kevin Pfeil;Seng Lee Koh;Joseph LaViola

  • Understanding user experience in stereoscopic 3D games

    Jonas Schild;Joseph LaViola;Maic Masuch

  • Dense and Dynamic 3D Selection for Game-Based Virtual Environments

    J. Cashion;C. Wingrave;J. J. LaViola

  • Breaking the status quo: Improving 3D gesture recognition with spatially convenient input devices

    Michael Hoffman;Paul Varcholik;Joseph J. LaViola

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Zeleznik
Robert C. Zeleznik Brown University
Tim Miller
Tim Miller University of Queensland
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen M. Fiore
Stephen M. Fiore University of Central Florida
Steven P. Reiss
Steven P. Reiss Brown University
Doug A. Bowman
Doug A. Bowman Virginia Tech
Ivan Poupyrev
Ivan Poupyrev Google (United States)
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gerd Bruder
Gerd Bruder University of Central Florida
Rahul Sukthankar
Rahul Sukthankar Google (United States)

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