Michael Zyda is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with a strong focus on areas such as Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Mechanical Engineering.
The scientist's work concentrates on topics including Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts, Interactive and Immersive Displays, Educational Games and Gamification, Artificial Intelligence in Games, Augmented Reality Applications, Hand Gesture Recognition Systems, and Teleoperation and Haptic Systems.
Michael Zyda has published extensively, with notable publication venues including Computer, Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, arXiv (Cornell University), and the 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW).
Frequent co-authors in their research include Powen Yao, Tian Zhu, Vangelis Lympouridis, Yilei Zeng, and Aayush Shah.
Among recent papers are:
Michael Zyda has been recognized by professional organizations with distinctions including ACM Fellow (2020) for contributions to game design, game and virtual reality networking, and body tracking; IEEE Fellow (2019) for contributions to game design and networking; and ACM Senior Member since 2009.
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