IEEE Hampton Roads Section Technical Presentation - Digital Senses

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With the ever-increasing presence of mobile and ubiquitous computing in our lives, the digital word has become an important part of our daily experience. However, both worlds, physical and digital, are still clearly delineated. While visualization techniques allow us to gain better insight into the digital world, we can hardly ever be fully part of it. Extensions or augmentation of human sensory capacity is one of the avenues to get closer to the idea of transhumanism. The history of sensory augmentation goes well beyond the last thirty years, as evidenced by devices such as microscopes, bifocals, and binoculars. However, we can observe how close these tools have become to our bodies. Smart glasses, such as the HoloLens, and even smart contact lenses are manifestations of such a transition. 
 
The talk will focus on leveraging advancements in Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction to capture and reproduce the physical world, synthesizing the digital world, and adding the stimuli of human senses. Dr. Rechowicz will discuss how helping humans or machines to perceive and respond to these stimuli impacts many domains, including healthcare, manufacturing, humanities, and education. The talk will also discuss enabling humans to become part of the digital world as well as seamlessly integrate it with our lives in response to a high level of adaptiveness to ever increasing complexity of systems required. The last part of the presentation will introduce the Digital Senses Lab at Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center (VMASC) led by Dr. Rechowicz and provide an overview of the demo session led by Mr. Hector Garcia, a senior project scientist at VMASC. 

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  • Date: 21 Sep 2017
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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  • 1030 University Blvd.
  • Suffolk, Virginia
  • United States 23435
  • Building: Virginia Modeling, Analysis & Simulation Center
  • Room Number: 2100A
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  • Vukica Jovanovic, PhD

    IEEE Hampton Roads Chair

    Old Dominion University

    phone: 757-683-3769

  • Starts 14 July 2017 12:00 AM
  • Ends 20 September 2017 12:00 AM
  • All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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  Speakers

Krzysztof Rechowicz, Ph.D. Krzysztof Rechowicz, Ph.D. of Old Dominion University

Topic:

Digital Senses - Blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds

Biography:

Dr. Krzysztof Rechowicz is a research assistant professor at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center (VMASC) at Old Dominion University and the lead of the Digital Senses lab. His diversified interests and philosophy stem from a diverse education and research work, including a graduate degree in Mechanics and Machine Construction and a Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation. Dr. Rechowicz has over a decade of experience developing and conducting research on Virtual Reality representations of real world systems with an emphasis on medical and manufacturing applications. Dr. Rechowicz spent two years as a researcher in-residence at the Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) working with industry to provide production-ready solutions. Dr. Rechowicz currently represents ODU at CCAM as a member of its Technical Advisory Council.  

Email:

Address:VMASC, 1030 UNIVERSITY BLVD, SUFFOLK, Virginia, United States, 23435

Hector Garcia Hector Garcia of Old Dominion University

Topic:

Digital Senses - Demonstration

Mr. Garcia will provide a hands-on demonstration of in the Digital Senses lab showcasing various applications of sensory augmentation including public safety, virtual archeology, and augmented and virtual museum. 

Biography:

Mr. Garcia is a Senior Project Scientist at Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center, in the area of Visualization, Virtual Environments and Virtual Reality, integrating state of the art visualization systems with modeling and simulation applications, and the Scientist most closely involved with the CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) on ODU's Norfolk Campus. Mr. Garcia received his Masters in Architecture from the University of Houston in 1997. Mr. Garcia’s expertise includes the use of large scale visual simulation display systems, the use of tracking devices, robotics, and haptic devices used in training and education. Mr. Garcia is a member of the Digital Senses lab at VMASC.

Email:

Address:VMASC, 1030 University Blvd, Suffolk, Virginia, United States, 23435


Krzysztof Rechowicz, Ph.D. of Old Dominion University

Topic:

Digital Senses - Blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds

Biography:

Email:

Address:SUFFOLK, Virginia, United States

Hector Garcia of Old Dominion University

Topic:

Digital Senses - Demonstration

Biography:

Email:

Address:Suffolk, Virginia, United States





Agenda

6:00-6:30 pm, Networking

6:30-7pm, Dinner

7-7:15pm, Section Announcements

7:15-8pm, Technical Talk and Q&A