— Thursday
Readings:
— Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace, Marcos Novak
— Immersive Analytics, Tom Chandler, Maxime Cordeil, Tobias Czauderna, Tim Dwyer, Jaroslaw Glowacki, Cagatay Goncu,
Matthias Klapperstueck, Karsten Klein, Kim Marriott, Falk Schreiber, and Elliot Wilson
— Thursday
Readings:
— Performing in Quantum Space: A Creative Approach to N-Dimensional Computing, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
— Immersed in Unfolding Complex Systems, Lance Putnam, Graham Wakefield, Haru Ji, Basak Alper, Dennis Adderton, and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Project:
— Project 1 is made up of two parts: 1) a summarization of a immersive analytics article, and 2) an interactive VR project. You will present your paper summarization on Tuesday, 10/16, and you will demonstrate your VR project on 10/23. Please sign out an MR headset at the Creative Coding Lab (E2-258)
Links:
— Register for Jaron Lanier’s talk at UCSC’s The Humanities Insititute
— Jaron Lanier’s homepage: jaronlanier.com
— Tao Tajima’s homepage: taotajima.jp
— JoAnn Kuchera-Morin’s introduction to the AlloSphere at the Immersive Tech Summit
— Keiichi Matsuda’s Hyper-Reality
Readings:
— Visualization Analysis and Design, chapters 2, 3, and 5, Tamara Munzner
Links:
— Interesting VR events take place downtown regularly at the Cruz XR meetup
— What is AR, VR, MR, XR, 360?
— The difference between AR, VR, MR, XR and how to tell them apart
— Mozilla Developer Network’s WebVR — Virtual Reality for the Web
— A-Frame: A web framework for building virtual reality experiences
— How to create VR content for Three.js
— Unity XR resources: Get started developing for XR platforms
— DXR is a toolkit for rapidly prototyping data visualizations in XR (augmented, mixed, and virtual reality)
— The New York Times’ Voyages issue
— Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec’s Dear Data
— High Fidelity Real-time Social VR
— Tuesday
Events:
— The Pecha Kucha for Project 1 will take place during class on Tuesday 10/16
— Instead of class on Thursday, we will attend Data Science Santa Cruz’s Fall Data Science Social on Thursday 10/18 from 11am to 1:30pm in the BSOE courtyard and Simularium (E2-180). Lunch will be provided
— Lisa Nakamura is giving a talk titled Automating Racial Empathy: Virtual Reality and the Undercommons as part of the Visual & Media Cultures Colloquium on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at 4pm in Porter College Room D245
Readings:
— A Systematic Review of Social Presence: Definition, Antecedents, and Implications, Catherine S. Oh, Jeremy Bailenson, and Gregory F. Welch
— Changing Space: Virtual Reality as an Arena of Embodied Being, Char Davies
— Virtual Space, Char Davies
Links:
— Underground Engine VFX studio in Santa Cruz focusing on VR, AR, and interactive video walls
— A daylong workshop on Unity for VR takes place on November 10th at HubX
— A video tutorial introducing Unity for Microsoft MR Headsets is available as part of the Microsoft Mixed Reality Academy
— Char Davies’ Osmose and Ephémère
— The 2018 Information is Beautiful awards
— Károly Zsolnai-Fehér’s Two Minute Papers YouTube channel
— Due to the three-day labor action by AFSCME patient-care workers and their supporters, class will not be held this week
— During Tuesday’s class, I will be available to meet one-on-one to discuss your projects. The lab space will be open for students who want to test their work
— On Thursday, we will particpate in a site-specific sound walk by Yolande Harris at the Walton Lighthouse. We will meet downtown at 11:30am at the entrance to the Museum of Art and History (MAH) and carpool to the Santa Cruz Harbor
— Media archeologist Andres Burbano presents a talk titled “Color, Light, and Language” at the Computational Media Colloquium on Friday, October 26th at 12noon in room E2-475
— VR presentations for Project 1 will take place in E2-258 during classtime on Tuesday 10/30
— Virtual Reality pioneer Jaron Lanier is giving a lecture titled How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It at the UCSC Music Recital Hall on Monday 10/29 at 7pm
— Chaos Theory pioneer Ralph Abraham is discussing relationships between mathematics and computer graphics at HubX on Thursday 11/1 at 7pm
Project:
— Project 2 requires you and one or two classmates to create and document a visual analytics project to support contemporary research by UCSC faculty. Various deliverables are due througout the remainder of the quarter, and your team will give a final presentation on 12/4 or 12/6
Readings:
— Seeking a Better View: Using 3D to Investigate Visibility in Historic Landscapes, Elaine Sullivan
Links:
— How are people making money in VR?, Stephanie Llamas and Charlie Fink
— Spatial.is, AR collaboration platform
— On Tuesday 11/6, Egyptologist and UCSC History professor Elaine A. Sullivan will visit class to introduce her archeological work using VR technologies
Reading:
— Top 10 Unsolved Information Visualization Problems, Chaomei Chen
— The Structure of the Information Visualization Design Space, Stuart K. Card and Jock Mackinlay
— A Multi-Level Typology of Abstract Visualization Tasks, Matthew Brehmer and Tamara Munzner
— A Task Taxonomy for Network Evolution Analysis, Jae-wook Ahn, Catherine Plaisant, and Ben Shneiderman
— On Tuesday 11/13, Weidong Yang, CEO of Kineviz and Founder of Kinetech Arts will visit class to discuss his work on using VR for network analytics and to support the arts
— Student teams present their work-in-progress for Project 2.
— Research contact: Elaine A. Sullivan, UCSC History
— Project leads:
Rehaf Aljammaz,
Beth Oliver,
Abdul Jawad,
and Carinne Knight
— Project Website
Team 2: NeuroCave VR
— Research contact: Olu Ajilore, UIC Psychiatry
— Project leads: Manu Thomas and Ran Xu
— Project Website
Team 3: Genomic Data and Biological Pathway Visualization
— Research contacts: Daniel H. Kim, UCSC Biomolecular Engineering; Angela N. Brooks, UCSC Biomolecular Engineering
— Project leads: Mahika Dubey, Hadiseh Gooranorimi, and Veronica Rivera
— Project Website
Team 4: Behavioral Ecology Visualization
— Research contact: Barry Sinervo, UCSC Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
— Project lead: Jasmine Otto
— Project Write-up, Demo
Team 5: Intergalactic Medium Visual Analytics
— Research contacts: Joseph N. Burchett and J. Xavier Prochaska, UCSC Astronomy & Astrophysics
— Project lead: David Abramov
— Project Website
Team 6: Final Passages Visualization
— Research contact: Gregory O’Malley, UCSC History
— Project leads:
Devi Acharya, Sina Hamedian, Brian Ford, and Sarah Frost
— Project Website