2011 News
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ICT’s MedVR Lab was featured in an article in the latest issue of Training and Simulation Journal that discussed recent innovations in simulation and virtual reality that …
December 19, 2011
A story on Wired’s Danger Room blog covers the multi-center DoD-funded trial that ICT is involved in. The story notes that part of the study will evaluate …
December 13, 2011
A story in the New York Daily News featured the $11 million multi-center trial and collaboration between the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell …
December 12, 2011
$11 Million DOD Grant Funds Study of Virtual Reality and Other Therapies for PTSD Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Recruit Military and Civilian Personnel With PTSD …
December 5, 2011
An article in Science News highlighted the 3D display and 3D teleconferencing systems developed by ICT’s Paul Debevec and colleagues. “At the University of Southern California in …
November 23, 2011
Hunger in Los Angeles, a virtual reality project with real-world impact is scheduled to appear at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, January 19-29, in Park …
November 21, 2011
CNN highlighted SimCoach, a web-based interactive simulation technology project co-led by Skip Rizzo and others at ICT. SimCoach is designed to help veterans and their families find …
November 7, 2011
On Friday, November 4, Romeo Dallaire, a Canadian Senator and retired Lieutenant-General, toured the USC Institute for Creative Technologies as part of a visit to …
November 4, 2011
At a Naval training facility in Newport, R.I., gunner’s mate Jacob Cabrillo, a new junior sailor, sits hunched in his chair, fully outfitted in his …
November 3, 2011
On Friday, November 4, ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will feature the family of a veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injury. Jewel Mine, a …
November 3, 2011
The USC Daily Trojan covered ICT’s virtual patient and how it will be used to train future clinicians through a collaboration with the USC School of Social Work Center for …
November 3, 2011
A Fast Company article about the power of narrative to influence behavior change, covered the recent USC Body Computing Conference and quoted Mark Bolas, associate director of mixed reality at ICT, …
October 24, 2011
Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality, received The Help Group’s Professional Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of virtual reality …
October 20, 2011
The November issue of Army Magazine features two stories about ICT research and prototypes. The first story showcases ICT’s immersive technologies, with a focus on ICT’s …
October 13, 2011
A collaborative virtual reality motor rehabilitation project between ICT and the UCLA Wireless Health Institute that integrates Belinda Lange’s Jewel Mine game with a SMARTglove for upper …
September 29, 2011
Foreign Policy‘s Michael Peck frequently writes about the U.S. military and video games and jumped at the chance to try out the ICT-developed UrbanSim game. After testing …
September 20, 2011
An article in the Autumn 2011 issue of USC Trojan Family Magazine features ICT research and prototypes. Under the headline, Brave New World, the story highlights the futuristic …
September 20, 2011
A paper written by Jason Tsai, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering received the Best …
September 1, 2011
Award allows for continued university-based research and development of interactive media for military training, health therapies and more. Sept.1, 2011 – The Department of Defense …
August 11, 2011
Paul Rosenbloom, professor of computer science at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and project leader at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), received …
August 9, 2011
Soldiers Magazine featured ICT’s efforts combining storytelling and technology to improve Army training. The result has been multiple breakthroughs in virtual reality and emotionally engaging training …
July 13, 2011
A paper, Emotions and Telerehabilitation: Pilot Clinical Trials for Virtual Telerehabilitation Application Using Haptic Device and its Impact on Post Stroke Patients’ Mood and Motivation, by former …
July 12, 2011
A story on NPR’s All Things Considered covered the many ways researchers and others are modifying the Microsoft Kinect. For the story reporter Alex Schmidt spoke to Mark Bolas, …
July 6, 2011
The video game blog Kotaku recently featured Diane Tucker’s Kincect-based game, Mother Nature, under the headline, The Best Kinect Game You Never Heard of (And Maybe the Best of …
June 27, 2011
Congratulations to Joel Jurik and co-authors Andrew Jones, Mark Bolas and Paul Debevec on receiving the best paper award for their paper, “Prototyping a Light …
June 27, 2011
ICT research associate Sin-hwa Kang was given the New Investigator Award at the 16th Annual CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology Conference in Gatineau, Canada. The prize honors a researcher …
June 21, 2011
A segment on the national CBS Evening News told the personal story of 27-year-old former Army Staff Sergeant Jeff Matthews, who is one of 90 soldiers taking …
June 16, 2011
An in-depth story on returning troops suffering from post-traumatic stress featured Skip Rizzo and the virtual reality exposure therapy he developed at ICT. The segment …
June 14, 2011
The Italian publication L’Espresso quoted Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, and discussed advances in creating digital characters for movies in a story …
June 7, 2011
A training and education story in Signal Magazine, featured ICT’s advances in virtual humans research and the ways these characters are being used for military training, movie …
May 31, 2011
An online slideshow in the Huffington Post features what they consider the top nine Kinect Hacks to date. Coming in at number two is ICT’s April Fools …
May 25, 2011
An article in the Boston Globe features ICT’s Ada and Grace, virtual human museum guides in the Boston Museum of Science that were based upon real-life model …
May 24, 2011
The Spring 2011 issue of Viterbi Magazine covers ICT’s move to Playa Vista and the ribbon cutting ceremony held here in October. Read the magazine here.
May 23, 2011
Work by ICT researchers Grace Chen, Emma Tosch, Ron Artstein, Anton Leuski, and David Traum received the Best Paper Award at the 24th Florida Artificial …
April 6, 2011
The Wall Street Journal highlighted technology developed by Skip Rizzo, ICT director of medical virtual reality, which uses virtual reality simulations to help treat Iraq veterans suffering …
April 4, 2011
Continuing coverage of the April 1 video out of Mark Bolas’ MxR Lab here at ICT that turns Google’s Gmail Motion spoof into a working prototype… The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Mashable.com and LA Weekly covered …
April 3, 2011
Evan Suma and the folks in Mark Bolas’ MxR Lab put together this demo illustrating how to make Gmail Motion, Google’s April Fools Day prank, really work. Their video on …
March 31, 2011
Paul Debevec, associate director for graphics research at ICT, has been named a full research professor in the Computer Science department at the USC Viterbi …
March 28, 2011
A story in the Los Angeles Times explains how ICT-developed virtual patients are being used to train clinicians at the USC School of Social Work, which began the nation’s first …
March 24, 2011
Congrats to ICT’s VIGOR team on their 2nd place win in the Patterns of Life category of the Federal Virtual World Challenge. ICT’s Jacki Morie, …
March 24, 2011
A paper from Evan Suma, David Krum and Mark Bolas of ICT’s MxR lab received the Best Tech-Note Award at the IEEE Symposium on 3D User …
March 16, 2011
The Computer Science Department of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering appointed Morteza Dehghani and David DeVault to research assistant professor positions. Dehghani works as …
February 9, 2011
An article on the films nominated for best visual effects at this year’s Academy Awards focused on the visual effects supervisors’ use of high dynamic …
February 3, 2011
ICT offers select interdisciplinary paid internships for creative and technical students wishing to pursue careers in simulation, interactive media and virtual reality fields. ICT’s mission …
February 3, 2011
ICT’s Patrick Kenny and Thomas Parsons received a best paper award at the I/ITSEC 2010 Conference in Orlando, Florida. Their paper, Emerging Concepts and Innovative Technologies: …
February 3, 2011
Federal News Radio featured ICT’s virtual reality simulations to help treat Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “By confronting the traumatic memories …
January 26, 2011
The January 25, 2011 DoD Blogger’s Roundtable featured Skip Rizzo, ICT’s director of medical virtual reality, talking about how virtual reality applications are being designed and implemented …
January 20, 2011
Continuing on their previous work using gestures to play World of Warcraft, ICT researchers have developed a new software, using the OpenNI toolkit as a foundation, which utilizes …
January 17, 2011
Voice of America reporter Mike O’Sullivan spent some time with our mixed reality and medical VR folks and put together a widely-distributed story and video on …
January 3, 2011
So much for talking the holiday week off. ICT’s Evan Suma has been busy fielding calls and emails about his new FAAST toolkit which facilitates integration of …