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BRAVEMIND Featured in American Essence Magazine
Innovative VR therapy from USC ICT supports veterans on their journey to healing In the July–August 2025 issue of American Essence, a moving...
How the Built Environment Shapes Responses in High-Pressure Scenarios
What if the design of a space could help people respond more effectively in an emergency? That’s the question guiding new interdisciplinary research...
How Language Models Form Social Impressions (and what that reveals)
By Ala N. Tak, PhD Candidate, Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Assistant, Affective Computing Group, ICT My recent paper,...
Inside ICT’s 2025 Summer Internship Program: Innovation Meets Immersion
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr., Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media),...
Advancing Human-Computer Interaction Research at ICT (and SIGGRAPH 2025 Recognition)
Mark Harmon is a Software Developer at the UBC Emerging Media Lab, University of British Columbia and spending the summer at ICT as part of our...
Embodied Companion AI Agents & Society
Spencer Lin is an AI & XR researcher/developer at ICT, with a passion for building embodied socially interactive AI agents. He holds both...
Lighting Precision: Building the Next Light Stage
By Stanley Lin, Cinematographer, Imaging Researcher (volunteering at the Vision & Graphics Lab on our next Light Stage) When I first visited the...
Bridging Engineering and Medicine: Improving Health Outcomes Through Wearable Technology
Aleena Imran is a dual-degree graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering from USC, and was Commencement Speaker for...
Thank You, Lila Brooks, for Your Leadership and Service to ICT
By Dr. Randall W. Hill, Jr, Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media),...