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PTSD Treatment Features
Earlier this week, a reporter was escorted down an Iraqi street during the morning call to prayer. There was a marketplace to the right, nondescript buildings down the road and a few pedestrians milling about.…
Nightline Reports on Virtual Reality Therapy
Nightline covered an Irap war veteran using Virtual Iraq at Emory University on its June 7, 2007 show.
Keeping Virtual Real
For someone who lives only in a computer, Sgt. John Blackwell sure gets around.
Blackwell is the walking, talking showcase for virtual human research at USC’s Institute for Creative…
Marine Corps Using ICT Flatworld Technologies
Chief of Naval Research Rear Admiral William E. Landay III has announced the funding of a $1.3-million “Tech Solutions” project to deliver advanced infantry immersive training to Marines. This project will field two systems by…
ICT Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses research work at the ICT designed to “create the next generation of training technology.” The piece includes rather extensive overviews of Flatword (a marriage…
New ICT Creative Director
Marina del Rey, CA (January 29, 2007) – Today Randall Hill, Executive Director of the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), announced that it was furthering its already strong relationship with the…
Virtual War, Real Healing
Los Angeles Times front page article covering ICT research on using virtual environments for treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Award Winning Papers
Researchers from the ICT attended the International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE’06). Mark Riedl demoed Automated Story Director and presented two papers on the Automated Story Director project. One of…
C3IT in Forbes
Forbes.com has an article featuring ICT’s Cultural & Cognitive Combat Immersive Trainer (C3IT). The system was demonstrated at this weeks Army Science Conference.
The Latest Sgt. Blackwell Trailer
Sgt. Blackwell is a manifestation of ICT’s work in the area of virtual humans. You can take a look at the latest trailer showing some of the capabilities of the systems.
Paper on Interactive Comics Wins Award
ICT Researcher Andrew Gordon’s paper entitled: “Fourth Frame Forums: Interactive Comics for Collaborative Learning” was awarded “Best Technical Short Paper” at the 14th International ACM Conference on Multimedia, Oct 23-27 2006, in Santa Barbara, CA.…
New ICT Executive Director
Marina del Rey, California—October 9, 2006—The USC Provost announced the selection of a distinguished artificial intelligence researcher and former U.S. Army officer to lead Institute for Creative Technologies.
Randall W. Hill, Jr. has…
NBC 4 overview of ICT
NBC 4 news visits ICT with highlights on Flatworld and SLIM ES3.
Summer Intern Program
15 students from Francisco Bravo High School in Los Angeles are part of the very first Army-funded, two-week internship for high school students at the Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina del Rey designed to…
Treating Trauma with Games
For soldiers struggling with memories of their combat time in Iraq, USC Centers for Creative Technologies psychologist Skip Rizzo has concocted an unusual prescription: a video game. Since last year, Rizzo has been developing a…
Wired Magazine coverage of Virtual Iraq
The August 2006 issue of Wired has an article about ICT’s Virtual Iraq.
The Smell of War
I’m Army, Special Operations. My mission: to sneak up on a rebel training camp. If the intelligence is right—if the place is being operated by the enemy Tiger Brigade—then I’m supposed to plant a radio…
Apollo tours Sill
Actor/producer Carl Weathers, best known for his portrayal of boxer Apollo Creed in the first four “Rocky” movies, toured the Joint Fires and Effects Trainer System at Fort Sill along with other USC ICT creative…
Serious Games
Saving the world—one game at a time.
Some may scoff at the notion, but while gaming news in recent weeks has been bombarded with talk of legislation or hearings on violence against the…
ICT wins modeling and simulation award from DOD
A USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) product has received the Modeling and Simulation Award for Training from the Department of Defense the highest honor for simulation applications. The ”Self-Directed…
A look at the changing National Training Center, by Brigadier General Robert W. Cone, U.S. Army. ICT has been very involved in adding realism their existing training through an enhancement program, bringing Hollywood talent to… USC CCT technologies at work. A soldier in a Humvee scoots across the desert, warily eyeing the vast, empty plain. A fire appears on the horizon, driving smoke high into the sky. The soldier is… FORT IRWIN, Calif. - Three years into the conflict in Iraq, the front line in the American drive to prepare troops for insurgent warfare runs through a cluster of mock Iraqi villages deep in the… ICT research into virtual reality therapy (Skip Rizzo’s group based on work by Jarrell Pair) is featured on the nVidia site.
One blistering afternoon in Iraq, while fighting insurgents in the northern town of Mosul, Sgt. Sinque Swales opened fire with his .50-cal. That was only the second time, he says, that he ever shot an… Presented on the first day of Serious Games Summit 2005, this fascinating session explained some of the work carried out by the University of Southern California-connected Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), a university-affiliated research center… A new, high-tech system designed to treat military veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder—or PTSD—may be familiar to fans of a squad-based combat video game. Using components from the popular game Full Spectrum… Dr. Randy Hill’s promotion comes as the institute restructures to move technology to the market.
ICT’s JFETS work at Fort Sill, Oklahoma - a multi-sensory platform in which future soldiers will train for battle - is the focus of the article “The War Room” in Wired Magazine. The hard copy… The Parthenon, the ICT graphics lab’s computer animation that features photoreal models of the Parthenon and its sculptures, premiered at the SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater. The film showcased novel research techniques in… The Scent Collar, developed by ICT and AnthroTronix, was featured at the SIGGRAPH 2004 Cyber Fashion show with the tag line: The Ultimate in Cyber Diva Chic Couture. Its use as a means of augmenting… In the August 19th issue of Rolling Stone, ICT was featured under the section “Hot Geeks.” The following is an excerpt from that article. "ICT attracted an unlikely array of Hollywood talent, from Paul Debevec,… Nowhere to Hide, a short film created by ICT’s Concept Development & Visualization team for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, PM Unit of Action Technologies, won First Place in the Training & Education category… Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge describes an innovative methodology for investigating the conceptual structures that underlie human reasoning. This work explores the nature of planning strategies--the abstract patterns of planning behavior that people… Pentagon increasingly works with video games industry - modbee.com.
Negotiations over Tasks in Hybrid Human-Agent Teams for Simulation-Based Training by David Traum, Jeff Rickel, Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella received the Best Innovative System/Application Paper Award at the AAMAS conference in Melbourne Australia.… Full Spectrum Warrior, the US Army squad-level X-Box training aid set to be published by Los Angeles publisher THQ, was previewed for the public at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Exposition, May 13-16. The definitive gamers’… In the Washington Post article, “Thinking Outside the Tank”, Sharon Waxman writes about how the Institute for Creative Technologies “puts Tinseltown Talent to work on military defense.”
Members of ICT published “FlatWorld: Combining Hollywood Set-Design Techniques with VR.”
Forbes wrote about ICT in an article titled, “A Few Good Toys, The U.S. Army has some imaginative ways to annihilate the Saddams of the future.”
Jay Douglas, Diane Piepol, Jarrell Pair and Jacki Morie are part of an invited panel "Gaming and role play in VR and Augmented Reality" at SCI2002 (Sixth World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics). July… Andrew S. Gordon is giving a talk at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Aug 7-10, 2002 at George Mason University, entitled: "The Theory of Mind in Strategy Representations".
SIGGRAPH 2002 Presentations July 21-26, 2002, San Antonio, Texas Paul Debevec is giving a course, “Image-Based Lighting.” Paul Debevec speaking in a course, Read More » Jacquelyn Ford Morie has been elected to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Council. She will serve a two year term as a Director-at-Large.
The buzz is Buzz: Buzz Aldrin and the Aerospace Commission visits the ICT.
"Dots" the face!
Richard Saul Wurman’s 1000 : Who’s Really Who, Richard Saul Wurman’s 1000 Most Creative Individuals in the USA lists Jacki Morie and William Swartout from ICT.
Paul Debevec receives an Innovator award from MIT’s Technology Review (2002).
Flatworld Ribbon Cutting
Read about ICT in the New York Times article, “Bringing Hollywood Pizazz to Military Training.”
The Changing National Training Center
Control a car with your thoughts—it’s therapeutic
Training in Mock Iraq
ICT Virtual Reality Therapy featured on nVidia site
ICT’s Full Spectrum Warrior: Virtual Reality Prepares Soldiers for Real War
ICT at Serious Games Summit: a review
Virtual Reality Therapy for Combat Stress
ICT Appoints Lunceford Chief Technology Advisor
ICT in OK and WIRED
The Parthenon Premiered At SIGGRAPH 2004 Electronic Theater
Scent Your Senses: The SEE Project’s Scent Collar a big hit at SIGGRAPH!
ICT Featured In Rolling Stone Magazine
CD/V Production Wins US International Film Festival “Golden Camera”
Dr. Andrew S. Gordon publishes his first book
Pentagon Increasing Works with Video Game Industry
USC wins another prestigious award
ICT’s new Army training aid wins Best Original Game and Best Simulation Game @ E3
ICT puts Tinseltown talent to work on military defense
FlatWorld: Combining Hollywood Set-Design Techniques with VR
US Army technological advances
ICT part of an invited panel “Gaming and role play in VR and Augmented Reality” at SCI2002
Andrew S. Gordon is giving a talk at the 24th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Siggraph 2002 Presentations
Jacquelyn Ford Morie has been elected to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Council
Buzz Aldrin and the Aerospace Commission visits the ICT
Graphics Lab experiment
Jacki Morie and William Swartout in the “1000 most creative individuals in the USA” list
Paul Debevec receives an Innovator award from MIT’s Technology Review
Flatworld Ribbon Cutting
Bringing Hollywood Pizazz to Military Training