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Voice of America Covers ICT
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 our efforts to use immersive systems to…
World of Warcraft Kinect YouTube Video Gets Over One Million Views and Much Press Coverage
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 full-body control with games and VR…
LA Times, Slashdot, Intl Business Times Cover ICT’s World of Warcraft Video & Tool for Games/VR
FAAST, a new toolkit that facilitates integration of full-body control with games and VR applications, was covered in the Los Angeles Times technology blog, on the tech blog,
Watch YouTube Video Showcasing ICT-Tools to Play World of Warcraft with Microsoft Kinect
A video featuring FAAST, a new toolkit that facilitates integration of full-body control with games and VR applications, has been widely viewed on YouTube. The video shows FAAST creator…
ICT and USC School of Social Work To Demo Virtual Reality Educational Technologies at CES
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Dotty Diemer, DDK Communications
562.212.6014, dotty@ddk-communications.com
Cindy Monticue, USC School of Social Work
213.740.2021, monticue@usc.edu
Orli Belman, USC Institute…
Army Times Covers ICT Games on Army Games Portal
An article featured the Army’s release of ICT-developed games UrbanSim and ELECT BiLAT on the Army’s gaming portal, MilGaming. The story states that Soldiers can expect to spend more time playing games as…
ICT Virtual Museum Guides Featured in the Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee featured Ada and Grace, two virtual humans ICT created in collaboration with the Boston Museum of Science. The characters were based on real life model Bianca Rodriguez, who focus groups selected to…
ICT’s Skip Rizzo Discusses Approaches to Dealing with Trauma Memories on National Public Radio
Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality, appeared on local NPR affiliate KPCC’s Pat Morrison Show to discuss different approaches to address how best to help people deal with trauma memories. Rizzo spoke…
ICT’s Skip Rizzo and Virtual Reality Therapy Featured on Defense Talk
An article by Army News covered a recent panel discussion about the latest treatments for PTSD at the 27th Army Science Conference which included Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality. “VR is…
AOL News Features Virtual Afghanistan Treatment for PTSD
Virtual Afghanistan, a virtual reality exposure therapy developed at ICT for the treatment of soldiers suffering from PTSD was featured in a story on AOL News. The therapy, an adaptation of ICT’s Virtual Iraq system,…
ICT Technologies and Randy Hill on NBC News Orlando
In a story about virtual reality technologies being demonstrated at the 27th Army Science Conference, WESH, the NBC News affiliate in Orlando, Florida featured ICT Executive Director Randall W. Hill, Jr. and some of the…
Defense Systems Covers UrbanSim’s Transition to Army’s MilGaming Portal
An article in Defense Systems covers ICT’s UrbanSim counter-insurgency trainer and explains that the application will be available for download through the Army’s MilGaming portal, which features virtual training applications…
ICT in the New York Times
Several ICT researchers and research projects were featured in a New York Times story that states that advances in artificial intelligence and computer modeling are allowing therapists to take on a wider array of complex…
ICT on Engadget
An article about ICT research was featured on Engadget today. The article focused on our history and move to Playa Vista and on the innovative work ICT makes. An excerpt from the article…
ICT Virtual Humans Research in New Scientist Magazine
An article about ICT research creating believable virtual human characters for the military to use in cultural and negotiation training applications appears in New Scientist magazine and on their website. The…
Paul Debevec on the Cover of UC Berkeley’s Forefront Magazine
Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, was featured as the cover story of the Fall 2010 UC Berekely Forefront magazine. Debevec earned his Ph.D at Berkeley and has gone on to make significant…
Los Angeles Times Covers ICT Technologies and New Building
An article, blog post and photo gallery in the Los Angeles Times cover much of ICT’s newest video game and virtual human technologies. The article focused…
ICT Celebrates Move to New Building and 10 Years of Work
On Thursday October 28, USC President C.L. Max Nikias, the USC marching band and special guests from the military, state, city and entertainment industry joined ICT Executive Director Randall W. Hill Jr. in a ribbon…
Press Release for ICT’s Grand Opening and Ten Year Anniversary
Contact: Orli Belman
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
310 301-5006, 310 709-4156
belman@ict.usc.edu
Bringing the Holodeck to Life – USC Institute for Creative Technologies Marks…
ICT’s Virtual Iraq and Virtual Patients Featured on NBC and CBS News in Portland
ICT virtual technologies being used to train mental health clinicians and treat patients suffering from mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress were highlighted in segments on the local CBS and NBC affiliates in Portland, Oregon.…
ICT Contributions to the Future Immersive Training Enviromnent Featured on ABC News San Diego
ICT’s Julia Kim was interviewed in a story about the U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Future Immersive Training Environment (FITE), a virtual reality-based training system to improve team decision-making skills through realistic scenarios that is being…
ICT Virtual Patient and Researchers to Speak at USC’s Body Computing Conference
ICT’s Virtual Patient, along with Medical Virtual Reality Associate Director Skip Rizzo and Computer Scientist Patrick Kenny, will be giving a glimpse into how virtual reality can impact the future of healthcare at the
ICT Develops Virtual Human Role Players for New Military Training Prototype
The U.S. Joint Forces Command posted an article about the Future Immersive Training Environment (FITE), a new virtual reality-based training system to improve team decision-making skills through realistic scenarios that has been…
Barbara Boxer Visits USC in Support of Military Mental Health, Sees Virtual Patient Demo
U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer visited the USC School of Social Work today to see a demonstration of the virtual patient project, a collaboration between the school’s Center on Innovation and Research on Veterans and Military…
Training and Simulation Journal Features Q and A with Randy Hill
Randy Hill, executive director of ICT, was interviewed by Michael Peck, U.S editor for Training and Simulation Journal. The Q and A with Randy was part of a regular series…
Live Science Features ICT’s Virtual Reality Work in PTSD
Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality, was quoted in a Live Science article exploring whether virtual reality depictions based on real-life combat experiences could help prepare recruits before deployment,…
American Psychological Association Honors Outstanding Work of ICT’s Skip Rizzo and Collaborators
Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality, received the 2010 Award for Outstanding Contributions in Trauma Psychology from the American Psychological Association’s Division 56, psychology’s focal point for research, practice and education on…
Morteza Dehghani Joins the ICT Emotion Group - Read about his Work in Scientific American
We welcome Morteza Dehghani, who has has joined ICT as a research staff scientist working with Jon Gratch and Stacy Marsella in the Emotion Group.
Dehghani has an interdisciplinary background. He…
Paul Debevec in AP Story about New 3-D Technologies
ICT’s Paul Debevec was quoted in an Associated Press article about innovations in 3-D technologies. Many of the latest advances in 3-D were on display at the recent Siggraph conference in Los Angeles. Debevec spoke…
Skip Rizzo’s TEDx USC Talk Now Online
ICT’s Skip Rizzo spoke at this year’s TEDx USC conference and was introduced by Dean Marilyn Flynn of the USC School of Social Work. Video of their talk is now available for viewing on the…
MCIT Marks One Year and Over 15,000 Trained
Portable interactive system helps troops address improvised explosive devices - the most lethal element of combat today. Successful collaboration credited for rapid development and deployment of high volume trainer.
It has been…
Counter-IED Training in the News
Two recent stories featured the Mobile Counter-IED Interactive Trainer, or MCIT.
An article in Defense News describes the underlying philosophy of thinking like an insurgent…
We’ve Moved!
We’ve said good-bye to our Marina del Rey offices and getting ready to relocate to our new home in nearby Playa Vista. See pictures of our new place on our Facebook page…
ICT’s Mark Bolas in The Christian Science Monitor
After last week’s E3 conference, The Christian Science Monitor wrote an article about gesture control and gesture research. They spoke to ICT’s Mark Bolas to learn about emerging technologies in the field. …
ICT’s Virtual Patient on ABC News
ABC News’ aired a story about ICT’s virtual patients during its “Tech Bytes” segment. ICT and the USC School of Social Work created virtual patients, which will be used to help train future social workers…
ICT Science and Technology in Miller-McCune
Miller-McCune magazine featured a comprehensive story about ICT research and applications. The story describes ICT’s personnel as, “teams of computer scientists, graphics visionaries, artificial-intelligence wizards, social-science experts, digital game makers and Hollywood storytellers…
Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Visits USC
Admiral Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the principal military advisor to the president, the secretary of defense, the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council, visited the USC School…
Paul Debevec and ICT’s Light Stage Technology in the Economist
An article in the Economist Magazine highlighted the facial rendering system developed by Paul Debevec and colleagues. The process, used to create digital faces in such films as “Spider-Man 2,” produces results…
ICT’s Jacki Morie Named Director-at-Large of ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee
The results are in! ICT’s Jacki Morie has once again been elected to the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee as Director-at-Large. Morie hopes to continue steering the organization into a rich future. Morie will serve on…
Fast Company Features ICT Virtual Patients
An article on the Fast Company website showcased Lt. Rocco, an ICT-developed virtual patient, who is among the virtual human characters being developed to help train clinicians in treating and diagnosing mental illness in returning…
ICT Researchers Earn Best Paper Award
Lixing Huang, Louis-Phillippe Morency and Jon Gratch received the Best Virtual Agents Paper Award at the AAMAS Conference for their paper, Parasocial Consensus Sampling: Combining Multiple Perspectives to Learn Virtual Human Behavior.
Another…
Sydney Morning Herald Covers ICT Virtual Reality Therapy and Games
An article in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald featured ICT virtual therapies and games developed by Skip Rizzo that are used to treat PTSD in soldiers as well as distract children from painful medical treatments.
Trojan Family Magazine Covers ICT
Three stories in the spring 2010 issue of Trojan Family Magazine cover aspects of ICT’s work. One article covers the ICT’s Virtual Patient and Virtual Iraq technologies that will be part of the new USC…
Stacy Marsella and Jon Gratch Receive Research Award, Give Invited Talk at AAMAS
Jon Gratch and Stacy Marsella were recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM/SIGART) with the 2010 Autonomous Agents Research Award, an annual award for excellence for researchers influencing…
Students Look Back on Their Day at ICT
On a Saturday in March, a group of Los Angeles area youth visited ICT to learn about the careers that can come from a solid understanding of math, science and engineering concepts. ICT researchers demonstrated…
Recent UrbanSim Coverage from Around the Web
Several gaming sites have taken notice of ICT’s UrbanSim game for practicing stability and counterinsurgency operations. Here are some links to their stories.
Game Blog Kokatu.com’s story
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Army Hopeful About Virtual Reality for Treating Post Traumatic Stress
An article by the Army News Service covered an Army study of ICT’s virtual reality system for treating post traumatic stress.
The story stated that, the Defense Department’s Centers of Excellence for Psychological…
Paul Debevec Wins Viterbi Award
In their annual award ceremony, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering honored Paul Debevec, ICT associate director for graphics research and a research associate professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, with an award…
TEDxUSC Showcases ICT Innovations
Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality was one of the featured presenters at the 2010 TEDxUSC event. Rizzo demonstrated his virtual reality therapy designed to treat post traumatic stress in soldiers and…
San Diego Union Tribune Covers ICT Technologies Helping Make Decisions Under Stress
A story about the the Marine Corps Infantry Immersive Trainer at Camp Pendleton noted that the mixed-reality training facility was built on years of research by the Navy and software development by the…
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