Recent News
Sort news by year:June 10, 2013
Mark Bolas was quoted in a story about Oculus founder and former ICT staff member Palmer Luckey. The story notes that Bolas hired Luckey to …
June 5, 2013
A Wall Street Journal video story examined whether virtual reality experiences can impact real world behaviors. The report highlighted some research projects out of Stanford …
May 28, 2013
A BBC story featured ICT’s SimSensei project and highlighted how the institute’s is leading the way in the creation of virtual humans that can produce …
May 21, 2013
A story by NPR’s mental health reporter Alix Spiegel covered ICT’s SimSensei project and research led by Skip Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency to develop a …
May 15, 2013
An article and video about Andrew Gordon’s neurobiology of narrative framing work, being done in collaboration with USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute, is showcased in …
May 15, 2013
Bill Swartout, ICT’s director of technology, is featured in Faces of Malibu, a series that showcases Malibu residents with a painted portrait and an interview. …
May 2, 2013
Congratulations to co-lead authors Stefan Scherer and Giota Stratou, along with Jill Boberg, Jonathan Gratch, Skip Rizzo and Louis-Philippe Morency. This ICT team of received …
May 2, 2013
Tune into The Next List on CNN, Saturday, May 4 at 11:30 am PST/ 2:30 pm EST. This week’s episode features ICT’s Skip Rizzo and …
April 30, 2013
Forbes features a Q and A with Jacki Morie, a senior scientist at ICT who studies virtual worlds and how people use them. The article …
April 29, 2013
An article in Nature covering new guidance for U.S. internet research highlighted Andrew Gordon’s work studying millions of personal stories found on blogs. Gordon’s research …
April 26, 2013
Paying tribute to the wide range of intellectual and leadership achievements of the past year, the 32nd annual Academic Honors Convocation was held on April …
April 25, 2013
Army AL&T Magazine highlighted ICT achievements in increasing quality and bringing down costs of head mounted displays (HMD) for virtual reality experiences. The article focused …
April 24, 2013
Conducting interviews with children who have witnessed a crime or have been victims of abuse or neglect represents some of the most challenging and sensitive …
April 23, 2013
An article on PBS Media Shift highlighted ICT’s work in creating effective virtual reality health coaches, including SimSensei and SimCoach. The story notes how the …
April 22, 2013
Writer Katie Drummond wrote an article on The Verge about the Oculus Rift’s impact on virtual reality therapy and focused on ICT’s Skip Rizzo and …
April 18, 2013
Articles in Phys.Org, ACM Tech News and New Scientist covered the virtual reality walking research of Evan Suma and Mark Bolas. The stories noted recent …
April 8, 2013
The NPR program “Here and Now” covered ICT’s New Dimensions in Testimony project, a collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation to record and display Holocaust …
April 7, 2013
A segment on Game Trailers, NextTech features Paul Debevec and his work creating realistic digital doubles. The segment includes some images of ICT’s collaboration with …
April 4, 2013
CNET, Mashable and Discovery Canada featured research from ICT’s MultiComp Lab that automatically tracks and analyzes in real-time facial expressions, body posture, acoustic features, linguistic …
April 3, 2013
Writing in TIME, Army psychiatrist Artin Terhakopian lauds ICT’s virtual reality therapy for treating PTSD as having, “the potential to reach the thousands of patients …
April 3, 2013
Telepresence experiment studies how interview subjects in Spain will respond to questions posed by a robot being operated in LA Who/What: Researcher Nonny de la …
April 1, 2013
A story by tech reporter Rich DeMuro featured ICT work that was on display at the USC GLIMPSE Digital Technology Showcase. ICT’s Paul Debevec, David …
March 31, 2013
An article in the USC Daily Trojan highlighted Belinda Lange and her work developing video games that can be used for physical therapy. The article …
March 29, 2013
Two articles highlight research from ICT’s MultiComp Lab that automatically tracks and analyzes in real-time facial expressions, body posture, acoustic features, linguistic patterns and other …
March 28, 2013
ICT’s Graphics Lab’s high profile Digital Ira work advancing the ability to create real-time, photo-real faces was featured in this CNN/Fortune Magazine story, as well …
March 28, 2013
Columnist Edmon Rodman wrote about this ICT collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation. Rodman’s wire-service story ran in the Arizona Jewish Post and elsewhere. Rodman …
March 27, 2013
The BBC News covered the ICT Graphics Lab’s advances in creating realistic digital doubles. The story included the ICT collaborations, Digital Emily and New Dimensions …
March 25, 2013
Voice of America reporter Elizabeth Lee visited ICT and produced this story about current and future work in the ICT Graphics Lab. Paul Debevec was …
March 21, 2013
Does this guy look familiar? Check out ICT’s own Ari Shapiro rendered in real-time as Digital Ira by the team at ICT’s Graphics Lab using …
March 21, 2013
In an opinon piece on the Huffington Post Paul Rosebloom, a project director at ICT, makes the case that computer science deserves more respect. Rosenbloom, …
March 20, 2013
The do-it-yourself (DIY) demonstration was part of the MxR Lab’s push to disrupt the virtual reality marketplace by making low-cost, high quality virtual reality (VR) …
March 20, 2013
David Krum, co-director of ICT’s Mixed Reality Lab, spoke to MIT’s Technology Review for a story about 3-D display technology. Krum said that many computer …
March 19, 2013
The current issue of Psychiatric Annals features a summary of ICT-developed virtual reality applications that are being designed and implemented across various points in the …
March 18, 2013
The web magazine Engadget posted a story about the launch of the MxR Lab’s new DIY website. The site showcases do-it-yourself virtual reality creations, modifications …
March 14, 2013
ICT research scientist Belinda Lange specializes in developing game-based systems for people with neurological or physical injuries. Lange and her team created a state-of-the-art video …
March 12, 2013
The current issue PEO STRI newsletter, Inside STRI, features an article about BiLAT and BiLAT AIDE, the ICT-developed video game and primer, designed to help …
February 19, 2013
The open source designs of the MxR Lab at ICT are featured today in a New York Times article on the Oculus Rift. The article …
February 13, 2013
On Feb. 1, one of USC’s most decorated faculty members received the highest honor bestowed by the United States for scientific innovation. President Barack Obama …
February 12, 2013
CNET featured ICT’s New Dimensions in Testimony project, a collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation to record and display Holocaust survivors’ testimony in a way that …
February 4, 2013
An Associated Press article, carried in the Washington Post and other papers throughout the country, featured ICT’s New Dimensions in Testimony project, a collaboration with …
January 29, 2013
A story in Defense News covers ICT’s development of a laptop version of the Emergent Leader Immersive Training Environment (ELITE), which targets leadership and basic …
January 25, 2013
Set your DVR! CNN’s Next List is devoting an entire segment to ICT’s Skip Rizzo and his work using virtual reality to treat and prevent …
January 24, 2013
An article in the December 2012 issue of Jane’s International Defense Review covered U.S. military efforts at cultural awareness training and highlighted ICT-developed prototypes in …
January 23, 2013
An essay in Poets and Writers Magazine explores the importance and meaning of stories. The author highlights Andrew Gordon’s research collecting personal stories from blogs …
January 22, 2013
Ari Shapiro leads the development of ICT’s SmartBody application, an animation system for 3-D games that synchronizes speech, gesturing and facial and body motion, particularly …
January 16, 2013
By Julia Kim Reason #27 that one should mingle at office social events: you learn that your colleague is writing a book to totally change …
January 15, 2013
When Paul Rosenbloom became the director of New Directions at USC’s Information Sciences Institute 15 years ago, he helped apply timely computing to a diverse …
January 3, 2013
Clarke Lethin, ICT’s managing director, received the Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award recognizing his exceptional performance of duties while assigned as the …
January 1, 2013
Defense News covered mobile learning applications in two recent articles. Todd Richmond, director of advanced prototype development and transition at ICT, was quoted in both …
December 17, 2012
Palmer Luckey, who was part of the ICT’s MxR Lab , was named one of the brightest young stars in video games by Forbes. Luckey …
December 15, 2012
Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, earned a credit in the recently released Hobbit film for his visiting researcher work at Weta Digital …
December 12, 2012
A Training and Simulation Journal article highlighted ICT research and development efforts to create avatars that mirror their real world counterparts. Stating that more realistic …
December 11, 2012
Paul Rosenbloom has once again been honored with a Kurzweil Prize at the annual Artificial General Intelligence Conference (AGI). This year, Rosenbloom, a computer science …
December 6, 2012
A story in the December issue of Discover magazine covers ICT’s SimCoach and SimSensei projects, which are both designed to leverage anonymous virtual human technologies …
December 1, 2012
Mark Bolas, ICT’s associate director for mixed reality research and development, was quoted in an Orange County story about virtual reality headsets that featured the …
November 30, 2012
Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for medical virtual reality, spoke about using virtual reality as a tool for treating PTSD and for preparing soldiers for …
November 29, 2012
ICT research scientist H. Chad Lane was featured in a Riverside Press-Enterprise story looking at whether video games can be effective teaching tools. “That’s like …
November 28, 2012
The Tech Report, a nationally broadcast television segment from KTLA’s Rich Dimuro, featured the visual effects innovations made possible with the Light Stage technology from …
November 19, 2012
The first review of On Computing by ICT’s Paul Rosenbloom has just come out. In Nature 491, 331 (15 November 2012) the reviewer, John Gilbey, writes, “On Computing is an …
November 18, 2012
Ari Shapiro and his co-authors Yuyu Xu and Andrew Feng won the Best Paper Award at the Fifth International Conference on Motion in Games in …
November 17, 2012
The Economist featured work by Skip Rizzo and Galen Buckwalter of USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. The story noted that virtual reality therapy is being used to help …
November 17, 2012
Mark Bolas, ICT’s associate director for mixed reality research and development, was quoted in an Associated Press article about Nintendo’s new Wii U GamePad. “It’s …
November 16, 2012
Paul Debevec, the associate director for graphics research at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies and a research professor at the USC Viterbi School of …
November 13, 2012
ICT research designed to offer health care support was featured in a USC Viterbi Veteran’s Day story. The article highlighted SimSensei, a virtual human collaboration …
November 1, 2012
The USC Institute for Creative Technologies has been selected to receive a grant from the Infinite Hero Foundation, a non-profit group devoted to funding programs …
October 23, 2012
Mark Bolas, director of ICT’s Mixed Reality Lab and an associate professor in the USC School of Cinematic Arts, was quoted in a MIT Technology …
September 17, 2012
The cover story in the September issue of the American Society for Engineering’s Prism Magazine, features Paul Debevec and ICT’s Light Stage technology in an …
September 17, 2012
In their weekly podcast, FX Guide interviewed Abhijeet Ghosh from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies Graphics Lab about a range of issues relating to …
September 12, 2012
A story in Defense News covered the use of video games for counter-IED training. ICT’s Todd Richmond was quoted in the story, which cited the …
September 10, 2012
ICT’s Jacquelyn Ford Morie, and her avatars in Second Life, were featured in a Scientific American story about the online avatars and what they represent. …
September 4, 2012
Division 46 of the American Psychological Association highlighted the work of ICT research scientist H. Chad Lane, who heads up ICT’s Learning Sciences group. In …
August 27, 2012
Jacquelyn Ford Morie, a senior research scientist at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), has been named to the Information Science …
August 23, 2012
The August issue of NCO Journal, the professional development magazine for U.S. Army non-commissioned officers, featured several stories about ICT, with an emphasis on how …
August 15, 2012
New research from the ICT Graphics Lab was featured on Click, a BBC World Service technology podcast and on fxguide, a leading outlet covering the …
August 9, 2012
A story in Fast Company covered Louis-Philippe Morency’s work studying YouTube videos. The article states that this work has the potential to advance the growing …
August 5, 2012
Portable virtual reality device from the MxR Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies brings 3-D Martian landscape to your iPhone or Android. Contact: …
August 4, 2012
Reporter Rich Demuro of KTLA’s Tech Report visited ICT and filed this story about how ICT combines Hollywood talent and tech know-how to improve training …
August 3, 2012
LiveScience featured research from ICT’s Skip Rizzo virtual patient work, involving training therapists to deal with traumatized veterans. Psychiatry residents use interactive programs to learn …
August 2, 2012
Only a couple hours after launching, former ICT MxR Lab employee, Palmer Lucky, surpassed his $250,000 goal. A day after going live, Palmer Lucky’s Kickstarter …
July 18, 2012
ICT Researcher Giving YouTube Views a Whole New Meaning Computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency is analyzing online videos to capture the nuances of how people communicate …
July 17, 2012
As part of their summer training program, West Point Cadets are going through the Mobile Counter-IED Trainer, which includes a video game to assist troops …
July 2, 2012
CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman stopped at ICT on his West Coast road trip to see how we are using virtual humans and virtual reality to …
June 18, 2012
An episode of the TNT Series, “Rizzoli and Isles“, features a dramatic depiction of ICT’s Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan PTSD Exposure Therapy system appearing as part of …
June 15, 2012
U.S Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno visited the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) on Tuesday, June 12 to see demonstrations …
June 12, 2012
A story in Defense News covers efforts to use virtual reality and other technologies to address mental health issues and barriers to care faced by …
May 30, 2012
Fx Guide posted an interview and video of Paul Debevec, ICT’s associate director for graphics research, discussing the Light Stage systems he developed. The coverage …
May 29, 2012
NBC News featured a story on ICT’s virtual therapy for treating and detecting PTSD. Skip Rizzo and Galen Buckwalter were interviewed in the segment. View …
May 28, 2012
The Benning Report, a video news program produced at Ft. Benning, showcased ICT’s ELITE trainer in a recent segment. It begins at 16:22 in the …
May 25, 2012
ICT’s SimCoach, a new way to help Veterans and their families find expert help and support for PTSD is now live on the BraveHeart website.
May 23, 2012
A story in New Scientist featured preliminary results of a Navy study that found that virtual reality exposure therapy, including ICT’s Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan, helped post-traumatic …
May 16, 2012
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covered Canada’s decision to begin using the ICT’s virtual reality exposure therapy for treating PTSD. Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate director for …
May 14, 2012
Watch Talk Nerdy to Me on the Huffington Post, and learn how Paul Debevec and his team at the ICT Graphics Lab create digital doubles – including a copy of Huff Post science correspondent Cara Santa Maria.
May 7, 2012
Recently some high profile visitors experienced ELITE, ICT’s virtual human training system being used at Ft. Benning. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta observed a session, …
May 4, 2012
Cara Santa Maria from the Huffington Post’s Talk Nerdy to Me science series, visited ICT and experienced our Wild West mixed-reality experience Gunslinger. Santa Maria …
April 27, 2012
The Naval Service Training Command published an article about ICT’s Immersive Naval Officer Training System (INOTS). Read the full article here.
April 27, 2012
ICT’s virtual human museum guides, along with several of our real researchers, made the trip to Washington D.C. to teach kids about science as part …
April 26, 2012
An article in the Toronto Star features ICT’s SimCoach project and how it employs virtual humans to help address PTSD and other mental health issues. Skip Rizzo, ICT’s associate …
April 23, 2012
Huffington Post science reporter Cara Santa Maria visited ICT’s Mixed Reality Lab for her “Talk Nerdy to Me” video series and got a glimpse of the future of virtual reality. …
April 18, 2012
An article in Defense News covers the FOV2GO, the do-it-yourself 3-D viewer developed at ICT’s Mixed Reality Lab, along with collaborators from the Interactive Media …
April 12, 2012
Effort is part of a new DoD initiative to use telemedicine and virtual humans to address barriers to care and to provide better care for …
