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News & Events

Given the interactive and immersive nature of the work of the ICT, often words aren’t sufficient. Along with new articles and press releases related to our research, we have tours that showcase our work. See below for details on requesting a visit. Please note that we have a limited capacity so not all requests can be fulfilled.

Latest News

ICT’s Jonathan Gratch Named Editor of New Journal on Computing and Emotion

Jon Gratch, ICT’s associate director for virtual humans research, has been named the inaugural editor of the new journal, The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing is intended to be a cross disciplinary and international archive journal aimed at disseminating results of research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions…

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Paul Debevec Covered by the New Zealand Press

On his recent trip to New Zealand’s AnimfxNZ conference, Paul was featured on the TV New Zealand as well as in an article in the New Zealand Dominion Post.  The stories focused on the work of the ICT Graphics Lab in bringing computer-generated animation closer to real life. “We’re trying to create a puppet, for lack of a better word,” said Debevec. “We haven’t done…

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