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Three New Labs Announced at ICT
The USC Institute for Creative Technologies, a unit of USC Viterbi, and Department of Defense (DoD) University Affiliated Research Center (UARC),...
Virtual Reality Showing Promise as Medical Treatment for PTSD
The convoy is under attack. A roadside bomb obliterates the Humvee that had been leading the column and gunfire rains down on the...
HCI International 2023 Best Paper Award – Learning and Collaboration Technologies
Congratulations to ICT's Dr. Ning Wang, and her co-authors, who won Best Paper Award for the 10th International Conference on Learning and...
AI on the Job: Will you be competing with a bot for a gig?
Generative artificial intelligence tools like chatbots are making some workers better at their jobs by augmenting their skills. But as the...
The Convergence podcast spoke with Dr. Keith Brawner, Program Manager, ICT and Dr. Bill Swartout, CTO, ICT about immersive technologies, simulation and artificial intelligence.
“We found that people systematically were more willing to reveal confidential or sensitive information to a virtual human than to a real person”...
Virtual reality therapy offers tech-forward solutions for veterans battling PTSD
As he looks back at photos, retired United States Air Force Master Sgt. Rob Cook reflects on the transformative power of his military service. “My...
Innovative app uses AI to battle rising veteran suicide rates
In an effort to address the alarming rates of suicide among veterans, researchers at the University of Southern California Institute for Creative...
How AI Will Change the Workplace
We are already seeing the rise of digital assistants that speak with a human voice and can use human appearance and social intelligence to negotiate...
USC launches computing into the next frontier
USC President Carol L. Folt launched a $1 billion-plus initiative to expand and infuse advanced computing throughout the university’s programs and...