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Dr. Jonathan Gratch spoke to WIRED magazine’s Steven Levy about AI assistants
The technology will make individual people more powerful – the one concern I have is, what do people do with that power? Read the full story here...
Indian Director and Movie Star Visit ICT for VFX
The Times of India reported that Indian movie star Vijay and director Venkat Prabhu came to ICT to do VFX for a forthcoming film.
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...








