Workshop: Content Generation for Workforce Training
Event TypeACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers, Frontiers Workshop
Research & Education
Research & Education
TimeSunday, 28 July 20199am - 5pm
LocationRoom 409A
DescriptionThis workshop’s goal is to articulate research challenges for authoring rich graphical content for workforce training needs. Historically, materials such as books and movies were used in addition to hands-on experiences for education and practical training. Increasingly, various other types of computer-generated media have been developed. Computer-driven simulators and augmented/virtual reality experience have been used in place of or as a complement to hands-on experiences. However, the authoring of this material is still a time-consuming process requiring specialized computing skills. The goal of this workshop is to examine how computational methods for content authoring can be revolutionized.
Content Generation for Workforce Training
Organizer
Holly Rushmeier
Presenters
Carolina Cruz-Neira
Eakta Jain
Rajesh Jha
Jerome Solomon
Greg Welch
Louise Yarnall
Event Type
ACM SIGGRAPH Frontiers
Frontiers Workshop
Research & Education
Research & Education
TimeSunday, 28 July 20199am - 5pm
LocationRoom 409A
DescriptionThe workshop’s goal is to articulate research challenges for authoring rich graphical content for workforce training needs. Historically, materials such as books and movies were used in addition to hands-on experiences for education and practical training. Increasingly, various other types of computer-generated media have been developed. Computer-driven simulators and augmented/virtual reality experience have been used in place of or as a complement to hands-on experiences. However, the authoring of this material is still a time-consuming process requiring specialized computing skills. The goal of this workshop is to examine how computational methods for content authoring can be revolutionized.
Organizer
Holly Rushmeier
Yale University
Yale University
Holly Rushmeier is the John C Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Her research interests include shape and appearance capture, applications of perception in computer graphics, modeling material appearance and developing computational tools for cultural heritage. She has been active in SIGGRAPH since her first paper in 1987.
Presenters
Carolina Cruz-Neira
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Carolina Cruz-Neira is a pioneer in the areas of virtual reality and interactive visualization, having created and deployed a variety of technologies that are standard tools in industry, government and academia. She received the IEEE Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Eakta Jain
University of Florida
Eakta Jain is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. She is interested in problems at the intersection of graphics, virtual reality and visual perception. Her research group is funded through faculty research awards from Facebook and Google, federal funding from the National Science Foundation, and state funding from the Florida Department of Transportation.
Rajesh Jha
SimInsights, Inc.
Raj is the founder and CEO of SimInsights Inc., a VR/AR software company. Raj started his career at Altair, where he managed computer aided engineering software for automotive, aerospace and other sectors. He holds a BSME from IIT Varanasi, MSME from Ohio State University and an MBA from UCLA.
Jerome Solomon
Cogswell Polytechnical College
Jerome has 17 years industry experience in animation & games. He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from UCLA, Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, and is a Ph.D. Student in Cybersecurity at Santa Clara University, an Associate Professor, and Dean of Education at Cogswell Polytechnical College.
Greg Welch
University of Central Florida
Welch earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Purdue University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include human-computer interaction, human motion tracking, virtual and augmented reality, computer graphics and vision, and training related applications.
Louise Yarnall
SRI