Robert Pastel
Location: (Houghton, MI)
Personal Research Web Page: http://www.cs.mtu.edu/~rpastel/Research/research.htm
Keywords: HCI, Virtual Environments, Positioning, Navigating, Gesturing
Posted on: Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Broad Research Area: AI / Machine Learning / Robotics / Vision, Graphics / Visualization, HCI / CSCW
Research Interests:
My research is focused on navigating and positioning objects in 2d and 3d virtual environments. The research has developed general gesturing techniques, a new mouse driver for desktop environments, and modeled the effectiveness of users to locate themselves in 3d environments and position objects in 2d. The laboratory has a stereo visor for augmented and immersive environments, magnetic and optical trackers, and grasping gloves.
Future research is extending gesturing techniques for navigating and specifying objects or regions in multidimensional virtual environments using multimedia virtual environments. The primary application area is studying and interrogating multidimensional scientific data. We intend to learn the limitations of computer users to navigate abstract environment and improve the navigation and positioning techniques by human performance modeling.
