15-20 Minute Paper
Alan B. Craig, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Biography
Alan B. Craig, PhD is the senior associate director for human-computer interaction at the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and a research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Additionally he is the humanities, arts, and social science liaison for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).
Abstract
Although we live in the physical world, more and more we are living in a digital world as well. In this talk I will explore what it means to live in fully digital worlds though virtual reality, worlds in which the digital is superimposed on the physical via augmented reality, and how elements from the digital world can become physical via personal fabrication. I will also explore the continuum from the physical to the digital and back again with special attention to what happens at the boundaries between them. As such, I will focus this talk primarily on augmented reality, and particularly mobile augmented reality, including demonstrations.