Interactive Computing Experiences Research Cluster: People: Brian Williamson

Brian Williamson

Brian has been on the ISUE research staff since 2010. Before that he was a Computer Science student at UCF from fall 2002 to fall 2009 where he obtained both a bachelor's degree and Master's degree while working with the ISUE RCE. Some of his expertise and interests in the field include video game design, user interfaces, military applications, GPS/INS, embedded real time system development and digital artwork development.

Brian's current project includes a multi-modal system solution for navigation of a 3D scene along with the aid of a tablet PC.

His previous projects have included the use of Wiimote technology to track users in sports games for exercise motivation and to show the benefit of natural interface capabilities with low cost hardware. He has also worked on a soldier training platform that made use of multiple Kinects in order to track a user with real time precision in a small area, while also recognizing where they were aiming in any direction, if they were running in place, crouching, or jumping. All of which would combine into a natural full body interface using low cost hardware that did not add any additional weight or encumbrance to the soldier in training.

Projects

Full Body Navigation Interfaces
Evaluation of Self-Disclosure Techniques for Gestural Interfaces

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Publications

Williamson, B., Wingrave, C., and LaViola, J. "Full Body Locomotion with Video Game Motion Controllers". Human Walking in Virtual Environments, F. Steinicke, Y. Visell, J. Campos, and A. Lecuyer (eds.), Springer, 351-376, May 2013.
Williamson, B., LaViola, J., Roberts, T., and Garrity, P. "Multi-Kinect Tracking for Dismounted Soldier Training", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2012, 1727-1735, December 2012.
Williamson, B., Wingrave, C., LaViola, J., Roberts, T., and Garrity, P. "Natural Full Body Interaction for Navigation in Dismounted Soldier Training", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2011, 2103-2110, December 2011.
Wingrave, C., Williamson, B. , Varcholik, P., Rose, J., Miller, A., Charbonneau, E., Bott, J. and LaViola, J. "Wii Remote and Beyond: Using Spatially Convenient Devices for 3DUIs", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 30(2):71-85, March/April 2010.
Williamson, B., and Wingrave, C., and LaViola, J. "RealNav: Exploring Natural User Interfaces for Locomotion in Video Games", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2010, 3-10, March 2010.
Williamson, B. "RealNav: Exploring Natural User Interfaces For Locomotion In Video Games", Master's Thesis, University of Central Florida, Department of Computer Science, December 2009.
Bragdon, A., Zeleznik, R., Williamson, B., Miller, T., and LaViola, J. "GestureBar: Improving the Approachability of Gesture-based Interfaces", Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, 2269-2278, April 2009.

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