Enhancing Trust in Telepresence: The Influence of Familiarity and Varied Eye Contact on Trust in Look-Alike Avatars
Kriti Kalary, SUNY University at Albany / SUNY Upstate Medical School Week 1: I arrived in New York City on Sunday and we kicked off the REU program with an icebreaker social event. I met the rest of my REU cohort while bowling (I wasn’t very good!). All too soon, we jumped right into work. […]
Utilizing VMD to Visualize and Analyze Two PDB Files of FNDC1
Asmita Deb Week 1 This week we first started by bowling and getting to know everybody that we would be working with for the next 8 weeks. It was a great team bonding experience and by Monday, when we stepped into Hunter College, everything went smoothly! We went up to a conference room and met […]
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
Two research papers were accepted and presented at the ACM SIIGRAPH Asia 2023 conference in Sydney, Australia: Trinity Suma, Birate Sonia, Kwame Agyemang Baffour, and Oyewole Oyekoya. 2023. The Effects of Avatar Voice and Facial Expression Intensity on Emotional Recognition and User Perception. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Technical Communications (SA Technical Communications ’23), December 12–15, […]
Immersive Remote Telepresence and Self-Avatar Project
Sonia Birate, University of VirginiaOyewole Oyekoya, CUNY Hunter College Week One This week, in addition to peer bounding, a Hunter College tour, and an introduction to Paraview, I concentrated primarily on finalizing my research proposal. Dr. Wole and I were able to narrow down a project that will explore the possibility, feasibility, and effects of […]
Arab Data Bodies Project
Lamya Serhir, CUNY Baruch College Project: Arab Data Bodies Project Mentors: Laila Shereen Sakr and Oyewole Oyekoya Week 1: The first week primarily consisted of meeting the other students, some of the mentors, and Professor Wole in addition to the project proposal. I read up on the research another student did last year for Arab […]
Immersive Remote Telepresence and Self-Avatar Project
Trinity Suma, Columbia University Oyewole Oyekoya, CUNY Hunter College Week 1 I first met my REU cohort the Monday after I arrived in NYC, bonding over bumper-less bowling at Frames Bowling Lounge. Our initial meeting was refreshing; I was excited to work with all of them and make new friends. On Tuesday, my real work […]
Visualization of Point Mutations in Fibronectin type-III domain-containing protein 3 in Prostate Cancer
Samantha Vos, Virginia Wesleyan University Week 1 This week I developed my project proposal with Dr. Olorunseum Ogunwobi. We decided to develop a visualization of the cell lineage plasticity process using either VMD or Paraview. To do this, I will find either the same or extremely similar miRNA, mRNA, and oncogenes that Dr. Ogunwobi […]
Habin Park: The Community Game Development Toolkit
Project: The Community Game Development Toolkit – Creating easy-to-use tools in Unity to help students and artists tell their story and show their artwork in a game like format. Mentor: Daniel Lichtman About Me: I’m CUNY BA student majoring in Game Design and Entrepreneurship at Hunter College. Week 1: Project Proposal and Toolkit Exploration This week, I had […]
Project Theme: Nutritional Education
Richard Erem – University of Connecticut – Professor Margrethe Horlyck-Romanovsky Week One: Our VR-REU 2023 program commenced on Tuesday, May 30th, 2023, following a delightful bowling session on the prior day that served as an icebreaker for our team. After acquiring our temporary IDs at Hunter College, we enjoyed a comprehensive building tour before proceeding […]
VR as a Learning Tool for Students with Disabilities – Summer 2023
Filip Trzcinka – Hunter College Mentor: Daniel Chan Week 1: Before meeting with my mentor Daniel to narrow down what kind of project I would be working on, I decided to get ahead on my work and start on the Literature Review portion of my research paper. I wasn’t sure if I would be focusing […]
