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2024
- November 15, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Sarker M. Asish, Roberto E. Salazar and Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having their Poster Abstract titled "Effectiveness of Visual Acuity Tests in VR vs the Real-World" accepted for publication at the IEEE VR 2024. - August 21, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Jason W. Woodworth, Dr. Christoph W. Borst, Yitoshee Rahman and Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having their paper titled "Attention Guidance In The Wild: An Experiment Testing Visual Guidance Cues for VR Field Trips at High Schools" accepted for publication at the KELVAR (K-12+ Embodied Learning through Virtual and Augmented Reality) Workshop at IEEE VR 2024.
2023
- November 15, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Justin Fontenot, Dr. Michael Hebert, Dr. Hung-Chu Lin and Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having their paper titled "Examining the Perceptions Among Undergraduate Nursing Students Using Virtual Reality in a Community Course: A Mixed-Methods Explanatory Study" published at the Journal of Community Health Nursing. - August 21, 2023
Congratulations to Yitoshee Rahman, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "Comparing Visualizations to Help a Teacher Effectively Monitor Students in a VR Classroom" accepted at ISMAR, 2023. - August 18, 2023
Congratulations to Jason W. Woodworth, Dr. Christoph W. Borst, Yitoshee Rahman and Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having their Poster Abstract titled "Study of Visual Guidance Cues in VR Field Trips at High Schools", accepted for publication at the Proceedings of the 29th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST 2023). - August 1, 2023
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for being promoted to the rank of Associate Professor - June 11, 2023
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "Internal Distraction Detection Utilizing EEG Data in an Educational VR Environment" accepted at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2023. - January 27, 2023
Congratulations to Yitoshee Rahman, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their poster abstract titled "Exploring the Usefulness of Visual Indicators for Monitoring Students in a VR-based Teaching Interface" accepted at IEEE VR, 2023. - January 27, 2023
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their poster abstract titled "Detecting Distracted Students in an Educational VR Environment Using Machine Learning on EEG and Eye-Gaze Data" accepted at IEEE VR, 2023.
2022
- October 22, 2022
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "Detecting Distracted Students in Educational VR Environments using Machine Learning on Eye Gaze Data" accepted at Journal of Computer & Graphics. - September 29, 2022
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their poster abstract titled "Detecting Internal Distraction in an Educational VR Environment using EEG Data" accepted at ACM SUI, 2022 . - September 22, 2022
Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth Received Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant ($2000) from UL Lafayette. - September 6, 2022
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "User Identification Utilizing Minimal Eye-Gaze Features in Virtual Reality Applications",accepted at Journal of Virtual World . - August 23, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having his project titled "Visual Effects Workforce Solution (VEWS) and Scouting Locations in Metaverse (SLiM)" been recommended for funding by the Louisiana Department of Economic Development (LED) in the amount of $920,000. - August 22, 2022
Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth is serving as the Guest Editor for The Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) Journal for a special issue on 3D User Interfaces and Virtual Rality . - June 28, 2022
Dr. Arun Kulshreshth's Book chapter titled "Networked Virtual Reality and Enhanced Sensing for Remote Classes and Presentations" has been accepted for the book "Everyday Virtual and Augmented Reality", Springer. - June 1, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having his project titled "Classifying Student Distraction Level in Educational Virtual Reality" got funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents (RCS Program) in the amount of $161,928.
2021
- September 21, 2021
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their poster abstract titled "Supervised vs Unsupervised Learning on Gaze Data to Classify Student Distraction Level in an Educational VR Environment" accepted at ACM SUI, 2021 . - September 12, 2021
Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth is serving as the Guest Editor for The Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) Journal for the second volume of special issue on 3D Human-Computer Interaction. - September 10, 2021
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Ekram Hossain, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "Deep Learning on Eye Gaze Data to Classify Student Distraction Level in an Educational VR Environment", awarded honorable mention for the best paper at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE), 2021 - July 10, 2021
Congratulations to Sarker M. Asish, Ekram Hossain, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "Deep Learning on Eye Gaze Data to Classify Student Distraction Level in an Educational VR Environment", accepted at the the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (ICAT-EGVE), 2021 - February 09, 2021
Congratulations to David M Broussard, Yitoshee Rahman, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their workshop paper titled "An Interface for Enhanced Teacher Awareness of Student Actions and Attention in a VR Classroom", accepted at the 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (IEEE-VR 2021, WEVR), 284-290, March 2021 - February 04, 2021
Congratulations to David M Broussard, Yitoshee Rahman, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their poster titled "Visual Indicators for Monitoring Students in a VR class", accepted at the 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE-VR 2021), 502-503, March 2021
2020
- February 12, 2020
Congratulations to Yitoshee Rahman, Sarker M. Asish, Nicholas P. Fisher, Ethan C. Bruce, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their paper titled "Exploring Eye Gaze Visualization Techniques for Identifying Distracted Students in Educational VR", accepted at the 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)
2019
- August 24, 2019
Congratulations to Ekram Hossain and Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having their poster titled "Exploring the Effects of Stereoscopic 3D on Gaming Experience Using Physiological Sensors", accepted at ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 2019 - August 24, 2019
Congratulations to Yitoshee Rahman, Sarker Monojit Asish, Adil Khokhar, Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth and Dr. Christoph W. Borst for having their poster titled “Gaze Data Visualizations for Educational VR Applications” , accepted at ACM Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 2019 - July 1, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving equipment grant (enhancement) from the Louisiana Board of Regents for the project titled "Equipment for Virtual Reality Research, Education, and Outreach", $111,495. This is a joint project with Dr. Christoph W. Borst(PI). - January 15, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant ($2000) from UL Lafayette. - January 14, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) Grant from UL Lafayette., $21,150, with Dr. Christoph Borst (PI).
2018
- October 30, 2018
Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth participated in the organizing committee as the general co-chair for the ACM SUI 2019 conference. - August 1, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving an NSF award titled "CHS: Small: Enhancing Educational Virtual Reality with Headset-based Eye Tracking", $499,813, with Dr. Christoph Borst (PI). - June 25, 2018
Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth's new book titled "Designing Immersive Video Games Using 3DUI Technologies", co-authored with Dr. Joseph LaViola is now available. - June 13, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving Student Technology Enhancement Program (STEP) Grant ($9500) from UL Lafayette. - May 15, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having his paper titled "A Comparison of Eye-Head Coordination Between Virtual and Physical Realities", co-authored with Kevin Pfeil, Eugene Taranta, Dr. Pamela Wisniewski and Dr. Laviola, accepted at ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2018. - January 15, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant ($2000) from UL Lafayette.
2017
- December 15, 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for receiving Undergraduate Research Mini-Grant ($2000) from the UL Lafayette - May 1, 2017 : Congratulations to Dr. Arun K. Kulshreshth for having his paper titled, "Enhancing the Gaming Experience Using 3D Spatial User Interface Technologies",published in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.