The Immersive Environments Lab (IEL) is one of several projection-based visualization and virtual reality facilities at University Park that have been supported in part by the ITS Graduate Education and Research Services (GEaRS) Visualization Group as part of ongoing effort to encourage innovative uses of visualization tools in research and in teaching at Penn State.
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The Immersive Environments Lab (IEL) and the Immersive Construction (ICon) Lab offer three screen, 3-D stereo displays for developing spatial understanding of architectural design and construction planning issues. |
The Immersive Environments Lab (IEL) http://gears.aset.psu.edu/viz/facilities/iel/ in 208 Stuckeman Family Building, in partnership with the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, focuses on the use of immersive, mutli-modal visualization systems for understanding and for communicating architectural design information throughout the design studio process. Faculty contact: Loukas Kalisperis, Professor of Architecture.
The Immersive Construction (Icon) Lab http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/cic/facilities/ICon/ in 306 Engineering Unit C, in partnership with the Department of Architectural Engineering, focuses on the use of immersive visualization environments in construction planning and related disciplines. Faculty contact: John Messner, Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering.
The Materials Simulation Virtual Realty Lab in 215 Osmond, in partnership with the Materials Simulation Center, focuses on visualization applications for materials science, physics, and chemistry. Faculty contact: Jorge Sofo, Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
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The Lasch Building Sports Medicine VR Lab focuses on issues related to spatial perception and postural stability in athletes and other populations. |
GEaRS Access Grid® Node http://gears.aset.psu.edu/viz/facilities/gridnode/ in 140 Computer Building provides an Access Grid®-equipped teleconferencing room that may be scheduled by Penn State faculty for distributed meetings with remote colleagues using the Access Grid®. Contact: access-grid@psu.edu for information and scheduling.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering and ITS GEaRS Visualization Lab to be located in 344 IST Building, is anticipated to focus on visualization methods for scientific computing, data visualization; visual information analysis, and associated human computer interfaces. Department contact: John Domico, IT Manager, Computer Science and Engineering.
The Department of Kinesiology and the Social Science Research Institute Virtual Realty (VR) Lab to be located in Rec Hall, will provide a venue for virtual reality-enabled studies involving human space perception and related psychological and performance issues. The new lab is an expansion upon (and relocation for) current activity in the Lasch Building Sports Medicine VR Lab, http://gears.aset.psu.edu/viz/facilities/sportsmed/, which focuses on research involving spatial perception and postural stability in athletes and other specialized populations. Faculty contact: Semyon Slobounov, Associate Professor of Kinesiology.
Penn State researchers who are interested in learning more about these facilities and investigating the potential of similar visualization and VR approaches in their work are invited to contact Visualization Group staff members at vizgroup@psu.edu.
