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Rice University Department of Computer Science presents Dinesh K. Pai Division of Computer and Information Sciences Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Multisensory Simulation and Interaction Abstract Humans experience the world with all their senses, including vision, touch, and hearing. Therefore, human interfaces benefit from providing correlated multisensory information. Prof. Pai will describe recent progress in my group towards constructing multisensory environments with integrated graphics, haptics, and sounds. These environments are designed to be both realistic and responsive to human interaction. He will describe the construction of physically based models suitable for multisensory interactive simulation, and how these models could be acquired using the UBC Active Measurement Facility (ACME). Pai will also describe the new Rutgers Haptic, Auditory, and Visual Environment (HAVEN), currently under development. Monday, January 27 at 3:00 p.m. in DH 1070 A reception will follow in DH 3092 About Dinesh K. Pai Dinesh K. Pai is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers, the State University of NJ. Previously, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the BC Advanced Systems Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His research interests span the areas of graphics, robotics, and multisensory human-computer interaction. One current research focus is reality-based modeling, i.e., building multisensory computational models of the physical world from measurements. This includes a recent thrust in reconstruction from medical ultrasound images. Another focus is fast simulation with integrated sound, haptics, and graphics, especially simulation of contact. Copyright 2000 Rice University site problems: www@cs.rice.edu --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---