Intelligence and knowledgeability are sometimes treated interchangeably in virtual agents, yet they shape interaction in different ways. We disentangled these traits and tested how each drives human perceptions and interaction in virtual reality (VR)...

We explored how responsiveness (i.e., the ability to answer questions) and awareness (i.e., the ability to navigate toward the user in the virtual environment) of a virtual agent acting as a tour guide impact study participants in a virtual museum.

This series of projects utilized LLM and the ChatGPT API to incorporate natural conversations between users and virtual agents. We ran studies and asked participants to converse with virtual professors built with different depths of knowledge in their field of study, and evaluated participants' perceptions. Our research aims to explore human perceptions interacting with embodied agents through natural speech in VR.

This project aims to develop a prototype of 3D holographic American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters that increase learning efficacy for deaf students. Apart from the ongoing research for ASL interpretation digitalization, we conducted qualitative usability tests to observe user interactions toward such MR application.

This is a VR game built in Unreal Engine. Oculus VR plugin and VR inputs are added to run the application through Oculus Link on a Oculus Quest device.

Team members: Syed Tanzim, Brantly McCord,  Joshua Heller's, Angel Lam, Metali Mangal.

I built a hand gesture identifier through Oculus plugins and perform animation control that triggers different character animation states. This is a fundamental POC for hand gesture animation creation within a VR environment...

The goal is to build a multiplayer Virtual Reality game on Oculus Quest, powered by Photon Engine, allowing players to decorate a virtual room together in real-time...

The objective of this project is to build 2 pedagogical games through Unity, one version with game character performing humorous movement and the other performing normal movement, and test out the learning outcome of each group...