RESOURCES

Funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), ICICS (the Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems) is constructing an extensive addition to its current facility on the UBC campus. The expansion, whose completion is expected in 2004, will house major HCI display, interface prototyping and user testing facilities.

For more information, contact Fels, Booth or Rensink.

ACME: Active Measurement Center
Contact: Pai

Located in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, ACME is an integrated robotic facility designed to acquire a rich set of measurements from objects of moderate size, for building computational models. ACME can acquire a large number of registered measurements including shape, reflectance, sound, and contact forces.

GEMINI: General Environment for Multimodal Investigation into New Interfaces
Contact: MacLean, Rensink

Gemini is a distributed facility for user studies of multimodal perception and interfaces. The Imager Graphics Lab hosts a sophisticated multimodal experimentation room with soundproofing, digital subject monitoring and state-of-the-art visual and auditory display capabilities. Psychology's Vision Lab hosts a large immersive display and a "testing farm" for large-volume visual experimentation. Construction to be completed by Fall 2002.

Imager Digital Editing Suite
Contact: Fisher

The Imager Computer Graphics Lab includes a state-of-the-art setup for the processing of analog and digital audio/visual media.

LIL: Landscape Immersion Lab
Contact: Booth, Fisher, Meitner

The Landscape Immersion Lab (LIL) is an immersive environment, created by panoramic image projection. Images are projected onto the three angled screens using 3 LCD projectors and a Silicon Graphics Onyx II Infinite Reality Supercomputer. The LIL is used to project both panoramic photographs and realistic visualizations of existing, past and future landscapes. The LIL is available to researchers and outside community groups for relevant research or resource-related problem solving.

Other Psychology Experimentation Resources

Researchers in the Kenney Psychology building maintain among them an extensive variety of user study facilities. Consult individual Psychology researchers for more details.