Check out Dr. Giudice’s new paper published in Experimental Aging Research on spatial updating abilities of older adults after haptic learning. This is one of the only papers studying how haptic updating changes across the lifespan! Giudice N.A., Bennett C.R., Klatzky R.L., & Loomis J.M. (2017). Spatial Updating of Haptic Arrays Across the Lifespan. Experimental […]
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Citation: Legge, G. E., Downey, C., Giudice, N. A., & Tjan, B. S. (2016). Indoor Airport Wayfinding for Blind and Visually Impaired Travelers. Report to the Federal Aviation Administration, No. DOT/Faa/TC-TN16/54. Abstract. By conservative estimates, more than 4 million Americans have impaired vision, with the prevalence rising as the population ages. Wayfinding in complex public […]
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The Maine Journal did a nice profile recently on undergraduate lab member and 2016 UMaine Computer Science grad Brenden Peters. Check out the article and video at this link!
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The VEMI Lab was well-represented at this year’s combination Grad Expo and Center For Undergraduate Research Showcase, now called the Student Research Symposium, which was held for the first time on April 26th at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. A variety of projects were presented via talks and posters. Undergraduate participants representing VEMI included: […]
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A massive VEMI congratulations to our own Hengshan Li, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation, entitled “Evaluation of multi-level cognitive maps for supporting between-floor spatial behavior in complex indoor environments” on Monday, April 25th! Hengshan’s research has been centered around the generation of multi-level cognitive maps in indoor environments, and how both certain architectural designs and the […]
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Congratulations to PhD student Hari Palani and VEMI Lab Founding Director Dr. Nicholas Giudice for the publication of this new article! Citation: Gershon, N., Klatzky, R. L., Palani, H., & Giudice, N. A. (2016). Visual, tangible, and touch-screen: Comparison of platforms for displaying simple graphics. Assistive Technology, 28(1), 1-6. Abstract: Four different platforms were compared in […]
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The lab is proud to announce that Dr. Giudice and doctoral candidate Chris Bennett recently had an article accepted for publication in Experimental Aging Research. Check out their abstract below, and be sure to congratulate them if you see them! — Giudice, N.A., Bennett, C.R., Klatzky, R.L., and Loomis, J.M. (accepted). Updating of haptic arrays across the […]
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On February 23rd, SCIS faculty and students affiliated with the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab will be traveling to Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. The group will be speaking to students about math and science, the VEMI lab, and even exhibiting some of the exciting work that the lab has been doing in virtual reality. This […]
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Congratulations to our own Dr. Nicholas Giudice, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors for The Iris Network, a leading nonprofit organization that is advancing policy, research, and training to assist blind and visually impaired people in Maine and across the nation. Among their objectives are to help in attaining employment, increase independence, and improve community integration. For more information […]
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Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Mark Williams and John Bell, lead applications developer in Dartmouth’s Academic Commons, have been awarded a two-year research and development grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to build a cross-platform tool to help scholars study historically important films and television programs being preserved and digitized in […]
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