VEMI Lab

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The VEMI Lab is pleased to announce that four lab-authored papers were accepted to the 2016 HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) International Conference, to be held in Toronto this upcoming July. Lead authors are VEMI graduate students Christopher Bennett, Hari Palani, Hengshan Li, and R.J. Perry.   Citations for the papers are as follows: Bennett, C.R., Corey, […]

In additional funding-related news, another member of the VEMI Lab, MS Spatial Information Science & Engineering candidate RJ Perry, was recently awarded a UMaine Graduate Student Government grant to purchase a head-mounted display (HMD) that will be used to create a visual augmentation that will overlay utility data onto the viewfield of the wearer. This is intended to […]

The VEMI Lab is excited to announce that two of its members were recently awarded Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowships from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine. Toni Kaplan received funding for her project entitled “Evaluation of Virtual Reality Simulation as a Supplemental Treatment in Cases of Seasonal […]