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Virtual Worlds Created By and Covered in Data
Emerging Areas for Data Research in Augmented and Virtual Reality
By UH Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute
Date and time
Thursday, May 5, 2022 · 9 - 10am PDT
Location
Online
Emerging Areas for Data Research in Augmented and Virtual Reality
Online
About the Event
While the development of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies were originally computer science topics, in the past decade their public availability and adoption is beginning to raise issues that intersect with data science, human computer interaction, psychology, media studies, artificial intelligence, communication and data ethics. Mark Zuckerberg recently demonstrated a tool called ‘Builder Bot,’ where a whole VR environment could be generated using AI through simple voice commands.
About the Speaker
Tony Liao (Ph.D., Cornell University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Logistics and Technology and the Founding Director of the CougAR lab, which explores how augmented and virtual reality technologies could affect society now and in the future. His research has been published in academic outlets such as Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, Information, Communication, & Society, Social Media & Society and Science.