Carnegie Mellon University
From 1997-2001, I was a member of the Stage 3 Research Group, based in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer-Interaction Institute. As a member of Stage 3, I spent several years studying interaction techniques in immersive environments and exploring the simulation possibilities of virtual reality applications using head-mounted displays. My Senior Honors Thesis was about Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation.
As a part of Stage 3 Research, I also collaborated in the development of Alice, an environment for programming interactive 3D computer graphics for the World Wide Web. The Alice project is a public service to the wider computing and artistic communities; the goal of the project is to make it easy for inexperienced computer users to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics.
I spent the summers of 1997 and 1998 working on developing various parts of the front end of Alice. In particular, I was responsible for the early development of the drag-and-drop "no typing" programming interface and the networked "send a world to a friend" capability that allowed Alice users without web pages to publish the worlds they created on our public web server. I also handled parts of the integration of Alice with Teddy, the freeform modeling tool developed by Takeo Igarashi at the University of Tokyo.
