Visualization research in the ECE department centers around a signature facility, the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment (DiVE). The DiVE, one of 7 such facilities in the world, is an effort to advance computational resources, methods, and expertise within the Duke community. Visualization tools are a fundamental and necessary component of any computational solution as they provide a high bandwidth interface between the human and computer. The DiVE takes this concept one step further, in that the immersive quality of the experience engages the imaginations of people in disciplines that are not traditionally computational.

Ongoing development and refinement of processes for integrating interdisciplinary research, kinesthetic experiences with the arts, undergraduate course offerings and educational enhancement experiences for younger students (grades 9-12) into the DiVE, Duke University’s 6-sided virtual reality theater. Our group enables the application of existing commercial and academic software packages by researchers from any academic discipline at Duke to author rich, immersive, and fully interactive virtual reality (VR) worlds. Existing applications span the realms of visualization, simulation and creative art experiences.

Recent projects:

• Brain Structure Visualization / Education
• Protein Structure Visualization
• Node-Link Data Visualization (Redgraph)
• Cognitive Psycology Experiments
• Driving Simulator
• illiDiVE Math Applications