Amy Banic
Associate Professor Adjunct • 3D UI, AR/VR/XR, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, HCI
Computer Science
amy.banic@colorado.edu

ATLS 201C

Amy Banic's research area is in 3-D user interfaces, which focuses on human-centered computing and human-computer interaction for 3-D environments, such as immersive visualizations, virtual environments and virtual humans or embodied agents.

 

Member of the ACME Lab  

Publications

Suibi Che–Chuan Weng, Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Chad Tobin, Amy Banic, ​​Daniel Leithinger, and Ellen Yi–Luen Do. 2023. “How Field of View Affects Awareness of an Avatar During a Musical Task in Augmented Reality”. In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW) (Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023). 

Hopkins Torin, Weng Suibi Che Chuan, Vanukuru Rishi, Wenzel Emma A., Banic Amy, Gross Mark D., Do Ellen Yi-Luen (2022), AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR, , Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3, Article 847284  (11 pages), online Aug 19, 2022, URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.847284, DOI=10.3389/frvir.2022.847284

Peter Gyory, Perry Y Owens, Matthew Bethancourt, Amy Banic, Clement Zheng, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. “Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade,” In 14th ACM conference on Creativity & Cognition,  https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527927.3533023 (June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).

Torin Hopkins, Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Amy Banic, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022. "Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration," ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47: Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments. pdf  (New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).

T. Hopkins, S. C. -C. Weng, R. Vanukuru, E. Wenzel, A. Banic and E. Y. -L. Do, "How Late is Too Late? Effects of Network Latency on Audio-Visual Perception During AR Remote Musical Collaboration," 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2022, pp. 686-687, doi: 10.1109/VRW55335.2022.00194. (Christchurch, New Zealand—March 12-16, 2022).

Torin Hopkins, S. Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. User Interfaces in Smart Cities (book chapter). In Handbook of Smart Cities. Springer Publishing Company, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15145-4_94-1

Amy Banic, Erik Horwitz and Clement Zheng. 2020. Kinetic Skin: Feasibility and Implementation of Bare Skin Tracking of Hand and Body Joints for 3D User Interfaces," 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), (pp. 35-39),  DOI: 10.1109/VRW50115.2020.00014. (Atlanta, Georgia–March 22-26, 2020).

 

In the news

Two hands playing on tinycade cardboard consoles
ACM C&C'22: Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade

June 20, 2022

Tinycade is a platform designed to help game designers build their own mini arcade games by hand. With this platform, one can craft functioning game controllers out of everyday materials such as cardboard and toothpicks. In this pictorial, the authors discuss the functionality of Tinycade and showcase three games that demonstrate the variety of controls possible with this platform.

cardboard controls for gaming
ACME LAB @ ACM C&C

June 2, 2022

Researchers from ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab will present one pictorial and two Graduate Student Symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which will take place June 20-23 in Venice, Italy. The theme of this year's conference is "Creativity, Craft and Design."

Torin Hopkins beats on a drum next to an avatar also beating on a drum
AR Drum Circle research envisions enjoyable remote jamming experiences despite latency

Jan. 13, 2021

ATLAS researchers and Ericsson Research project collaborators are exploring ways in which remote drumming experiences can be made more enjoyable despite the latency, including drumming with avatars.