Amy Banić

  • Associate Professor Adjunct
  • 3D UI, AR/VR/XR, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, HCI
  • COMPUTER SCIENCE
Address

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.

Publications

Torin Hopkins, Suibi Che Chuan Weng, Rishi Vanukuru, Sasha Novack, Chad Tobin, Emma Wenzel, Amy Banic, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2024. “XR Jam: Design Considerations for Music Networking with AI in XR,”  In: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and eXtended and Virtual Reality (AIxVR). (Los Angeles, CA, Jan 17-19 2024)

Rishi Vanukuru, Suibi Che-Chuan Weng, Krithik Zanjan, Torin Hopkins, Amy Banic, Mark D Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2023 "DualStream: Spatially Sharing Selves and Surroundings using Mobile Devices and Augmented Reality". In: IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR). (Sydney, Australia, October 16-20, 2023).

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. In: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3.

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". In: ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47: Intelligent Music Interfaces: When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments. (New Orleans, LA—May 1, 2022).

T. Hopkins, S. C. -C. Weng, R. Vanukuru, E. Wenzel, A. Banic and E. Y. -L. Do. 2022. "How Late is Too Late? Effects of Network Latency on Audio-Visual Perception During AR Remote Musical Collaboration". In: IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). (Christchurch, New Zealand—March12-16, 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.

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". In: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3. (Online, Aug 19, 2022).

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. (June 20-23, 2022—Venice, Italy).

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." In: 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW). (Atlanta, Georgia–March 22-26, 2020).