VR Egress Training

  Immersive vs. Traditional Training​ – a comparison of training modalities​ Industry 4.0/5.0 grant. 2023 PIs: Tamara Lorenz, Ming Tang Dr. Tamara Lorenz. Associate Professor. Embodied Interactive Systems Lab, Industry 4.0 & 5.0 Institute (I45I), Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception (CAP) Ming Tang. Professor. Extended Reality Lab, Industry 4.0 & 5.0 Institute (I45I), Institute for […]

paper on IJSW

Ming Tang and Adekunle Adebisi’s paper titled Using Eye-Tracking for Traffic Control Signage Design at Highway Work Zone is published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding.  Tang, M. Adebisib, A. Using Eye-Tracking for Traffic Control Signage Design at Highway Work Zone. Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding.  Vol. 6, No. 2 (2022) This paper discusses the […]

o4a AAA Partnership Award

2022 Outstanding AAA Partnership Award of the Year   On behalf of COA and Live Well, Ken Wilson (COA) and Ming Tang (UC)  received the AAA Award at the o4a conference. 10.20.2022. It is my great honor to represent Live Well as the co-recipient with the Council on Aging to receive the 2022 Ohio Association of […]

ADAF Exhibition

Group exhibition. AI in+form: Bio-inspired Solar Design. Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) 09. 2022 Group exhibition organized by the Rational Energy Architects (@R.E.Ar_)  AI in+form stands at the convergence of 3 core ideas: Artificial Intelligence, bio-inspired design, decentralised solar economy. It speculates on the future of light-harvesting to build the capacities of individuals to generate […]

UC Digital Futures Building Grand Opening

Big thanks to all faculties and students involved in helping the Digital Futures Building grand opening!  XR-Lab presented research projects on the Grand Opening day on 09/23 to hundreds of guests, along with more than 20 Labs at UC  Digital Futures Building. We are very proud to be a member of this striving research community. We look forward […]

4oA conference & demo

We presented “Leverage technology to enhance the future of aging” and demonstrated the EVRTALK project at the O4A 2022 conference in Columbus, Ohio, on 10/20.

IRIS

It is my great pleasure to join the leadership team of the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) at UC. The Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS) is an interdisciplinary research institute focused on novel routes to innovation in sensing research and sensor technology development through purposeful integration of STEM and non-STEM perspectives, including basic and […]

Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Simulation. P1,P2

VR-based Employee Safety Training. Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Simulation  Grant: Virtual Reality for Employee Safety Training. Phase I. Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. PI. Ming Tang. $16,631. Period: 6.2022- 09.2022. Virtual Reality for Employee Safety Training.Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Simulation-Phase II.  Sponsored research by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. PI. Tang. $22,365. Period: […]

Visual Impairment Sim

Our research team at the Live Well Collaborative created a Visual Impairment Simulation VR prototype to simulate glaucoma vision and peripheral vision loss in 2021. Glaucoma comprises a group of glaucomatous optic nerve damage and visual field loss disorders. It is a significant cause of blindness in the United States and is the most common cause […]

XR Lab moved in Digital Futures

As the director of the Extended Reality lab (XR-Lab), I am thrilled to report that our XR-Lab has moved into the new Digital Futures Building at UC. Our Lab will continue to broaden the scope of collaborations, using our expertise in both academic and professional fields in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. We […]

ASCE presentation

Adebisi, A., Ash, J., Tang, M.  Poster presentation. Evaluating the Performance of Safety Vests for Identifying Road Workers at Work Zones. 2022 ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2022)  American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE. Seattle, WA. 05. 2022 Team: John Ash, Ming Tang, Adekunle Adebisi, Julian Wang, Jiaqi Ma.  Funded by the Ohio Department of Transportation […]

IRiS Ignite talk

Ming Tang presented the recent research project at the annual conference hosted by the Institute for Research in Sensing (IRiS), May 25th and 26th, 2022 at UC. This event re-imagines the traditional academic conference to forge novel connections and stimulate new interdisciplinary conversations on the broad topic of sensing, including work on perception, sensor technology development, […]