My Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Papers

My ACM Author Profile

2008

1. "An Empirical Study of Hear-Through Augmented Reality: Using Bone Conduction to Deliver Spatialized Audio," Lindeman, R.W., Noma, H., de Barros, P.G., Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2008, pp.35-42.
   (PDF 3.2MB)
2. "GPU Optimization of a Free-Viewpoint Video System," Orman, N., Kim, H., Sakamoto, R.,Toriyama, T., Kogure, K., Lindeman, R., (Poster) to appear in Proc. of the Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2008.
   *** 2nd Place, I3D 2008 Best Student Poster Awards ***
   (PDF 200KB)
3. "GPU-Based Optimization of a Free-Viewpoint Video System," Orman, N., Kim, H., Sakamoto, R.,Toriyama, T., Kogure, K., Lindeman, R., To appear in Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis.
   (PDF 922KB)

2007

4. "A Classification Scheme for Multi-Sensory Augmented Reality," Lindeman, R.W., Noma, H., Proc. of ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2007, pp. 175-178.
   (PDF 859KB)
5. "Hear-Through and Mic-Through Augmented Reality: Using Bone Conduction to Display Spatialized Audio," Lindeman, R.W., Noma, H., de Barros, P.G., Proc. of Int'l Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2007, pp. 173-176.
   (PDF 1.4MB)
6. "ENCORE: Energy-Conscious Rendering for Mobile Devices," Chang, C.-H., Lohrmann, P., Agu, E., Lindeman, R., First Workshop on General Purpose Processing on Graphics Processing Units, Oct. 4, 2007, in Boston, MA, USA.
   (PDF 1.1MB)
7. "What Level of Tutor Interaction is Best?," Razzaq, L., Heffernan, N.T., Lindeman, R.W. In Luckin & Koedinger (Eds) Proc. of the 13th Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Education. IOS Press, 2007.
   (PDF 158KB)

2006

8. "Wearable Vibrotactile Systems for Virtual Contact and Information Display," Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Noma, H., Hosaka, K., Special Issue on Haptic Interfaces and Applications, Virtual Reality, 9(2-3), 2006, pp. 203-213.
   (PDF 653KB)
   (Publisher's Page)
9. "Controlling the Perceived Vibrational Status of the Tactor by Vibrotactile Feedback," Niwa, M., Noma, H., Yanagida, Y., Hosaka, K., Lindeman, R.W., Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 11(1), 2006, pp. 59-68.
   (PDF 915KB)
10. "Making VR More Usable: The State of Effectiveness in Virtual Reality," Lindeman, R.W., (Invited Paper) Journal of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan, 11(1), 2006, pp. 24-27.
    (PDF 335KB)
11. "Vibrotactile Feedback for Enhanced Control of Urban Search and Rescue Robots", Sibert, J., Cooper, J., Covington, C., Stefanovski, A., Thompson, D., Lindeman, R.W. Proc. of the IEEE Symp. on Safety, Security and Rescue Robots, Gaithersburg MD, August 22-24, 2006.
    (PDF 1.7MB)
12. "The TactaPack: A Wireless Sensor/Actuator Package for Physical Therapy Applications," Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Hosaka, K., Abe, S., Proc. of the 14th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2006), pp. 337-341.
    (PDF 667KB)
13. "Towards Effective Information Display Using Vibrotactile Apparent Motion," Kohli, L., Niwa, M., Noma, H., Susami, K., Yanagida, Y., Lindeman, R.W., Hosaka, K., Kume, Y., Proc. of the 14th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2006), pp. 445-451.
    (PDF 2.63MB)
14. "A Study of Mounting Methods for Tactors Using an Elastic Polymer," Noma, H., Hashida, Y., Yanagida, Y., Lindeman, R.W. Susami, K., Hosaka, K., Kume, Y., (Short Paper) Proc. of the 14th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2006), pp. 343-345.
    (PDF 826KB)
15. "Controlling the Perceived Vibrational Frequency and Amplitude of a Voice-Coil-Type Tactor," Niwa, M., Noma, H., Yanagida, Y., Hosaka, K., Lindeman, R.W., (Short Paper) Proc. of the 14th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2006), pp. 55-56.
    (PDF 313KB)

2005

16. "Using Vibrotactile Cues for Virtual Contact and Data Display in Tandem," Lindeman, R.W., Page, R., Sibert, J.L., Templeman, J.N., Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2005), Jul. 22-27, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
    (PDF 1.2MB)
17. "Examining the Qualitative Gains of Mediating Human Interruptions During HCI," Gievska, S., Lindeman, R., Sibert, J., Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2005), Jul. 22-27, 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
18. "Effectiveness of Directional Vibrotactile Cuing on a Building-Clearing Task," Lindeman, R.W., Sibert, J.L., Mendez-Mendez, E., Patil, S., Phifer, D., Proc. of ACM CHI 2005, Apr. 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 271-280.
    (PDF 1.3MB)
19. "A Closed-Loop Tactor Frequency Control System for Vibrotactile Feedback," Cohen, J., Niwa, M., Lindeman, R.W., Noma, H., Yanagida, Y., Hosaka, K., (Interactive Poster) Extended Abstracts, ACM CHI 2005, Apr. 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA, pp. 1296-1299.
    (PDF 500KB)
20. "A Haptic-Assisted Guidance System for Navigating Volumetric Data Sets," Mendez, E., Yoshida, S., Noma, H., Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Masaki, S., Hosaka, K., (Poster) World Haptics 2005 - First Joint Eurohaptics Conference and Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Mar. 18-20, 2005, Pisa, Italy, pp. 531-534.
    (PDF 236KB)
21. "Design of a Wireless Tactor System for Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality," Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Noma, H., Hosaka, K., Kuwabara, K., (Poster) Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2005, Mar. 12-16, 2005, Bonn, Germany, pp. 285-286.
    (PDF 738KB)

2004

22. "Towards Full-Body Haptic Feedback: The Design and Deployment of a Spatialized Vibrotactile Feedback System," Lindeman, R.W., Page, R., Yanagida, Y., Sibert, J.L., Proc. of ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) 2004, Nov. 10-12, 2004, Hong Kong, China, pp. 146-149.
    (PDF 6.5MB)
23. "The Design and Deployment of a Wearable Vibrotactile Feedback System," Lindeman, R.W., Sibert, J.L., Lathan, C.E., Vice, J.M., Proc. of the 8th IEEE Int'l Symp. on Wearable Computers, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2004, Arlington, VA, USA, pp. 56-59.
    (PDF 4.1MB)
24. "Vibrotactile Letter Reading Using a Low-Resolution Tactor Array," Yanagida, Y., Kakita, M., Lindeman, R.W., Kume, Y., Tetsutani, N., Proc. of the 12th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2004), pp. 400-406.
    (PDF 1.5MB)
25. "A New Instrumented Approach For Translating American Sign Language Into Sound And Text," Hernandez-Rebollar, J.L., Kyriakopoulos, N., Lindeman, R.W., (Poster paper) Proc. of Sixth IEEE Int'l Conf. on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG'04), pp. 547-552.
    (PDF 1.9MB)
26. "HomeOS: Context-Aware Home Connectivity," Rosen, N., Sattar, R., Lindeman, R.W., Simha, R., Narahari, B., Proc. of the 2004 International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PCC'04), June 21-24, 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 739-744.
    (PDF 446KB)

2003

27. "Virtual Contact: The Continuum from Purely Visual to Purely Physical," Lindeman, R.W., Proc. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), Oct. 13-17, 2003, Denver, Colorado, USA. pp. 2103-2107.
    (PDF 48KB)
28. "Effective Vibrotactile Cueing in a Visual Search Task," Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., Sibert, J.L., Lavine, R., Proc. of the Ninth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2003), Sep. 1-5, 2003, Zürich, Switzerland, pp. 89-96.
    (PDF 656KB)
29. "Controller Design for a Wearable, Near-Field Haptic Display," Lindeman, R.W., Cutler, J.R., Proc. of the 11th Symp. on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems (2003), pp. 397-403.
    (PDF 1.3MB)
    (PostScript 4.5MB)
30. "Empirical Studies for Effective Near-Field Haptics in Virtual Environments," Lindeman, R.W., Yanagida, Y., (Poster) Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2003, pp. 287-288.
    (PDF 432KB)
    (PostScript 1.9MB)

2002

31. "Handling of Virtual Contact in Immersive Virtual Environments: Beyond Visuals," Lindeman, R.W., Templeman, J.N., Sibert, J.L., Cutler, J.R., Virtual Reality, 6(3), 2002, pp. 130-139.
    (PDF 109KB)
    (PostScript 380KB)
32. "A Multi-Class Pattern Recognition System for Practical Finger Spelling Translation," Hernandez-Rebollar, J.L., Lindeman, R.W., Kyriakopoulos, N., Fourth IEEE Int'l Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'02), Oct. 14-16, 2002, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, pp. 185-190.
    (PDF 305KB)
    (PostScript 2.7MB)
33. "The AcceleGlove: A Whole-Hand Input Device for Virtual Reality," Hernandez-Rebollar, J.L., Kyriakopoulos, N., Lindeman, R.W., (Technical Sketch), Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002, p. 259.
    (PDF 170KB)
    (PostScript 503KB)

2001

34. "Vibrotactile Feedback for Handling Virtual Contact in Immersive Virtual Environments," Lindeman, R.W. and Templeman, J.N., Usability Evaluation and Interface Design: Cognitive Engineering, Intelligent Agents and Virtual Reality, Smith, M.J., Salvendy, G., Harris, D., and Koubek, R.J. (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2001, pp. 21-25.
    (Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2001), Aug. 5-10, 2001, New Orleans, LA, USA)
    (PDF 36KB)
    (PostScript 268KB)
35. "The Effect of 3D Widget Representation and Simulated Surface Constraints on Interaction in Virtual Environments," Robert W. Lindeman, John L. Sibert, James N. Templeman, Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality 2001, pp. 141-148.
    (PDF 351KB)
    (PostScript 2.5MB)

2000

36. "On Determining the Haptic Smoothness of Force-Shaded Surfaces," Juli Yamashita, Robert W. Lindeman, Yukio Fukui, Osamu Morikawa, Shigeru Sato, (Technical Sketch), Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000, p. 240.
    (PDF 29KB)
    (PostScript 291KB)

1999

37. "Towards Usable VR: An Empirical Study of User Interfaces for Immersive Virtual Environments," Robert W. Lindeman, John L. Sibert, James K. Hahn, Proc. of ACM CHI '99, pp. 64-71.
    (PDF 198KB)
    (PostScript 1.3MB)
38. "Hand-Held Windows: Towards Effective 2D Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments," Robert W. Lindeman, John L. Sibert, James K. Hahn, Proc. of IEEE Virtual Reality '99, pp. 205-212.
    (PDF 216KB)
    (PostScript 861KB)
39. "Virtual Cutting of Anatomical Structures," Gerrit Voss, James K. Hahn, Wolfgang Muller, Robert W. Lindeman, Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality '99, IOS Press.
    (PDF 140KB)
    (PostScript 652KB)

1998

40. "Plane-Shape Perception Using Point-Contact Type Force Feedback Device," Juli Yamashita, Robert W. Lindeman, Yukio Fukui, Osamu Morikawa, Cai Yi, (Technical Sketch), Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM SIGGRAPH '98, p. 274.
    (PDF 23KB)
    (PostScript 118KB)
41. "Training Environment for Inferior Vena Caval Filter Placement," James K. Hahn, Roger E. Kaufman, Adam Winick, Youngser Park, Robert W. Lindeman, Kwang-Man Oh, Raymond Walsh, Nadia Al-Ghreimil, Thurston Carleton, Murray H. Loew, Sidharth Sankar, Proc. of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality '98.
    (PDF 120KB)
    (PostScript 539KB)

1997

42. "Integrating Algorithm Animation into a Learning Environment," Charles Kann, Robert W. Lindeman, Rachelle S. Heller, Computers and Education, 28(4), 1997, pp. 223-228.
    (PDF 392KB)

1996

43. "X-Ray Casting: Fast Volume Visualization Using 2D Texture Mapping Techniques," Youngser Park, Robert W. Lindeman, James K. Hahn, IEEE Visualization '96, Late Breaking Hot Topics.
    (PDF 97KB)
    (PostScript 384KB)

Invited Talks

• Effective Near-Field Haptics in Virtual Environments, Naval Research Labs (NRL) Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) Seminar Series, October 21, 2002.
• Handling Virtual Contact in Virtual Reality: Issues and Solutions, Purdue University Graduate Seminar Series, Dept. of ECE, February 28, 2002.

Thesis, CV, etc.

• "Bimanual Interaction, Passive-Haptic Feedback, 3D Widget Representation, and Simulated Surface Constraints for Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments," Robert W. Lindeman, Doctoral Dissertation, The George Washington University, Department of EE & CS, Washington, DC 20052, May 16, 1999.
  (PDF 1.06MB)
• Curriculum Vitae (As of January 22, 2006)
  (PDF 413KB)
• References

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Last Change: January 03, 2008 / gogo at wpi.edu