Two Papers Appearing at Workshops Co-Located with IEEE VR 2022

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Maria Gorlatova

Two papers from the group are set to be presented at workshops co-located with IEEE VR 2022. Both papers are centered on end applications of next-generation augmented reality (AR) techniques we are currently developing in our lab.

In a position paper titled “Environmental, User, and Social Context-Aware Augmented Reality for Supporting Personal Development and Change” we argue for multi-device edge computing-supported platforms that will enable next-generation context awareness for mobile AR, and describe exciting features it will enable for a class of augmented reality applications that support users in reaching personal and professional goals. This work has been done in collaboration with Jessilyn Dunn (Duke BME). It will be appearing at the IEEE VR Workshop for Building the Foundations of the Metaverse. [Pre-print PDF]


Supporting healthy eating habits with user context-aware AR.

In a paper titled “AR-Assisted Surgical Guidance System for Ventriculostomy“, we present an early look at an AR-based surgical guidance system we have been developing, that incorporates a visualization of patient’s anatomy and of the surgical tool that would otherwise be invisible to the surgeon. This work is based on our collaboration with Shervin Rahimpour (University of Utah Department of Neurosurgery). It will be appearing at the IEEE VR XR for Healthcare and Wellbeing Workshop. [Pre-print PDF]


Surgical guidance system that combines Microsoft HoloLens and OptiTrack

About Maria Gorlatova

Dr. Maria Gorlatova is the Sternberg Family Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. Her research centers on pervasive computing technologies, with a focus on spatial computing and next-generation augmented reality. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and her M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (Summa Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She spent two years at Princeton University’s Electrical Engineering Department as an Associate Research Scholar and Associate Director of the Princeton University EDGE Lab. Dr. Gorlatova was named one of the N2Women Rising Stars and has received multiple awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA), the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, the IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications, and research awards from Meta, Cisco, and IBM. She served as the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023, the General Co-Chair of the 2025 NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, and the TPC Co-chair of ACM/IEEE SenSys 2025.
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