-
Recent Posts
Selected Topics
Archives
Author Archives: admin
One More Half-marathon: Garmin Durham 1/2
My third half marathon in the last two years – May 2026 Garmin Durham 1/2 marathon – done! Lovely race; running through the Durham Bulls stadium is a very special experience, and so is finishing on Duke’s football stadium. Problem … Continue reading
Posted in Outside of the Lab, Races, Running, Sports
Leave a comment
Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech (CHCI@VT) Headliner Seminar
Possible at Last: Using Large Multimodal Models to Evaluate and Secure Mixed-Reality Experiences – this was the title of the talk I gave as part of the VT Center for Human-Computer Interaction Seminar. Sincere thanks to the organizers for the opportunity … Continue reading
Posted in Perspectives, Talks
Leave a comment
2025 in the Duke I3T Lab: Students, Systems, and Community
In 2025, two Duke I3T Lab members received their PhDs and moved on to exciting careers in industry: Dr. Sarah Eom joined Exponent as a Biomedical Engineering Consultant; Dr. Lin Duan joined NVIDIA as an XR-AI Engineer. There were several exciting developments in … Continue reading
From Gaming Gear to ICU Rehabilitation: Bringing XR into Clinical Practice
The November 2025 issue of Duke I/O Magazine includes an article titled “Transforming Reality: How Gaming Gear is Impacting Health Care,” featuring a lovely summary of our ongoing collaboration with the Duke University School of Nursing. Together, we are designing … Continue reading
Edge Computing’s Next Decade: Intelligent Spatial Systems – and a Responsibility to Get Them Right
It was my genuine pleasure to get to share my thoughts about the past and future of edge computing at the ACM Symposium on Edge Computing 2025 panel, “Looking Back and Moving Forward: 10 Years of Edge Computing.” My highest-level … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Highlights, Perspectives, Research, Talks
Leave a comment
80 Races Completed!
By 2015, I had completed 50 races – reflections, from back then, are here. Ten years and five months later — also, two kids, one global pandemic, and one conquered tenure track later — I have now completed 80. My 80th … Continue reading
Posted in Achievement, Outside of the Lab, Races, Running, Sports
Leave a comment
IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award
Our paper titled “Detecting Visual Information Manipulation Attacks in Augmented Reality: A Multimodal Semantic Reasoning Approach” has been recognized with the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISMAR 2025, the premier XR conference. Heartfelt congratulations to the lead author, PhD student Yanming … Continue reading
Posted in Achievement, Funding and Awards
Leave a comment
Three Papers Appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025
Three Duke I3T papers are appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025: XR Reality Check: What Commercial Devices Deliver for Spatial Tracking evaluates tracking capabilities of 5 state-of-the-art XR devices (spoiler alert: Apple Vision Pro wins; also, all platforms meet perceptual requirements … Continue reading
Invited Talk at Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA 2025
Speaking at Augmented World Expo (AWE) USA, a premier industry XR for a second time – what a thrill! Last time I presented at AWE was back in 2021, when my talk was about edge- and IoT-supported AR. This time … Continue reading
Posted in Perspectives, Research, Talks
Leave a comment
Gorgeous Saint-Malo; Thanks to IEEE VR 2025 for Bringing us There
I try to go for brief outdoor runs whenever I travel for work. In colder climates, that requires packing the suitcase a bit tighter, but it is generally worth it, as it gives me a fresh perspective on the places … Continue reading
Posted in Outside of the Lab, Running, Sports
Leave a comment