Immersive Stories Lab News

April 25, 2024
Book Chapter Graphics + Accessibility
Book Chapter Graphics + Accessibility
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March 26, 2024
Participatory Community Arts Project – Salmon’s Journey through Mill Creek
This Web-based digital interactive simulates what it is like to be a Spring Chinook Salmon swimming upstream through Mill Creek in the City of Walla Walla WA.
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March 1, 2024
Haptics for Accessible Graphics in CS1
Haptics for Accessible Graphics in CS1
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December 6, 2023
Kangerlussauq by Abby Morandi
The Immersive Stories Lab helped Abby to prototype an immersive projection and loaned an ultra-short throw laser projector for the installation in the Sheehan Gallery.
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November 1, 2023
Virtual Mojave Desert
Seniors Nick Hager, Ahmed Elsayed, Ben Grabau, and Jasper Kim worked in the lab supervised by capstone instructor John Stratton to develop a virtual geology lab activity set in the Mojave Desert.
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April 30, 2023
Hispanic Studies
Students in Mariana Perez’s Hispanic Studies class imagine Picasso’s Guernica in the time of COVID cleaning precautions.
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November 1, 2022
Storytelling in FYS GENS 175
First-year students in the Storytelling pod were invited to dramatize story scenes by applying projection, color, and lighting to impart mood and tone.
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September 15, 2022
Immersive Spatial Audio Dance Project
Students in Dan Schindler and Peter de Grasse’s respective Theater and Dance classes combined to produce a final class project featuring immersive projections and directional sound.
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June 30, 2022
Stage Together: Remote Rehearsal of Theater Blocking
Developed a collaborative, Web app to support remote rehearsal of theater blocking.
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May 15, 2022
Aphros by Morgan Greaton
The lab supported senior art student (now alumna) Morgan Greaton’s immersive three wall video projection project by loaning our ultra-short throw laser projectors to the Sheehan Art Gallery.
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April 30, 2022
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Senior art student (now alumna) Eva Coulon incorporated motion tracking, immersive projection, and natural-language text generation to create an interactive experience inspired by the classic children’s book.
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January 31, 2022
Motion-Sensor Programming for Accessible Interfaces
Teaching eye-tracking and motion-tracking programming for building accessible user interfaces.
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