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Çöltekin, A., Oprean, D., Wallgrün, J. O., & Klippel, A. (2017). Where are we now? Re-visiting the Digital Earth through human-centered virtual and augmented reality geovisualization environments. International Journal of Digital Earth, 12(2), 119–122. https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2018.1560986

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We are organizing a mini conference on immersive experiences and technologies at AAG 2019, Washington, DC. The initial program includes 6 paper sessions, which are listed below.

Wednesday afternoon, April 3, 2019 (tentative)

Immersive I: Multimodal visualization for Smart Cities – Urban data as Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and multidimensional visualizations

Immersive II: Immersive Technologies for Natural Hazards and Climate Change Communication

Immersive III: Eclectic Topics I – Immersive Experiences and Technologies

Thursday afternoon, April 4, 2019 (tentative)

Immersive IV: Spatial Cognition in Virtual Environments – Opportunities through Immersive Technologies

Immersive V: Digital Socialities- Immersive Technologies and Experiences

Immersive VI: Eclectic Topics II – Immersive Experiences and Technologies

The US Forest service will fund research on: Evaluating the potential of virtual reality immersive experiences for improving natural resource decision making in fire prone forested ecosystems

A joint proposal with Eric Knapp (USFS), Alan Taylor (Penn State), and Alexander Klippel (Penn State).

Jiawei Huang has passed both her proposal defense and her comprehensive exam! Congratulations!

Mahda Bagher has passed her qualifying exam! Congratulations!

Our work on virtual field trips is featured in an article by the Wall Street Journal

(happy to share the article if you have problems accessing it)