Publications

  Journal Papers

1.      1 Daugherty, B., Babu, S., Cutler, B., and Hodges, L. F. (2008). Comparison of Virtual Human versus Human Administration of Police Lineups, accepted in IEEE Journal on Computer Graphics and Applications (IEEE CG&A), selected based on top 5 best papers of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2007.

 

2.      Babu, S., Suma, E., Barnes, T., Hodges, L. F. (2008) Teaching Social Conversational Protocols using Interactive Immersive Virtual Human Interface Agents, in submission to Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2008.

 

3.      Babu, S., Liao, P.-C., Shin, M.C., and Tsap, L.V. (2006). Recovery and Visualization of 3D Structure of Chromosomes from Tomographic Reconstruction Images, in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 45684, 13 pages, 2006.

 

4.      Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S., Ulinski, A., Hodges, L. F. (2005). Comparison of Path Visualizations and Cognitive Measures relative to Travel Technique in a Virtual Environment, in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 11. 6. pp.  694-705.

 

5.      Whitney, S.L., Sparto, P.J., Hodges, L.F., Babu, S.V., Furman, J.M., and Redfurn, M.S. (2006) Responses to a Virtual Reality Grocery Store in Persons with and without Vestibular Dysfunction, in Journal on CyberPsychology and Behavior, Volume 9, Number 2.

  Peer Reviewed Conference/Workshop Papers

6.      Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Ziemer, C., Chihak, B., Cremer, J., Kearney, J., and Plumert, J. (2008). A Virtual Peer for studying Peer Influence in Children’s Bicycling, in submission to the IEEE International Conference in Virtual Reality 2009 (IEEE VR 2009). 

 

7.      Chihak, B., Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Ziemer, C., Cremer, J., Kearney, J., and Plumert, J. (2008). How do bicyclists intercept moving gaps in a virtual environment? in the Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization (APGV 2008), p. 188, Los Angeles, CA.

 

8.      Cairco, L., Babu, S., Ulinski, A., Zanbaka, C. and Hodges, L. F. (2007). Shakespearean Karaoke, in the Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, p. 239 – 240, Newport Beach, CA, Nov 5-7, 2007. 

 

9.      Daugherty, B., Babu, S., Cutler, B., and Hodges, L. F. (2007). Officer Garcia: A Virtual Human for Mediating Eyewitness Identification, in the Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, p. 117 – 120, Newport Beach, CA, Nov 5-7, 2007.

 

10.  Whitney, S.L., Sparto, P.J., Babu, S.V., Hodges, L.F., and Furman, J.M., Redfern, M.S. (2007) Perceived Anxiety and Simulator Sickness in a Virtual Grocery Store in Persons with and without Vestibular Dysfunction, in International Conference on CyberTherapy 2007, Washington, D.C.

 

11.  Babu, S., Suma, E., Barnes, T., and Hodges, L.F. (2007). Can Immersive Virtual Humans teach Social Conversational Protocols? in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality 2007, Charlotte, N.C. Acceptance rate: 27%

 

12.  Suma, E., Babu, S., and Hodges, L. F. (2007). Comparison of Travel Technique in a Complex, Multi-Level 3D Environment, to appear in IEEE International Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2007, Charlotte, N.C. Acceptance rate: 22% RECEIVED BEST PAPER AWARD

 

13.  Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Barnes, T., and Hodges, L.F. (2006).  What would you like to talk about? An evaluation of social conversations with a virtual receptionist.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Intelligent Virtual Agents (Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, ISBN  0302-9743) Vol. 4133/2006), pp. 169-180. Also published as: Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Barnes, T., Hodges, L.F. (2006). What Would You Like to Talk About? An Evaluation of Social Conversations with a Virtual Receptionist. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Los Angeles, U.S.A, August 2006, J. Gratch et al.(Eds.) Springer-Verlag). Acceptance rate: 28%

 

14.  Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Inugala, R., Rao, S., Barnes, T., Hodges, L.F. (2005). Marve: a prototype virtual human interface framework for studying human-virtual human interaction. in Springer Lecture Notes on Aritifical Intelligence LNAI, (T. Panayiotopoulos et al.(Eds.) Springer-Verlag). Also published as: Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Inugala, R., Rao, S., Barnes, T., Hodges, L.F. (2005). Marve: a prototype virtual human interface framework for studying human-virtual human interaction.  Proceedings of the 5th International Working Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Kos, Greece, September 2005, T. Panayiotopoulos et al.(Eds.) Springer-Verlag), pp.120-133. Acceptance rate: 32%

 

15.  Dong, H.J. Chang, S.L., Gye, B.J., Song, C.G., Babu, S., and Hodges. L.F. (2005). Differentiation on information gathering ability in real and virtual world. 13th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2005, Macao, China), pp.157 - 159.

 

16.  Whitney, S.L., Sparto, P.J., Hodges, L.F., Babu, S.V., Furman, J.M., and Redfern, M.S. (2005). Responses to a virtual reality grocery store in persons with and without vestibular dysfunction. The Fourth International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR 2005, Sept. 19-21, Catalina Island, CA).

 

17.  Babu, S., Zanbaka, C., Jackson, J., Chung, T., Lok, B., Shin, M.C., and Hodges, L.F. (2005). Virtual Human Physiotherapist Framework for Personalized Training and Rehabilitation, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Graphics Interface 2005, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, May 9 - 11, 2005.

 

18.  Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S., Xiao, D., Ulinski, A, and Hodges L.F. (2004). Effects of Travel Technique on Cognition in Virtual Environments, in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality 2004, 149-156, 286.  Acceptance rate: 20.3%

 

19.  Babu, S., Liao, P.-C., Shin, M.C., and Tsap, L.V. (2004). Towards Recovery of 3D Chromosome Structure, in IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion (held in conjuction with IEEE CVPR 2004), Washington, D.C., June 2004. Acceptance rate: 27%

 

  Peer Reviewed Abstracts and Videos

20.  Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Barnes, T., Hodges, L.F. (2006). What would you like to talk about? An Evaluation of Social Conversation with a Virtual Receptionist. Intelligent Virtual Agents 2006 Video Proceedings.

 

21.  Babu, S., Liao, P.-C., Shin, M. C., and Tsap, L.V. (2005). Recovery and Visualization of 3D Chromosome Structure, Poster at The 2005 AppliedVis Conference, Ashville, N.C., April 2005.

 

22.  Babu, S., Schmugge, S., Rao, S., Barnes, T., Hodges, L.F. (2005). Marve: Messaging and Recognition Virtual Entity. Intelligent Virtual Agents 2005 Video Proceedings.

 

23.  Zanbaka, C., Lok, B., Babu, S., Xiao, D., Ulinski, A., Hodges, L.F. (2004). Effects of travel technique on cognition in virtual environments. IEEE Virtual Reality 2004 Video Proceedings.

  Technical Reports

24.  Sabarish Babu, Stephen Schmugge, Srinivasa Rao, Raj Inugala, Tiffany Barnes, Larry F. Hodges, Marve: Messaging and Recognition Virtual Entity, Technical Report # TR-FCL-2004-06, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

 

25.  Sabarish Babu, Pao-C. Liao, Min C. Shin, and Leonid V. Tsap, Recovery and Visualization of 3D Chromosomes Structure from Computed Tomography Volume Image Slices, Technical Report # TR-FCL-2004-04, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.