@article{1ac104bbfc7f4f6e9df7eca2cfdefb1e,
title = "Guest Editors' Introduction: Special section on the IEEE virtual reality conference (VR)",
author = "Kiyoshi Kiyokawa and Gudrun Klinker and Benjamin Lok",
note = "Funding Information: Benjamin Lok received the PhD degree (2002, advisor: Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.) and the MS degree (1999) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the BS degree in computer science (1997) from the University of Tulsa. He did a postdoctorate fellowship (2003) under Dr. Larry F. Hodges at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is an associate professor in the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department at the University of Florida (UF). He is also an adjunct associate professor in the Surgery Department at the Medical College of Georgia. His research focuses on virtual humans and mixed reality in the areas of computer graphics, virtual environments, and human-computer interaction. He received a US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2007-2012) and the UF ACM CISE Teacher of the Year Award in 2005-2006. He and his students in the Virtual Experiences Research Group have received Best Paper Awards at ACM I3D (Top 3, 2003) and IEEE VR (2008). His work is primarily supported by the NSF and US National Institutes of Health. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference and he was a program cochair of the ACM VRST 2009 and IEEE Virtual Reality 2010 conferences, and area chair for IEEE ISMAR 2009. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation. He is a member of the IEEE.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1109/TVCG.2011.126",
language = "English",
volume = "17",
pages = "1193--1194",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics",
issn = "1077-2626",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
number = "9",
}