Designing the IMMERSE Research Lab

Thank you attendees for a great event! If you have further input on what type of immersive infrastructure might support your research or would like to pass this on to your colleagues, feel free to continue to add thoughts to the visioning padlet - please add ideas/comments before December 31, 2025 for full consideration.

UIUC faculty and researchers are invited to join the Designing the IMMERSE Research Lab event, held 3:30-5:00 pm CT on Thursday, December 5th, 2024 at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to support equipping the new IMMERSE research lab in NCSA 3103.

The event is open to anyone interested in research on, and with, immersive systems (VR/AR/MR/XR, …) and will be held in-person only.

Attendees will have an opportunity to shape the design and development of the new IMMERSE research lab by:

Presenting a 3 minutes lightning talk on what type of immersive infrastructure would support their research needs (please indicate your interest on the registration form by Monday, Dec. 2 for full consideration);
Taking part in a visioning session on required infrastructure to support research in immersive systems;
Networking with other leaders in XR and immersive systems on the UIUC campus;
Meeting the new IMMERSE Assistant Directors for Research, Education and Infrastructure.

The event is free but requires registration. Refreshments will be served.

Agenda

All times are in CT.

3:30-3:35pm	Welcome	NCSA Atrium
3:35-3:45pm	Introduction and overview of immersive infrastructures on campus Jake Metz, Assistant Director for Infrastructure, IMMERSE	NCSA Atrium
3:45-4:10pm	Lightning talks Pasquale Bottalico - Speech and Hearing Science, LAS Salah Issa - Agricultural and Biological Engineering, ACES Maryam Jahadakbar - Informatics, School of Information Sciences Inki Kim - Coordinated Science Lab, Grainger Engineering Craig Shultz - Electrical and Computer Engineering, Grainger Engineering Dejan Trencevski - Information Technology Partners, Gies Business Duo Wang - Graduate College and JUMP Simulation Center	NCSA Atrium
4:10-4:30pm	Visioning Session	NCSA 3103 (IMMERSE lab)
4:30-5:00pm	Networking session	NCSA Atrium

Questions can be addressed to immerse@illinois.edu.

This event is part of the Building an immersive campus event series, which aims to identify needs and collect input towards supporting the use of immersive technologies in research and education at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign.