Publications

Below is my list of publications. You can also download it in my CV in pdf format. Where possible, I have inserted links to pdf versions of the papers.

Books:

D. Luebke, M. Reddy, J. Cohen, A. Varshney,B.A. Watson, & R.Huebner (2002). Level of Detail for 3D Graphics. Morgan Kaufman, 2003. Japanese translation to appear. website
Invited journal publications: B.A. Watson, T. Moher, L. Gomez, J. Kim, C. Hindo, S. Fransen & T. McEneany (2004). StorySpace: Engagement, discussion and discourse in the classroom. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 24, 2, 13-15.

B.A Watson, D. Luebke, A. Dayal & C. Woolley (2004). Improving adaptive display with temporally adaptive rendering. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 7, 6. pdf

Journal and SIGGRAPH publications (refereed): B.A. Watson & D. Luebke (2005). The ultimate display: where will all the pixels come from? (pdf). IEEE Computer, to appear.

B.A. Watson, J. Kim, T. MacInearny, T. Moher, C. Hindo, L. Gomez & S. Fransen (2005).StorySpace: technology supporting classroom narrative. (pdf). IEEE Potentials, to appear.

C. Albrecht-Buehler, B.A. Watson & D.A. Shamma (2005). Visualizing live text streams using motion and temporal pooling (pdf). IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 25, 3, 52-59. Special issue on Smart Depiction for Visual Communication.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker & L.F. Hodges (2004). Supra-threshold control of peripheral LOD (pdf). Proc. ACM SIGGRAPH 2004. ACM Trans. Graphics, 23, 3, 750-759.

E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, F. Kishino & Y. Itoh (2004).On humans, spatiality and tangible user interfaces (pdf). Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 8, 338-346. Theme issue on Tangible Interfaces in Perspective.

B.A. Watson, A. Friedman, A. McGaffey (2001). Measuring and predicting visual fidelity (pdf). Talk (ppt.zip, pdf). Proc. SIGGRAPH 2001 (Los Angeles, August). In Computer Graphics Proceedings,Annual Conference Series, ACM SIGGRAPH, 213-220.

E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, S. Sutphen, R. Lederer, P. Figueroa & J. Frazer (2001). 3D Computer interactionusing physical objects: exploration of tangible user interfaces(pdf). Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 9, 7 (Aug 8 2001).

L. Liu, B.A. Watson & M. Miyazaki (1999).VR for the elderly: quantitative and qualitative differences in performancewith a driving simulator (pdf). Cyberpsychology & Behavior,2, 5. Accepted for publication May 15.

L. Liu, M. Miyazaki & B.A. Watson (1999). Norms and validity of the "DriVR" – a virtual reality driving assessmentfor persons with head injury (pdf). Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 2, 1 (Feb), 53-67.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, W.R. Ribarsky & V.Spaulding (1998). The effects of variation in system responsiveness onuser performance in virtual environments (pdf). Human Factors, Special Section on Virtual Environments, 40, 3 (Sept), 403-414.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, L.F. Hodges &A. Worden (1997). Managing level of detail through peripheral degradation:effects on search performance with a head-mounted display (pdf). ACM Trans. on Computer-Human Interaction,4, 4, 323-346.

M. Reddy, B.A. Watson, N. Walker &L.F. Hodges (1997). Managing level of detail in virtual environments: aperceptual framework. Presence, 6, 6, 658-666.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, L.F. Hodges &M. Reddy (1997). An evaluation of level of detail degradation in head-mounteddisplay peripheries (pdf). Presence,6, 6, 630-637.

L.F. Hodges, B.O. Rothbaum, B.A. Watson,G.D. Kessler, & D. Opdyke (1996). Virtually conquering fear of flying(pdf). IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications,16,6 (November), 42-49.

B.O. Rothbaum, L.F. Hodges, B.A. Watson,G.D. Kessler & D. Opdyke (1996). Virtual reality exposure therapy inthe treatment of fear of flying: a case report. Behavioral ResearchTherapy, 34, 5/6, 477-481.

B.A. Watson (1994). Virtual reality inJapan (pdf). Presence, 3,1 (1994),1-18.

L.F. Hodges and B.A. Watson (1989). A fastscan-conversion algorithm for quadratic functions. Journal of TheoreticalGraphics and Computing, 2, 2, 4-13.

Full conference publications (refereed):

E. Sharlin, Y. Itoh, B. A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, S. Sutphen, L. Liu & F. Kishino (2004). Spatial tangible user interfaces for cognitive assessment and training,(pdf). Proc. Bio-ADIT 2004 (Lausanne, Switzerland). 410-425.

C. Woolley, D. Luebke, B.A. Watson, A.Dayal (2003). Interruptible rendering (pdf).Proc. ACM Interactive 3D Graphics (Monterey, April), 143-151.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, P. Woytiuk, W.RRibarsky (2003). Maintaining usability during 3D placement despite delay(pdf). Proc. IEEE VR 2003 conference, (LosAngeles, March). 133-140.

E. Sharlin, Y. Itoh, B.A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, S. Sutphen & L. Liu (2002). Cognitive cubes: a tangible userinterface for cognitive assessment (pdf). Talk (pdf). Proc. ACM CHI: Computer-HumanInteraction (Minneapolis, April), 347-354.

V. Salamon, P. Lu, B.A. Watson, D. Brodsky & D. Gomboc (2001). A case study of improving memory localityin model simplification: metrics and performance (pdf). Proc. High Performance Computing (Hyderabad, India, December), 137-148.Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-43009-1.

P. Figueroa, M. Green & B.A. Watson (2001). A framework for 3D interaction techniques (pdf.gz). Proc. CAD/Graphics (Kunming, China, August). International AcademicPublishers.

G. Li, B.A. Watson (2001). Semiautomatic simplification (pdf). Proc. ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics (Research Triangle, NorthCarolina, March), 43-48, 244.

D. Brodsky, B.A. Watson (2000). Model simplification through refinement (pdf). Proc. GraphicsInterface (Montreal, May), 221-228.

E. Sharlin, M. Green, B.A. Watson, P. Figueroa (2000). A wireless, inexpensive optical tracker for the CAVE (pdf). Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality, 271-280.

B.A. Watson, A. Friedman, A. McGaffey (2000). Using naming time to evaluate quality predictors for model simplification(pdf). Proc. ACM Computer Human Interaction(CHI), 113-120.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, L.F. Hodges (1997). Managing level of detail through head-tracked peripheral degradation: amodel and resulting design principles (pdf). Proceedings ACM VRST ’97, Virtual Reality Software Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland, September), 59-64.

B.A. Watson, V. Spaulding, N. Walker & M.W. Ribarsky (1997). Evaluation of the effects of frame time variationon VR task performance (pdf). VRAIS '97, IEEEVirtual Reality Annual Symposium (Albuquerque, April, 1997), 38-44.

L.F. Hodges, B.O. Rothbaum, B.A. Watson,G.D. Kessler, & D. Opdyke (1996). A virtual airplane for fear of flyingtherapy (pdf). Proc. VRAIS '96, IEEE VirtualReality Annual Symposium (San Jose, April), 86-93.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker & L.F. Hodges (1995). A user study evaluating level of detail degradation in the peripheryof head-mounted displays (pdf). Proc. FIVE `95, Framework for Interactive Virtual Environments Conference (London, England, December), 203-212.

B. A. Watson and L.F. Hodges (1995). Using texture maps to correct for optical distortion in head-mounted displays(pdf). Proc. VRAIS '95, IEEE Virtual RealityAnnual Symposium (Research Triangle Park, March), 172-178.

B.A. Watson and L.F. Hodges (1994). Fastdistortion correction for head-mounted displays. Proc. 14th IMACS Conferenceon Computation and Applied Mathematics, 2 (Atlanta), 989-992.

B.A. Watson and L.F. Hodges (1992). Fastalgorithms for rendering cubic curves. Proc. Graphics Interface (Vancouver,May), 19-28.

B.A. Watson and L.F. Hodges (1989). A fast algorithm for rendering quadratic curves on raster displays. Proc. 27thAnnual SE ACM Conference (Atlanta), 160-165 .

Short conference publications (refereed): C. Albrecht-Buehler, B.A. Watson, D.A. Shamma (2004). TextPool: visualizing live text streams (pdf). Interactive Poster, IEEE Information Visualization, to appear.

P. Ren & B.A. Watson (2004). Histographs: interactive clustering of stacked graphs (pdf). Interactive Poster, IEEE Information Visualization, to appear.

J.C. Woolley, D. Luebke & B. Watson (2002). Interruptible rendering (pdf). Technical sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications,(San Antonio, July), 205.

A. Dayal, B.A. Watson & D. Luebke (2002). Improving frameless rendering by focusing on change (pdf). Technical sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications,(San Antonio, July), 201.

E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, L. Liu, S. Sutphen, R. Lederer, P. Figueroa & J. Frazer (2001). Printing virtual reality interfaces: the Cognitive Map Probe (pdf). In The Future of VR and AR Interfaces: multi-modal, humanoid, adaptive and intelligent. Proc. Workshop IEEE Virtual Reality2001 (July), 40-42. Edited by W. Broll and L. Schafer. GMD Report138, ISSN 1435-2702, ISBN 3-88457-975-4. Published by GMD -German National Research Center for Information Technology.

D. Brodsky & B.A. Watson (2000). Model simplification for interactive applications. Poster (gif) and extended abstract, Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 conference, 286.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, W. Ribarsky & V. Spaulding (1999). Managing temporal detail in virtual environments:relating system responsiveness to feedback (pdf). ACM CHI 99 Extended Abstracts, Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACMCHI 99 Conference), 280-281.

B.A. Watson, L.F. Hodges, N. Walker (1997). A model for managing level of detail with head-tracked peripheral degradation (pdf). Technical sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 1997Conference Visual Proceedings (Los Angeles, August), 183.

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, L.F. Hodges (1996). Effectiveness of spatial level of detail degradation in the periphery ofhead-mounted displays (pdf). ACM CHI96 Conference Companion (Vancouver, April), 227- 228.

Conference presentations and tutorials (refereed): E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, Y. Kitamura, D. Rorabeck, R. Lederer, S. Sutphen, M. Takimoto & F. Kishino (2004). The Tangible Pathfinder – design of a wayfinding trainer for the visually impaired. Poster at Graphics Interface 2004 Conference (London, Ontario, May).

J. Ferwerda, H. Rushmeier & B.A. Watson (2003). Perceptually-based image synthesis: modeling, rendering, display, validation. Half day tutorial, ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 conference (San Diego, CA, July).

D. Luebke, J. Cohen, A. Varshney, M.Reddy, B.A. Watson & R. Huebner (2003). Managing level of detail for3D games (pdf1, pdf2).Tutorial, Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) (San Jose, CA).

L. Liu, E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson & S. Sutphen (2003). Assessing wayfinding ability using virtual reality. CanadianAssoc. of Occupational Therapists National Conference.

J. Ferwerda, H. Rushmeier & B.A. Watson (2002). Psychometrics 101: how to design, conduct, and analyze perceptualstudies of computer graphics visualization techiques (pdf.zip). Half day tutorial, IEEE Visualization 2002 conference (Boston, MA, November).

J. Ferwerda, H. Rushmeier & B.A. Watson (2002). Psychometrics 101: how to design, conduct, and analyze perceptualexperiments in computer graphics (pdf.zip). Half day tutorial, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference (San Antonio, Texas, July).

D. Luebke, J. Cohen, A. Varshney, M. Reddy & B.A. Watson (2002). Advanced issues in level of detail (pdf1.zip,pdf2.zip). Full day tutorial, ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference (San Antonio, Texas, July).

D. Luebke, J. Cohen, A. Varshney, M. Reddy & B.A. Watson (2001). Advanced issues in level of detail (pdf). Full day tutorial, ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 conference (Los Angeles, California,August).

A. Rizzo, H. Hoffman, L. Hodges, B.A. Watson, M. Wiederhold, D. Strickland (2001). Immersed in anxiety or a processto healing (ppt.zip,pdf)? VR meets mental health. Panel discussion, ACM SIGGRAPH conference, (Los Angeles, California, August).

B. Watson (2001). Measuring visualand temporal fidelity (pdf,html). ACM/Eurographics Perceptually Adaptive Graphics Campfire. (Snowbird, Utah, May).

E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, L. Liu, S. Sutphen, R. Lederer, P. Figueroa & J. Frazer (2001). Assessmentville – a preview (poster: pdf; abstract:pdf). Poster at Graphics Interface 2001 conference (Ottawa, Canada, June)

S. Rizzo, L. Hodges, D. Strickland, H. Hoffman & B.A. Watson (2000). Virtual reality applications formental health assessment and treatment: a brief review of the future (gif.zip,ppt.zip). Panel discussion, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000 conference (New Orleans, Louisiana,August).

D. Luebke, J. Cohen, A. Varshney, M. Reddy & B.A. Watson (2000). Advanced issues in level of detail (bw.pdf,gif.zip,ppt.zip). Full day tutorial, ACM SIGGRAPH 2000 conference (New Orleans, Louisiana,August).

D. Luebke, J. Cohen, M. Reddy & B.A. Watson (2000). Advanced LOD for dynamic fidelity control (pdf). Full day tutorial, IEEE VR 2000 conference (New Brunswick, New Jersey, March).

D. Brodsky, B.A. Watson (1999). R-Simp: model simplification in reverse. Graphics Interface 99 conference posterabstracts, 39-40 (London, Canada, June).

D. Luebke, M. Reddy & B.A. Watson (1999).Dynamic LOD: what, why, how and how much. Half day tutorial, IEEE VR 1999conference (Houston, Texas, March).

L. Liu, M. Miyazaki & B.A. Watson (1999).Virtual reality for assessing the driving ability of persons who have sufferedhead injury. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 7, 92 (San Francisco, California,January).

B.A. Watson, N. Walker, M.W. Ribarsky, V.A. Spaulding & A. Worden (1996). Finding the target for level ofdetail management: how does frame rate affect users of virtual environments?Technical sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 1996 Conference (New Orleans, August).

R. Kooper, L.F. Hodges, B.A. Watson, G.D. Kessler, D. Bowman, D. Allison (1996). Virtual environments for the treatmentof phobias. A demonstration in the Digital Bayou, ACM SIGGRAPH 1996 Conference(New Orleans, August).

B.A. Watson, N. Walker & L.F. Hodges (1995). A user study evaluating level of detail degradation in the periphery of head-mounted displays. Technical sketch, ACM SIGGRAPH 1995 Conference(Los Angeles, August).

Other publications and presentations (non-refereed): T. Lechner, B.A. Watson, U. Wilensky & M. Felsen (2003). Procedural city modeling. 1st Midwestern Graphics Conference (St. Louis, MO).

A. Dayal & B.A. Watson (2003). Adaptive frameless rendering. 1st Midwestern Graphics Conference (St. Louis, MO).

Y. Itoh, E. Sharlin, Y. Kitamura, F. Kishino, B.A. Watson, S. Sutphen, L. Liu (2002). A user interface for cognitive assessment with ActiveCube. IPSJ SIGNotes Human Interface Abstract No.098 - 009. Information Processing Society of Japan.

A. Cho, R. Lederer, E. Sharlin, B.A.Watson, L. Liu & S. Sutphen (2002). Designing virtual worlds– the Cognitive Map Probe (pdf). Proc. 13th Western Canadian Computer Graphics Symposium (Silver Star, Canada, March).

P. Figueroa, B.A. Watson & M. Green (2000). A framework for 3D interaction techniques (pdf). Proc. 11th Western Canadian Computer Graphics Symposium, (Panorama, Canada,March), 205-212.

S. Sutphen, E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson & John Frazer (2000). Reviving a tangible interface affording 3D spatialinteraction (pdf). Proc. 11thWestern Canadian Computer Graphics Symposium, (Panorama, Canada, March),155-166.

D. Brodsky & B.A. Watson (2000). Parallelization, small memories and model simplification (pdf). Proc. 11th Western Canadian Computer Graphics Symposium, (Panorama, Canada,March), 75-84.

D. Brodsky, B.A. Watson (1999). R-Simp: model simplification in reverse, a vector quantization approach (pdf). Proceedings 10th Western Canadian Computer Graphics Symposium, (Banff, Canada, March), 83-92.

Technical reports: C. Albrecht-Buehler, D.A. Shamma & B.A. Watson (2004). TextPool: visualizing live text streams (pdf). Technical report NWU-CS-04-44.

E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, L. Liu, S. Sutphen, J. Frazer, R. Lederer (2003). A tangible user interface for assessing cognitivemapping ability (pdf). Technical report NWU-CS-02-14.

P. Choudhury & B.A. Watson (2002). Completely adaptive simplification of massive meshes (pdf). Technical report NWU-CS-02-09.

Under review: A. Mazzone, E. Sharlin, B.A. Watson, A. Kunz, Y. Kitamura, C. Spagno, Y. Itoh & F. Kishino. (2004). Another shot at digital clay: designing future spatial tangible user interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction. In preparation: B.A. Watson, J. Kim, T. MacInearny, T. Moher, C. Hindo, L. Gomez & S. Fransen (2004). StorySpace: technology supporting reflection, expression and discourse in classroom narrative. Invited submission to IEEE Potentials.

A. Dayal, C. Woolley, B.A. Watson & D. Luebke (2004). Temporally adaptive frameless rendering. Targeted for ACM Trans. Graphics.

C. Albrecht-Buehler, B.A. Watson, D.A. Shamma (2004). TextPool: visualizing live text streams. Targeted for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

T. Moher, C. Hindo, , L. Gomez, J. Kim, B.A. Watson, T. MacInearny& S. Fransen (2004). StorySpace: a tangible interface supporting classroom narrative. Targeted for ACM Computer-Human Interaction 2005.

T. Lechner, P. Ren, M. Felsen, U. Wilensky, S. Tisue & B.A. Watson (2004). Procedural modeling of land use in cities. Targeted for ACM Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005.

B.A. Watson & A. Friedman (2004). Predicting fidelity in sequential display. Targeted for ACM Trans. Applied Perception.

Invited lectures: B.A. Watson (2004). Procedural modeling of urban land use. Presented at:

Dept. CS, U. British Columbia (date TDB)
Electronic Arts (date TBD)

B.A. Watson (2004) Adding temporal adaptivity to interactive display. Adaptive Display Conference 2004 (August 8).

B.A. Watson (2004). Supra-threshold control of peripheral LOD. Dept. CS, Purdue University (July 28).

B.A. Watson & D. Luebke (2004). Breaking the frame in interactive computer graphics. Microsoft Research (July 20).

B.A. Watson (2004). Improving realism in interactive display. Presented at:

Dept. CS, U. Minnesota (July 21)
Dept. CS, U. Maryland at College Park (June 9)
Dept. CS, U. North Carolina at Chapel Hill (May 14)
Dept. CS, U. Virginia (May 13)
Dept. CS, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign (April 27)

B. Gooch, S. Suzuki, P. Vishton & B.A. Watson (2004). Appearance and reality: psychological and computational perspectives on representing what we see. Presentation at Northwestern University Domain Dinner (April 1).

B.A. Watson, Tom Lechner & Matt McCrory (2003). Procedural modeling of cities. Presentation at Electronic Arts, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada (February).

B.A. Watson (2001). 3D simulation of urban development. Presentation at Maxis, Walnut Creek, CA (November).

B.A. Watson (2001). New interfaces for cognitive assessment (ppt.zip,pdf). Presentation at Osaka University, Dept. Electronics and Information Systems,Japan (March).

B.A. Watson (2001). Semiautomatic simplification. Presentation at Electronic Arts, Canada, Vancouver,BC Canada (January).

B.A. Watson (1999). Dynamic fidelity control. Presentation at the University of Virginia, Dept. of Computer Science (December).

B.A. Watson (1996). The technology of virtual reality graded exposure (VRGE). Presentation at the INFOBIUM 96 seminar(Univ. Minho, Braga, Portugal, October).

L.F Hodges & B.A. Watson (1995). Virtualenvironments for the treatment of phobias. Demonstration for Vice Presidentand Mrs. Gore at the Conference on Substance Abuse and Mental Health (WashingtonDC).

B.A. Watson (1993). Fast correction for optical distortion in head mounted displays. Presented at:

Dept. CS, Korean Adv. Inst. Science & Tech. (KAIST), Taejun, South Korea (Sept)
Inst. Television Technology, Tianjin, China (Sept)
Human Environment Systems Dept., Nat. Inst. Bioscience & Human Tech., Tsukuba, Japan (Aug)
Sony Electronics, Tokyo, Japan (Aug)
IBM Japan, Tokyo, Japan (Aug)
Inst. Eng. Mechanics, U. Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan (July)
Research Ctr. Adv. Science & Tech. (RCAST), U. Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (July)
ATR Rsrch. Labs, Kyoto, Japan (July).