Theses

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2026

Emotionally Reactive AI Avatar Companion for Video Watching Experiences by Xinyi Dong.

Reward-Based Gamification: Evaluating Game Mechanics that Promote the Implementation of Personal Device Security Measures by Leah Branstetter.

Deep Screens: Reliability-Driven Correction of 3D Pose Estimation for Animation by Emma Vejcik.

From Visual Events to Vibrotactile Feedback: A Semantic VAE Pipeline for Temporal Haptic Generation by Jiayi Liu.

Semantic Directing: A Human-AI Workflow for Interative Virtual Cinematography by Lejie Liu.

LENS: LLM-Enabled Narrative Synthesis for Mental Health by Aligning Multimodal Sensing with Language Models by Wenxuan Xu.

Conditional Product Sampling for Gaussian Process Implicit Surfaces by Song Shi.

VisionGlow: Evaluating Minimal-Disruption Smart-Home Control in Apple Vision Pro by Hongxiao Zheng.

Guiding the Story World: A Comparison of Diegetic Cues in a Snow White VR Narrative Game by Jiayi Xu.

Unsafe2Safe: Controllable Image Anonymization for Downstream Utility by Minh Dinh.

From Passive Observer to Co-Creator: Investigating the Role of Real-Time AI Interaction in Art Appreciation by Claire Draeger.

2025

A High Speed Imaging Framework Using Sparse Sampling and Generative Priors by Kedari Chowtoori.

Multi-Level Differentiable Particles with Partition of Unity by Jinjin He.

TerrainCraft: Automated Land-Cover–Driven Terrain Generation for Marine Robot Simulations by Xinyue Liang.

AIMR-BRAINSTORM: AI-Enhanced Interactive Mixed Reality For Collaborative Ideation by Yuchuan Ma.

HeartDJ - Music Recommendation and Generation through Biofeedback from Heart Rate Variability by Egemen Şahin.

Customizable VR Driving Experiences: Balancing User Comfort and Interactivity by Kaihao Tian.

Memenify: Leveraging Machine Learning and Large Language Models for Contextual Meme Creation by Xiaoyu Wei.

A Wave-Optics BSDF for Correlated Scatterers by Ruomai Yang.

Eulerian Smoke Simulation with Multiple Fields by Diyang Zhang.

An Efficient Fourier Caching Algorithm for Walk on Spheres by Zihong Zhou.

2024

A Study of Social Anxiety in Extended Reality Environments by Abdul Hadi Debs.

Echo: The 2.5D Bridge Between the 2D and 3D Virtual Reality Space by Emilie Nicole Hopkinson.

Enhancing Terrain Creation in Unity With a Hybrid Modular Tool: Integrating Procedural Generation and Manual Input for Optimized Design Flexibility and Efficiency by Kewen Huang.

Latent Auto-recursive Composition Engine by Yenkai Huang.

Poster, Performed: Understanding Public Opinions of Authorship in Generative Artificial Intelligence Models via Analogy by Wylie Z. Kasai.

Impact of Similarities in Gender and Physical Appearance Between User and Embodied Conversational Agents on Trustworthiness, Empathy, and Service Evaluation by Sookyoung Park.

Capturing and Processing Dynamic Holistic Scene for Enhanced Vision by Ziyuan Qu.

Embodied Visions: Interactive Installations That Reimagine Bodily Presence in Digital Imaging Apparatuses as Shadows by Yunzi Shi.

(Meta-)Physical Artworks: Digital augmentation in art observation by Macy A. Toppan.

Thematic Synthesis: Rethinking Generative Music with Compositional Understanding in Game and Software Development by Jasper Moore Tucker.

Automated Cinematographer for VR Viewing Experiences by Zihan Wu.

Deep Screens: A Pipeline for Transforming Pose Estimation in Film into 3D Character Animations by Yaming Xu.

2023

AnatoView: Using interactive 3D visualizations with augmented reality support for laypersons’ medical education in informed consent processes by Michelle Chen.

Expressive mARks: Art in the Age of Augmented REality by Carson G. Levine.

Sprout: Using a Garden Metaphor to Visualize and Support Customizable and Collaborative Health Tracking by Pape Sow Traoré.

An Interactive System for Generating Music from Moving Images by Hanlin Wang.

Beyond News Values on Twitter: Predicting Factors That Drive User Engagement in News by Zhiyan Zhong.

Triple Helix: AI-Artist-Audience collaboration in a performative art experience by Xuedan Zou.

2022

Automated Filament Inking for Multi-color FFF 3D Printing by Eammon Littler.

Temporally Sliced Photon Primitives for Volumetric Time-of-flight Rendering by Yang Liu.

Intelligent Voice Guidance in VR: Understanding the Value of NLP in Virtual Environments by Zhiyu Xiao.