SPEAKER: Dr. Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
AFFILIATION: Department of Computer Science, York University (Toronto)

TITLE: Is 'Iron Man 2' Right? Re-Investigating 3D User Interfaces

ABSTRACT: Three-dimensional (3D) user interfaces are popular in movies. There 
are also many current systems that enable people to interact with 3D content, 
including computer games. We re-investigate the ideas behind such 3D user 
interfaces and present innovative solutions based on the capabilities and 
limitations of both humans and technologies.

BIO: Dr. Stuerzlinger graduated with a Doctorate in Computer Science from the 
Technical University in Vienna, Austria in 1993 and worked at the Johannes 
Kepler University of Linz. Supported by an Erwin-Schrödinger fellowship Dr. 
Stuerzlinger visited the Department of Computer Science at the University of 
North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1997. In 1998, Dr. Stuerzlinger was appointed 
to the Department of Computer Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. 
There, he is a full professor and a member of the interdisciplinary Centre for 
Vision Research (CVR), where he is leading the Interactive Systems Research 
Group.

Dr. Stuerzlinger is a leading researcher in three-dimensional user interfaces 
and virtual reality. Additionally, he is very active in human-computer 
interaction. In general, his research aims to find innovative solutions for 
real-world problems and is often inter-disciplinary. Current research projects 
include better user interfaces for two-dimensional and three-dimensional 
design applications, meeting room environments that actively support 
collaboration, user interface techniques that are based on human perception 
principles, new virtual reality hardware and software, a novel kind of 
display system that can display very vivid images, and many other projects.