Summer 2021:
* I'm available for remote meetings (Zoom/Google Meet/etc) on Mondays and Tuesdays. For meetings:
1. Look at my calendar below and suggest a Monday and Tuesday time (other days are not guaranteed to be available)
2. Send a formal email with your meeting goals, any relevant questions, and several proposed meeting times.
I have two fall senior projects/independent study spots open.
* I'm available for remote meetings (Zoom/Google Meet/etc) on Mondays and Tuesdays. For meetings:
1. Look at my calendar below and suggest a Monday and Tuesday time (other days are not guaranteed to be available)
2. Send a formal email with your meeting goals, any relevant questions, and several proposed meeting times.
I have two fall senior projects/independent study spots open.
If you are...
- interested in learning about
- the journey of taking virtual patients from research to realization, please email me.
- the VR For the Social Good Initiative.
- a previous presentation, you can find them here.
- a previous successful proposals, here is my (now very old) NSF Early CAREER Proposal.
- interested in joining the VERG group. I am accepting new Ph.D., masters, and undergraduate students into my research group. If you email me asking about open positions, I will know you didn't visit my webpage.
- requesting a letter of recommendation.
- interested in doing a senior project.
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Teaching
Fall 2021 - no classes Spring 2021 Human-Computer Interaction (grad) Fall 2020 VR for the Social Good Previous courses (most recent offering) VR for the Social Good (Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018 (sabbatical), Fall 2017 (sabbatical)) Human-Computer Interaction (Spring 2017) Virtual Reality (Spring 2016) Computer Graphics (Spring 2008) Service
Steering Committee Chair IEEE Virtual Reality Journal Associate Editor Computer and Graphics, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics |
Research
Do you want to make a better world by helping people communicate better? Then join our group! We study "would interacting with a virtual human make you better at interacting with real people?" The Virtual Experiences Research Group conducts virtual reality and human-computer interaction research through creating virtual human communication experiences. I encourage undergraduates (including freshmen and sophomores) and graduate students (regardless of prior experience) who want to get into research in virtual reality or human-computer interaction to contact me. Here's how! How are we doing? Check out our OKRs (inspired by Measure What Matters by John Doerr) I am a part of the Human-Centered Computing@UF. |
Here's a systems model of me:
Bio: Benjamin Lok is a Professor in the Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering Department at the University of Florida and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded Shadow Health. Professor Lok's research focuses on using virtual humans and mixed reality to train communication skills within the areas of virtual environments, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics. Professor Lok received a Ph. D. (2002, advisor: Dr. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.) and M.S. (1999) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.S. in Computer Science (1997) from the University of Tulsa. He did a post-doc fellowship (2003) under Dr. Larry F. Hodges.
Professor Lok received the UF Innovator of the Year Award (2019), a UF Term Professorship (2017-2020), the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award (2016), a 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 IVA 2019, IEEE VR 2008, and ACM I3D (Top 3, 2003). He was the chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Virtual Reality conference (2018-2021). He has been the general co-chair of IEEE VR 2014 and IEEE VR 2013, and program co-chaired the ACM VRST 2009, IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, and IEEE Virtual Reality 2011 conferences. Professor Lok is an associate editor of Computer and Graphics and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Professor Lok received the UF Innovator of the Year Award (2019), a UF Term Professorship (2017-2020), the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering Faculty Mentoring Award (2016), a 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 IVA 2019, IEEE VR 2008, and ACM I3D (Top 3, 2003). He was the chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Virtual Reality conference (2018-2021). He has been the general co-chair of IEEE VR 2014 and IEEE VR 2013, and program co-chaired the ACM VRST 2009, IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, and IEEE Virtual Reality 2011 conferences. Professor Lok is an associate editor of Computer and Graphics and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
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If you are interested in Shadow Health, Inc. and the commercialization of virtual humans for interpersonal skills training, please visit: www.shadowhealth.com
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