Students enrolled in this 3 credit independent study course will work as part of a research team to help design and construct a demonstration testbed augmented reality facility. (In the context of this project, augmented reality' refers to the use a head-worn computer interface, featuring a see through display that superposes visual information over a worker's naturally occurring view, and a set of headphones). The augmented reality testbed will be used to help improve spaceframe assembly operations.
This interdisciplinary project is being run by professors Tony Webster of the Graduate School of Architecture and Steven Feiner of Computer Science. The independent study course is open by permission of the instructors to a limited number of (preferably) senior and junior level Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Architecture majors. Interested students should send a one page (max) resume -- including courses taken to date, GPA, work experience, current phone number and e-mail address, and two references (including phone numbers and e-mail addresses) to:
Professor Tony Webster
Director of Building Technologies
Mailbox 22
400 Avery Hall
acw18@columbia.edu
(e-mailed resume's are preferred).
More information about Augmented Reality in Architecture is available on the WWW at: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~archpub/BT/RESEARCH/ar.html