Jeffrey Jacobson
Department of Information Sciences, Doctoral Student

ACADEMIC HISTORY
Jeffrey received an AA in Economics and an AS in Physics from Austin Community College in 1984. He earned a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 1986. In 1997, he received a MS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Currently he is a Doctoral candidate from the University of Pittsburgh in the Department of Information Science.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Jeff's current research includes the comparison of different forms of educational media and the adaptation of desktop 3D applications to immersive displays. Jeff invites people to read more about his research at his web site at www.planetjeff.net.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

	Jacobson, J., Lewis, M., Sycara, K., (2002) COTS Multiscreen Displays,Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Human Augmentation and Virtual Environments, UNC, October, D-37.
	Jacobson, J. (2002) Configuring Multiscreen Immersive Displays With Existing Computer Equipment, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting, 2002, p760-765. Demonstration.
	Jacobson, J. (2002) "CaveUT: Game-Engine Software for CAVE-like displays, a Walk-in Demonstration at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems", Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 2002. Walk-in demonstrations are not peer-reviewed and do not appear in the proceedings.
	Jacobson, J., Hwang, Z., (2002) "Unreal Tournament for Immersive Interactive Theater", in Lewis, C., Jacobson, J. (2002) Game Engines for Scientific Research, Communications of the ACM, January 2002.
	Whitney, S. L., Sparto, P. J., Brown, K. E., Furman, J. M., Jacobson, J., Redfern, M. S. (2002) The Potential Use of Virtual Reality in Vestibular Rehabilitation: Preliminary Findings With the BNAVE. Neurology Report Vol. 26, No. 2, 2002.
	Jacobson, J., Redfern, M. S., Furman, J. M., Whitney, S., Sparto, P. J., Wilson, J. B., Hodges, L. F. Balance NAVE; A Virtual Reality Facility for Research and Rehabilitation of Balance Disorders. VRST 2001:103-109.
	Jacobson, J., Redfern, M. S., Furman, J. M., Whitney, S., Sparto, P. J., Wilson, J. B., Hodges, L. F. (2001) Balance NAVE; A Virtual Reality Facility for Research and Rehabilitation of Balance Disorders, Poster shown at the conference, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2001, Newport Beach, CA, US, January, 2001. This poster was peer-reviewed, but does not appear in the proceedings.
	Jacobson, J., Hwang, Z., Hughes S (2001); VR Software at $40 Per Projection Screen; UnrealTournament on the BNAVE.” Submitted to the IEEE/ACM conference of Virtual Reality Systems and Technology in Alberta, November, 15, 2001.
	Jacobson, J., and Vadnal, J (1999); Multimedia in Three Dimensions for Archaeology;Information Retrieval With Interactive Models.” Proceedings for the SCI'99/ISAS'99 Conference in Orlando, August 3, 1999.
	Jacobson, J., and Vadnal, J. (1998); Learning in a Highly Interactive, Low-Resolution Virtual Environment: The Tomb of Lady Hao.” Proceedings for the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
	Jacobson, J., and Lewis, M. (1997); An Experimental Comparison of Three Methods for collision Handling in Virtual Environments.” Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 41st Annual Meeting. V2, p1273.
	Jacobson, J., and Lewis, M. (1997); Collision Handling in Virtual Environments; Facilitating Natural User Motion.” Proceedings for the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
	Lewis, M., Lenox T., Roth E., Roberts L, Shern R., Rafalski, T., Jacobson, J. (1997); Support of Teamwork in Human-agent Teams.” Proceedings for the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.