Amy Banic
Associate Professor Adjunct • 3D UI, AR/VR/XR, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, HCI
Computer Science
amy.banic@colorado.edu

ATLS 201C

Amy听Banic's research area is in 3-D user interfaces, which focuses on human-centered computing and human-computer interaction for 3-D environments, such as immersive visualizations, virtual environments听and virtual humans听or embodied agents.

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Member of the ACME Lab听听

Publications

Suibi Che鈥揅huan Weng,听Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Chad Tobin,听Amy Banic,听鈥嬧赌�Daniel Leithinger, and听Ellen Yi鈥揕uen Do. 2023. 鈥溾��. In:听2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)听(Shanghai, China, March 25-29, 2023).听

Hopkins Torin,听Weng Suibi Che Chuan,听Vanukuru Rishi,听Wenzel Emma A.,听Banic Amy,听Gross Mark D.,听Do Ellen Yi-Luen听(2022), AR Drum Circle: Real-Time Collaborative Drumming in AR, , Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Vol. 3, Article 847284 听(11 pages), online Aug 19, 2022, URL=, DOI=10.3389/frvir.2022.847284

Peter Gyory,听Perry Y Owens,听Matthew Bethancourt,听Amy Banic,听Clement Zheng,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2022.听鈥淏uild Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade,鈥� In听14th ACM conference on听,听听听(June 20-23, 2022鈥擵enice, Italy).

Torin Hopkins,听Rishi Vanukuru,听Suibi Che-Chuan Weng,听Amy Banic,听Ellen Yi-Luen Do.听2022. "Augmented Personification of Intelligent Music Tools for Creativity and Collaboration," ACM CHI 2022 Workshop 47:听:听When Interactive Assistance and Augmentation Meet Musical Instruments.听pdf听听(New Orleans, LA鈥擬ay 1, 2022).

T. Hopkins,听S. C. -C. Weng,听R. Vanukuru,听E. Wenzel,听A. Banic听and听E. Y. -L. Do, "How Late is Too Late? Effects of Network Latency on Audio-Visual Perception During AR Remote Musical Collaboration,"听2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2022, pp. 686-687, doi:听. (Christchurch, New Zealand鈥擬arch 12-16, 2022).

Torin Hopkins, S. Sandra Bae, Julia Uhr, Clement Zheng, Amy Banic and Ellen Yi-Luen Do. 2021. (book chapter). In . Springer Publishing Company, Inc.听

Amy听Banic, Erik听Horwitz and听Clement听Zheng. 2020. Kinetic Skin: Feasibility and Implementation of Bare Skin Tracking of Hand and Body Joints for 3D User Interfaces,"听2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW),听(pp. 35-39),听 听(Atlanta, Georgia鈥揗arch 22-26, 2020).

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In the news

Two hands playing on tinycade cardboard consoles
ACM C&C'22: Build Your Own Arcade Machine with Tinycade

June 20, 2022

Tinycade is a platform designed to help game designers build their own mini arcade games by hand. With this platform, one can craft functioning game controllers out of everyday materials such as cardboard and toothpicks. In this pictorial, the authors discuss the functionality of Tinycade and showcase three games that demonstrate the variety of controls possible with this platform.

cardboard controls for gaming
ACME LAB @ ACM C&C

June 2, 2022

Researchers from ATLAS Institute鈥檚 ACME Lab will present one pictorial and two Graduate Student Symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which will take place June 20-23 in Venice, Italy. The theme of this year's conference is "Creativity, Craft and Design."

Torin Hopkins beats on a drum next to an avatar also beating on a drum
AR Drum Circle research envisions enjoyable remote jamming experiences despite latency

Jan. 13, 2021

ATLAS researchers and Ericsson Research project collaborators are exploring ways in which remote drumming experiences can be made more enjoyable despite the latency, including drumming with avatars.