Humans experience the world with all their senses, including vision,

touch, and hearing. Therefore, human interfaces should provide

correlated multisensory information that is both realistic and

responsive to interaction. I will describe how we can construct such

environments with integrated graphics, haptics, and sounds. I will

show how we can construct physically based models suitable for

multisensory interactive simulation, and how these models could be

acquired from the real world. Finally, I will describe the HAVEN, our

new Haptic, Auditory, and Visual Environment.

Bio:

Dinesh K. Pai is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at

Rutgers University. Previously, he was a Professor at the University

of British Columbia and a fellow of the BC Advanced Systems Institute.

He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His

research interests include graphics, robotics, and human interaction.

See http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~dpai for more details.