Research Engineer II
Interactive Media Technology Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
| Degree | Year | University | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
Master of Science |
1996 |
Georgia Tech |
Electrical Engineering |
Bachelor of Engineering |
1993 |
Georgia Tech |
Electrical Engineering |
Title |
Organization |
Years |
|---|---|---|
Research Engineer II |
Georgia Tech IMTC |
1998 - present |
Research Engineer I |
Georgia Tech IMTC |
1994-1998 |
Tech Temp – Project Coordinator |
Georgia Tech IMTC |
1994 |
Student Assistant |
Georgia Tech IMTC |
1993-1994 |
Brian Jones interests and research currently involve the use of immersive, interactive computer-driven programs delivered through web technologies, CD-ROM, kiosks, and DVD to improve learning for all ages.
Brian Jones has been involved in numerous research projects while working at Georgia Tech. These projects include: developing cutting-edge, educational, multimedia information systems, websites, CD-ROMs, and interfaces; examining, producing and demonstrating a custom application to generate orthographic images from video; investigating full screen interactive video in kiosks; and exploring advanced human motion-capture techniques.
Title: Biomedical Engineering Virtual
Labs year 2 (informal)
Sponsor: Georgia Tech/Emory School of
Biomedical Engineering / Whitaker Foundation
Co-P.I(s): William E. Price
Amount Requested: $107,195
Date
Submitted: 5/31/02
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $107,195, 12/02 – 12/03
Title: The Dating Game
Sponsor: Zoo Atlanta
Amount Requested: $19,764
Date
Submitted: 2/7/02
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $19,764, 4/02-9/02
Title: Woodruff Arts Center Kiosk Update
Sponsor: Woodruff Arts Center
Amount Requested: $3228
Date
Submitted: 11/28/01
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $3228, 3/02-9/02
Title: Biomedical Engineering Virtual
Labs website year 1
Sponsor: Georgia Tech/Emory School of
Biomedical Engineering / Whitaker Foundation
Co-P.I(s): William E.
Price
Amount Requested: $84,550
Date
Submitted: 2/01
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $84,550, 5/01-8/02
Title: i-irasshai Tomo Avatar Change
Sponsor: Georgia
Public Broadcasting
Co-P.I(s): Andrew Quay
Amount Requested: $32,699
Date
Submitted: 1/01
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $32,699, 2/01-8/01
Title: Yamacraw Kiosk
Sponsor: Yamacraw
Co-P.I(s): William E. Price
Amount Requested: $84,000
Date
Submitted: 8/14/00
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $84,000, 12/00-12/01
Title: Life College Kiosk Update
Sponsor: Life College
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $7,700
Date
Submitted: 1/4/96
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $7,700, 3/96-5/96
Title: Life College Kiosk
Sponsor: Life College
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $14,138
Date
Submitted: 8/25/95
Result: Funded
Funding
level, Period of Performance: $14,138, 8/95 – 11/95
Title: GDITT Kiosk (informal proposal)
Sponsor: Georgia Department of Industry
Tourism and Trade
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $48,162
Date
Submitted: 10/15/02
Result: Not Funded
Title: Spanish - One Language, Many
Cultures – A Cultural Journey
Sponsor: National Endowment for Humanities
/ seeking other foundation funding
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $686,209
Date
Submitted: 10/14/02
Result: Not Funded
Title: IEEE Virtual Museum Web Applets
(informal per applet cost)
Sponsor: IEEE
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $2,634
Date
Submitted: 7/31/02
Result: Not Funded
Title: IMLS Conservation Project: Education
component (informal proposal)
Sponsor: Zoo Atlanta
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $9,168
Date
Submitted: 10/16/00
Result: Not Funded
Title: Gorilla Vocalization Kiosk Phase
II (informal proposal)
Sponsor: Zoo Atlanta
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $24,445
Date
Submitted: 10/5/00
Result: Not Funded
Title: Giant Panda Research Kiosk Phase
II (informal proposal)
Sponsor: Zoo Atlanta
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $88,131
Date
Submitted: 10/5/00
Result: Not Funded
Title: Collaborative Music Exhibit (Informal
Proposal)
Sponsor: Experience Music Project Museum
Amount Requested: $42,000
Date
Submitted: 3/13/98
Result: Not Funded
Title: Life College Recruiting CD-ROM
(Informal Proposal)
Sponsor: Life College
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $34,056
Date
Submitted: 4/9/97
Result: Not Funded
Title: SAC II Information Kiosk (Informal
Proposal)
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Department of
Health and Performance Science
Co-P.I(s):
Amount Requested: $21,500
Date
Submitted: 1/3/97
Result: Not Funded
Title: Memory Mirror
Sponsor: Aware Home Research Initiative
P.I: Beth
Mynatt
Amount Funded:
Period of Performance: 11/04 – present
Contribution: Develop application to help elderly
track items over time using RFID reader, antenna, and tags.
Title: Wireless RERC
Sponsor: NIDRR
P.I: Helena Mitchell
Amount Funded:
Period of Performance: 1/04 – present
Contribution: Provide web support for wirelessrerc.org
site, including web accessibility considerations. Develop web pages (PDA
and Standard) for the Mobile Accessibility Guide development project.
Title: GWCC Virtual Tour
Sponsor: Georgia World Congress Center
P.I: Scott Robertson
Amount Funded: $30,699
Period of Performance: 7/04 – 11/04
Contribution: Developed virtual tour engine to read
in XML and display small and mid-size panoramas alongside virtual map of
the complex.
Title: CharmBadge
Sponsor: Charmed / GRA
P.I: Peter
Presti / Maribeth Gandy
Amount Funded: $150,000
Period of Performance: 9/03 – 9/04
Contribution: Developed the CharmBadge Download Center
Kiosk application; contributed ideas on functionality of the hardware and
CharmBadge conference management application; designed web pages for, and
contributed ideas and quality assurance to the database/web functionality
for the CharmBadge Information Access Center; and acted as liaison with conference
planners and attendees.
Title: FastTalk
Sponsor: FastTalk / Georgia Research
Alliance
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $60,000
Period of Performance: 7/01 – 6/02
Contribution: Planned and authored wizard application
to help users setup audio on their systems for optimal performance with other
FastTalk applications.
Title: Giant Panda Donor Kiosks and Gorilla Vocalization
Kiosk
Sponsor: Zoo Atlanta
P.I: Tiffany O’Quinn
Amount Funded: $16,100
Period of Performance: 11/99 – 10/00
Contribution: Technical direction, authored interactions,
prepared kiosks for installation and installed kiosks.
Title: Dance Technology Project - 1999
Sponsor: Georgia Corporation for Economic
Development / Georgia Allies
P.I: Andrew Quay
Amount Funded: $45,000
Period of Performance: 9/99 – 11/99
Contribution: Researched laser pointer tracking for
use in live performance, technical setup and support for Savannah performance.
Title: High Museum VALS kiosk update
Sponsor: The High Museum of Art
P.I: Tiffany O’Quinn
Amount Funded: $18,764
Period of Performance: 8/99 – 3/00
Contribution: Technical direction, interactive authoring,
planned and aided in implementation of user tracking application for kiosks,
installation and maintenance of kiosks.
Title: Down the Fairway with Bobby Jones Kiosk
Sponsor: Atlanta History Center
P.I: Andrew Quay
Amount Funded: $123,489
Period of Performance: 9/98-5/99
Contribution: Directed students and artists; interacted
with client and consultants; planned and programmed East Lake golf course
virtual tour and play a hole with Bobby Jones interactions; installed and
maintained kiosk.
Title: Virtual Japan: An Interactive Exploration
of Japanese Culture (web/CD-ROM)
Sponsor: Georgia Public Broadcasting
/ National Endowment for the Humanities
P.I: William E. Price, Carolyn Cole
Amount Funded: $191,461
Period of Performance: 7/98 – 12/00
Contribution: Technical direction, authored immersive
interactions in Macromedia Director, HTML, and Javascript, supervision of
students in development of Shockwave applets and HTML development, contributed
to evaluation, prepared for distribution via web and CD-ROM, on-going maintenance.
Title: National Security for the 21st Century
CD-ROM
Sponsor: SAGE through Georgia Tech Library
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $85,000
Period of Performance: 7/98 – 1/01
Contribution: Technical direction; programmed interactions
in Macromedia Director; prepared CD-ROM for publication.
Title: GEMC website
Sponsor: Georgia EMC
P.I: William Price
Amount Funded: $21,495
Period of Performance: 7/98 – 3/99
Contribution: Technical direction
Title: Odyssey Online
Sponsor: Emory University – Carlos Museum
/ AT&T Foundation
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $40,000
Period of Performance: 6/98 – 12/00
Contribution: Supervised design and programmed Javascript
and HTML for Teacher site.
Title: Frying Simulator
Sponsor: FoodPac
P.I: Peter Presti
Amount Funded: $45,540
Period of Performance: 6/98
Contribution: Programming
Title: Orthographic Texture Mapper
Sponsor: Denon
P.I: Andrew Quay
Amount Funded: $10,000
Period of Performance: 6/98 – 5/99
Contribution: Research and Development, Programming,
Data Acquisition and Processing, Supervision of Graduate Research Assistant
Title: TRAM Flap Surgical Simulator
Sponsor: CSSI
P.I: John Guffey
Amount Funded: $30,000
Period of Performance: 11/97 - 2/98
Contribution: Research and Program Development,
Interface Design
Title: The Man from Perry CD-ROM
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Library
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $50, 720
Period of Performance: 3/97 - 11/98
Contribution: Technical Director, Interactive Programming,
Program Layout and Planning, Troubleshooting, Audio and Video Editing, 3D
Modeling and Animation
Title: Home House Calls – Addition of
Blood Glucose and Spirometer
Sponsor: Medical College of Georgia
P.I: John Peifer
Amount Funded: $9,422
Period of Performance: 3/97
Contribution: Video and Audio Recording and Editing,
Layout Design, Acting, and Script Writing
Title: Orthographic Texture Mapper
Sponsor: Graphics, Visualization, and
Usability Center, Georgia Tech
P.I: Michael Sinclair
Amount Funded: $100,000
Period of Performance: 1/97 - 6/98
Contribution: Research and Development, Programming,
Data Acquisition and Processing, Supervision of Graduate Research Assistant
Title: High Museum of Art Kiosks
Sponsor: High Museum
P.I: Tiffany O’Quinn
Amount Funded: $14,266
Period of Performance: 1/97 - 5/97
Contribution: Technical Director, Interactive Programming,
Program Layout and Planning, 3D Modeling, Troubleshooting, Maintenance
Title: Museum Multimedia Stations
Sponsor: Emory University
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $80,976
Period of Performance: 11/95 - 12/96
Contribution: Technical Director, Interactive Programming,
Art Design, Video and Audio Editing, Installation and Maintenance
Title: Georgia Resource Center Web
Sponsor: Georgia Power
P.I: Andrew Quay
Amount Funded: $9,166
Period of Performance: 10/95 - 1/96
Contribution: Web Authoring, CGI Programming, 3D
Modeling and Animation, Web Page Layout and Planning
Title: Heritage Center Kiosks and Interactive
Theater
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Athletic Association
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $75,004
Period of Performance: 12/95
Contribution: Installation and Maintenance
Title: Home House Calls
Sponsor: Medical College of Georgia
P.I: John Peifer
Amount Funded: $55,536
Period of Performance: 12/95
Contribution: Interactive Programming, Video and
Audio Recording and Editing, Layout Design, Acting, and Script Writing
Title: Georgia Resource Center Upgrade
Sponsor: Georgia Power
P.I: Andrew Quay
Amount Funded: $9,166
Period of Performance: 11/95 - 12/95
Contribution: 3D Modeling, Re-Installation
Title: MCCM – Multimedia Stations
Sponsor: Emory University
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $193,908
Period of Performance: 11/94 – 11/95
Contribution: Technical Director, Interactive Programming,
Art Design, Video and Audio Editing, Installation and Maintenance
Title: Home House Calls – Addition of
Healthdyne Fetal Heart and Uterine Monitor
Sponsor: Medical College of Georgia
P.I: John Peifer
Amount Funded: $1,623
Period of Performance: 11/95
Contribution: Video and Audio Recording and Editing,
Layout Design, Acting, and Script Writing
Title: Operation Legacy
Sponsor: Georgia Power
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $7,500
Period of Performance: 12/94 - 4/95
Contribution: Installation and Breakdown
of Multimedia Olympic Systems
Title: D.O.T. Traffic Simulator
Sponsor: Department of Transportation
P.I: Michael Sinclair
Amount Funded: $171,855
Period of Performance: 8/94 - 12/94
Contribution: Image Manipulation
Title: Interop – 3D Golf Swing Analysis
Sponsor: BellSouth
P.I: Mike Sinclair
Amount Funded: $45,965
Period of Performance: 8/94
Contribution: 3D Human Motion Capture
Title: Multimedia CD-ROM Engine – Clio ‘94
Sponsor: Hitachi Telecommunications
P.I: Andrew Quay
Amount Funded: $16,632
Period of Performance: 4/94 - 7/94
Contribution: Artwork
Title: Woodruff Sports
Sponsor: Woodruff Foundation
P.I: Michael Sinclair
Amount Funded: $202,150
Period of Performance: 2/93 - 5/94
Contribution: 3D Human Motion Capture, Digitizing,
Data Processing, Research on Joint Markers using LEDs and Accelerometers
Title: Dance Technology Project ‘94
Sponsor: Georgia Tech VPIP
P.I: Michael Sinclair
Amount Funded: $12,500
Period of Performance: 4/94
Contribution: 3DHuman Motion
Capture and Digitizing
Title: Reality Check
Sponsor: Discovery Channel
P.I: Michael Sinclair
Amount Funded: $2,872
Period of Performance: 4/94
Contribution: 3D Human Motion Capture,
Digitizing, and Data Processing
Title: Logistics 2020
Operations Design Center
Sponsor: Andersen Consulting
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $13,906
Period of Performance: 3/94
Contribution: Materials Assembly and
Installation
Title: Museum Multimedia Stations – Prototype
Sponsor: Emory University
P.I: William E. Price
Amount Funded: $23,861
Period of Performance: 2/94
Contribution: Artwork
Title: ACOG Animation
Sponsor: ACOG
P.I: Michael Sinclair
Amount Funded: $8,000
Period of Performance: 9/93 – 10/93
Contribution: 3D Human Motion Capture,
Digitizing, Data Processing
The Charmbadge is an electronic conference badge that uses infrared, line-of-sight technology to communicate with other CharmBadges in its viewing area. Each Charmbadge has a unique ID that is associated with the attendee wearing it through a database lookup. That ID is passed to other CharmBadges in the viewing area and stored along with the interaction time. At any time, the CharmBadge interaction information can be downloaded at a CharmBadge download center and stored in the CharmBadge database for later viewing via the CharmBadge Information Access Center website. Brian Jones developed the CharmBadge Download Center Kiosk application; contributed ideas on functionality of the hardware and CharmBadge conference management application; designed web pages for, and contributed ideas and quality assurance to the database/web functionality for the CharmBadge Information Access Center; and acted as liaison with conference planners and attendees.
A set of virtual laboratory procedures currently in development to provide undergraduate students of the Georgia Tech/Emory Biomedical Engineering program a better understanding of the protocol before entering the lab. The modules feature lab equipment developed in Flash, incorporated into Macromedia Director and delivered through the internet. Detailed information about the experiments is presented in an HTML frame with animations, video and illustrations to reinforce the procedure used in the interactive HTML frame. A secondary web site allows the instructor to manage student access to the site, view students’ performance and design new review quizzes for each experiment.
This interactive game was designed for use on a kiosk that resides in Zoo Atlanta’s Ford African Rain Forest exhibit for a web. The game teaches visitors and users how gorillas are chosen for mating. The game utilizes a visual format similar to TVs "The Dating Game" to determine the best of three bachelor mates for a gorilla bachelorette based on Species Survival Plan coordinators’ standards. On-line at www.imtc.gatech.edu/TMG_DSL.swf
An immersive, cultural learning tool designed to supplement students enrolled the Irasshai Japanese Language Learning program available through Georgia Public Broadcasting. The program allows students to explore Japanese culture in an authentic environment of interactive 360 degree photo-realistic images with “show me” hotspots that when clicked provide further information on Japanese background and beliefs related to the items. 50 locations (e.g. host family home, market place, shrine, school, and temple), 60 Shockwave activities (e.g. how to buy train tickets, how to order and eat sushi, and ho to order and pay for produce at the market), and HTML quizzes reinforce the students’ learning experience. The student may choose a goal-driven exploration where they select from 50 “to-do” lists with three or four related tasks that they must accomplish, or to explore with their own agenda. The program is available at www.imtc.gatech.edu/vrjapan, www.gpb.org/peachstar/i-irasshai, or on CD-ROM.
Prompted by the work of Senator Sam Nunn, this CD-ROM was developed in conjunction with the Georgia Tech Library to inform high school and higher education students of the national security risks we face in the new century. The program goes into great depth about the history, current events and future risks associated with nuclear, biochemical and informational terrorism. The program provides simulated scenarios of how these terrorist tactics might be carried out and who would be affected as well as videos communicating the views of Sam Nunn and experts in the national security realm on what needs to be done to improve national security.
Designed for a permanent exhibit at the Atlanta History Center, the kiosk features three sections: Classic Instruction, Tour of the EastLake Golf Course and a Research Web Site selectable through touch sensitive buttons incorporated into the kiosk enclosure. Classic Instruction allows the user to explore the differences between classic golf instruction, through the audible words, video and images of Bobby Jones, and modern golf instruction, through the text, video and images of Ben Crenshaw. Tour of the East Lake Golf Course is an interactive history and tour of this famous Georgia golf course. This section features three videos about the courses history and an interactive tour with par – 1 seamless 360 degree images where the user can “look around” the course and clubhouse along with the yardage, hazards, and design for each hole. This section also presents the user with the opportunity to play hole 15 with Bobby Jones, by compositing classic footage of Bobby with modern course photographs. The user must choose the appropriate clubs and rely on some luck to keep up with Bobby. The Research Web Site was developed for researchers interested in learning about the life of Bobby Jones and history of golf in Georgia.
A project to develop a technique and software for the generation of long orthographic images from video sequences. This software extracts sections from each video frame, corrects for vertical displacement, and longitudinal distortion utilizing image processing techniques. These realistic texture maps can be used in gaming, simulation, and panoramic applications.
A collaborative project with the Bio-Engineering Interactive Technology Center (BITC) at Georgia Tech and the Medical College of Georgia to develop an interactive medical monitoring system linked via a network to a central nurses’ monitoring station. The system provides the patient with the necessary monitoring equipment to perform a number of tests from the patient’s living room. The medical equipment is linked to a computer that determines whether the tests have been completed successfully and sends the test data automatically to the central monitoring station, where it is analyzed and stored. The system also features a video conferencing system - to allow visual monitoring and communication with the patient’s doctor at the monitoring station - and on-line video help - to aid the patient during measurements. The systems are currently in use in various patient’s homes in a test region.
A collaborative project with the University of Georgia and the Collaborative Product Development Laboratory (CoLab) at Georgia Tech to develop a visualization software system simulating the physical and chemical changes that occur during the deep-fat frying of various FoodPac products. Mathematical models and software algorithms were developed to provide the basic engine for the simulator.
A three year project to develop an interactive information system for visitors to the Museum. The interactive kiosks provide in-depth artistic, historic and cultural information about the artifacts and collections housed in the Museum. The installation consists of six touch-screen kiosks placed in the permanent galleries of the Museum.
An interactive full-screen video kiosk was developed to promote Life College at a conference commemorating 100 years of chiropractic medicine. The kiosk was later updated to highlight academic and student life for prospective students. The kiosk consisted of a computer and television monitor interfaced with a trackball to present the information.
Interactive CD-ROM that provided educational information for junior high and high school students documenting the private life and political career of former Senator Sam Nunn. The staff of the Georgia Tech Library and IMTC collaborated to produce this unique educational tool which incorporated interviews with the Senator, his family, friends and colleagues.
A collection of four kiosks describing the artists’ use of color, composition, light, and line in their works of art. The kiosks are arranged on a raised platform that allows the user to maintain the line of sight with the works of art while in a seated at the kiosk. Each kiosk presents information about how the artist produced a specific effect utilizing one of the four fundamentals of art theory.
Digital Video Using Adobe Premiere: 8/1-8/2/2001, 8/6-8/7/2002; Course lecturer.
Company |
Area of
Consultation |
Date |
|---|---|---|
Data Slide |
Interactive Authoring, Multimedia Problem Solving |
10/96-11/95 |
Media4 |
Marketing CD-ROM |
6/97-9/97 |
Dynamedia |
Assisted with Marketing Presentation |
2/98 |
GVU Brown Bag Seminar, Presentation of Orthographic Texture Mapper Research, November 6, 1997