Joseph J. LaViola Jr.

CAE Link Professor and Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Affiliated Research Faculty
Institute for Simulation and Training

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-2362

Office: Harris 321
Email: jjl (at) eecs.ucf.edu
Phone: (407)-882-2285
Fax: (407)-823-5419

Curriculum Vitae


I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. My interests include pen-based computing, 3D user interfaces for games, human motion estimation, virtual reality, and interactive computer graphics. I am also an adjunct assistant professor (Research) in the Brown University Computer Science Department.

3DUI Book
Latest News: 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice has been translated into Japanese and Chinese.

Written with my colleagues Doug Bowman (Virginia Tech), Ernst Kruijff (Graz University of Technology), and Ivan Poupyrev (Disney Research), it is the first comprehensive text/reference book on 3D user interfaces.

Order your copy from, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or directly from Addison-Wesley.