Brian Williamson

Brian has been on the ISUE research staff since 2010. Before that he was a Computer Science student at UCF from fall 2002 to fall 2009 where he obtained both a bachelor's degree and Master's degree while working with the ISUE RCE. Some of his expertise and interests in the field include video game design, user interfaces, military applications, GPS/INS, embedded real time system development and digital artwork development. Brian's current project includes a multi-modal system solution for navigation of a 3D scene along with the aid of a tablet PC. His previous projects have included the use of Wiimote technology to track users in sports games for exercise motivation and to show the benefit of natural interface capabilities with low cost hardware. He has also worked on a soldier training platform that made use of multiple Kinects in order to track a user with real time precision in a small area, while also recognizing where they were aiming in any direction, if they were running in place, crouching, or jumping. All of which would combine into a natural full body interface using low cost hardware that did not add any additional weight or encumbrance to the soldier in training.

Publications

Williamson, B., Powell, P., Ghamandi, R., Belga, J., LaViola, J., Chawla, N., McMahan, R., Middleton, M., Kluck, M., and McKendrick, R. "Using Mixed Reality and Artificial Intelligence for Complex Task Guidance in a UH-60 Environment", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2025, 14 pages, December 2025.
Vargas, A., Williamson, B., and LaViola, J. "Authoring Moving Parts of Objects in AR, VR and the Desktop", Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 7(12): Article 117 (23 pages), December 2023.
Williamson, B., Taranta, E., Moolenaar, Y., and LaViola, J. "Command and Control of a Large Scale Swarm Using Natural Human Interfaces", Field Robotics, 3, 301-322, 2023.
Masnadi, S., Vargas, A., Williamson, B., and LaViola, J. "AffordIt!: A Tool for Authoring Object Component Behavior in Virtual Reality", Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2020, 340-348, May 2020.
Masnadi, S., Vargas, A., Williamson, B., and LaViola, J. "AffordIt: A Tool for Authoring Object Component Behavior in VR", 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, 741-742, March 2020.
Masnadi, S., Williamson, B., Vargas, A., and LaViola, J. "VRiAssist: An Eye-Tracked Virtual Reality Low Vision Assistance Tool", 2020 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops, 809-810, March 2020.
Taranta, E., Koh, S., Williamson, B., Pfeil, K., Pittman, C., and LaViola, J. "Pitch Pipe: An Automatic Low-Pass Filter Calibration Technique for Pointing Tasks", Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2019, Article 27: 8 pages, May 2019.
Williamson, B., Taranta, E., Garrity, P., Sottilare, R., and LaViola, J. "A Systematic Evaluation of Multi-Sensor Array Configurations for SLAM Tracking with Agile Movements", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces 2019, 1230-1231, March 2019.
Williamson, B., LaViola, J., Sottilare, R., and Garrity, P. "Creating a 360-Degree RGB-D Sensor System for Augmented Reality Research", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2018, 9 pages, November 2018.
Williamson, B., Vargas, A., Garrity, P., Sottilare, R., and LaViola, J. "AgileSLAM: A Localization Approach for Agile Head Movements in Augmented Reality", Adjunct Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 25-30, October 2018.
LaViola, J., Williamson, B., Sottilare, R., and Garrity, P. "Analyzing SLAM Algorithm Performance for Tracking in Augmented Reality Systems", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2017, 11 pages, November 2017.
LaViola, J., Sottilare, R., Williamson, B., Brooks, C., Veazanchin, S., and Garrity, P. "Using Augmented Reality to Tutor Military Tasks in the Wild", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2015, 10 pages, December 2015.
Williamson, B., Wingrave, C., and LaViola, J. "Full Body Locomotion with Video Game Motion Controllers", Human Walking in Virtual Environments, F. Steinicke, Y. Visell, J. Campos, and A. Lecuyer (eds.), Springer, 351-376, May 2013.
Williamson, B., LaViola, J., Roberts, T., and Garrity, P. "Multi-Kinect Tracking for Dismounted Soldier Training", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2012, 1727-1735, December 2012.
Williamson, B., Wingrave, C., LaViola, J., Roberts, T., and Garrity, P. "Natural Full Body Interaction for Navigation in Dismounted Soldier Training", Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2011, 2103-2110, December 2011.
Wingrave, C., Williamson, B., Varcholik, P., Rose, J., Miller, A., Charbonneau, E., Bott, J., and LaViola, J. "Wii Remote and Beyond: Using Spatially Convenient Devices for 3DUIs", IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 30(2):71-85, March/April 2010.
Williamson, B., Wingrave, C., and LaViola, J. "RealNav: Exploring Natural User Interfaces for Locomotion in Video Games", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2010, 3-10, March 2010.
Bragdon, A., Zeleznik, R., Williamson, B., Miller, T., and LaViola, J. "GestureBar: Improving the Approachability of Gesture-based Interfaces", Proceedings of ACM CHI 2009, 2269-2278, April 2009.
Williamson, B. "RealNav: Exploring Natural User Interfaces For Locomotion In Video Games", Master's Thesis, University of Central Florida, Department of Computer Science, December 2009.