Dr. Larry Hodges is currently the flagship director of the School of Computing at Clemson University. He has also taught at Georgia Institute of Technology for 14 years as well as UNC Charlotte for 6 years. He has completed research and written many papers on Virtual Reality and the many uses that it could have in therapy.

Currently he has over 25 journal publications in the clinical psychology and psychiatry literature on various clinical applications of VR, including treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Fear of Flying, Social Phobias, and Balance Disorders.

Dr. Hodges website

Dr. Amy C. Ulinski joined Clemson University in January 2009 as a Postdoctoral Fellow, in the Division of Human-Centered Computing, working with Dr. Larry F. Hodges. Her research areas include human-computer interaction (HCI), 3D User Interfaces (3DUI), virtual humans, virtual environments, and visualizations. In 2008, she completed her Ph.D. dissertation, “Taxonomy and Experimental Evaluation of Two-Handed Selection Techniques for Volumetric Data”, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to earning her Ph.D., she simultaneously received a B.S. in computer science and a B.A. in art from Duquesne University.

Dr. Ulinski previously participated as a graduate student mentor in a successful REU program at UNC Charlotte. During that time she organized, instructed, and mentored undergraduate students for a Virtual Humans project, AVARI (Animated Virtual Avatar Retrieving Information). Of those students, she mentored three women undergraduate students. Two of the women students are continuing on to graduate school for computing and the third women student accepted a computing position at Vanguard. Her contributions for the REU program have been recognized by the Essam El-Kwae Faculty-Student Research Award from the College of Computing and Informatics at UNC Charlotte in 2008.