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‎_news/2025/2025-01-16-2946.md‎

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title: 'You Can Grow Here: A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management'
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date: 2025-01-16
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## You Can Grow Here: A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management
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Participant interacting with “You Can Grow Here”
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<strong>You Can Grow Here: A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management</strong> is an immersive VR experience developed for the CAVE2&trade; environment, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being. In response to the mental health challenges intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, the project explores how interactive storytelling, ambient sound, and 3D typography can support emotional reflection and teach anxiety coping strategies. Built in Unity with custom assets from Blender and Maya, the experience differs from most clinical VR programs, allowing users to independently explore emotions, manage anxiety, and practice evidence-based calming techniques within a safe, narrative-driven space that builds emotional resilience.<br><br>
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The project was developed by UIC CS+DES students Gaeun Lee, Hope Jo, Cindy Nakhammouane, and CS student Khin Yuupar Myat in the CS/DES 427/450 Creative Coding course, taught by Professors Daria Tsoupikova and Mike Papka with support from TA Hal Brynteson.

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title: 'Developing an Open Computational Framework for Decision Support Across Transportation, Weather, and Public Health'
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date: 2025-06-17
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## Developing an Open Computational Framework for Decision Support Across Transportation, Weather, and Public Health
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**Omar, K. S., Moreira, G., Veiga, C., Miranda, F.**
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- Location: Chicago, IL
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- Link: [https://sricongress.org/](https://sricongress.org/)
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- PDF: [postersustainibility_komar.pdf](/documents/postersustainibility_komar.pdf)
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EVL/UIC researchers collaborate with the Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System, to develop a computational framework for the visualization and analysis of transportation, weather, and public health data.

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title: 'OAC Core&#58; AIMCI&#58; Artificial Intelligence for Managing Cyberinfrastructure'
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date: 2025-07-27
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## OAC Core: AIMCI: Artificial Intelligence for Managing Cyberinfrastructure
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**Lan, Z., Papka, M. E.**
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- Location: Denver, CO
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- Link: [https://confmeet.github.io/2025NSFCyberPI/](https://confmeet.github.io/2025NSFCyberPI/)
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- PDF: [nsf-pi_lanoac2025.pdf](/documents/nsf-pi_lanoac2025.pdf)
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- Caption: Manual, static, single-cluster resource amangement - - Automated, dynamic, facility-wide resource management
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Advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) is undergoing disruptive changes in system architectures and application workloads. The landscape of cyberinfrastructure workloads is rapidly expanding beyond traditional computational simulations to include a hybrid mix of applications. CI facilities now host diverse high-performance systems with heterogeneous configurations, leading to a complex mix of computing, memory, and storage components. Existing CI management methods, which are heavily heuristic or manual-based, struggle with these evolving challenges. This project addresses the complex challenges of CI resource management by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with human expertise. The proposed AIMCI framework transitions from managing isolated single clusters to coordinating facility-wide management, orchestrating the entire facility as a unified pool of diverse resources for a broad spectrum of applications with various resource requirements.

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title: CS+DES Students Presented You Can Grow Here&#58; A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management at ACM SIGGRAPH 2025
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We are thrilled to announce that CS+DES students Gaeun Lee, Hope Jo, Cindy Nakhammouane, and CS student Khin Yuupar Myat presented their virtual reality project <strong>You Can Grow Here: A Therapeutic VR Journey for Anxiety Management </strong>at <a href="https://s2025.siggraph.org/">ACM SIGGRAPH 2025</a>, held in Vancouver, Canada August 10-14, 2025!<br><br>
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This innovative project was developed in the CS/DES 427/450 Creative Coding course, taught by Professors Daria Tsoupikova and Mike Papka with support from TA Hal Brynteson. The work explores the intersection of technology, design, and mental health through a VR experience aimed at anxiety management.<br><br>
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ACM SIGGRAPH is the world&rsquo;s premier international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, known for its competitive selection process and global prestige. Having undergraduate students accepted to present at SIGGRAPH is a rare and outstanding achievement.<br><br>
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Congratulations to our CS+DES students for this remarkable accomplishment and for showcasing the creativity and impact of the CS+DES program on an international stage!
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Link: [https://s2025.siggraph.org/](https://s2025.siggraph.org/)

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title: CAVE2 VR Exhibition&#58; The Hidden Costs of Logistics and the Disappearing Wild
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Hypertext 2025 Virtual Reality Exhibition in the CAVE2 VR Environment<br>
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Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)<br>
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842 W Taylor St. Room 2036<br>
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Chicago IL 60607<br>
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September 16, 2025 @ 6.30pm<br><br>
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<strong>Your VR Theater experience awaits!</strong><br><br>
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Plunge into the surrounds of our burning forests. Explore the ghostly seams of the logistical city.<br><br>
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Immersive CAVE2 Virtual Reality Exhibition -- <i>Hidden Costs of Logistics and the Disappearing Wild</i> -- highlights immersive projects that explore the intersections of anthropology, design, theater, creative coding, typography, and hypertext interaction to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems. From disappearing ecosystems to the invisible machinery behind global supply chains, each project invites participants to observe and reflect on the environmental, social, and economic impacts shaping the American Midwest and our planetary well-being.<br><br>
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Developed by multi-institutional teams of anthropologists, artists, and computer scientists from the University of Chicago, UIC, and Yale, and created by the Creative Coding participants in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), these VR experiences confront pressing global challenges with ethnographic insight and design innovation. Participants will journey through digitally rendered 360 landscapes of deforestation and the unseen logistical labor behind everyday commodities. By merging art, technology, and interactive hypertext in storytelling, these projects advance critical conversations around climate change, social justice, and the hidden infrastructures that sustain -- and strain -- life on Earth.<br><br>
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<i>Supported and organized by the Hypertext2025 Conference, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), the Department of Computer Science and the School of Design at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.</i><br><br>
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Featured Projects:<br>
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<strong>CAVE2 Virtual Reality Exhibition: Project Fulfillment</strong><br>
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by Daria Tsoupikova, Julie Y. Chu, Alexandria Schmidt, Harini Kumar, Shahira Bhasha, Gaeun Lee, Eunseo Ko, Kenzell Huggins, Darshan Shet and Farah Kamleh<br><br>
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<strong>Interactive VR Exhibition: Why Must We Make It All Burn?</strong><br>
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ACM Hypertext 2025 Conference <a href="https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/">website</a>.
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Why Must We Make It All Burn?
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Link: [https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/](https://ht.acm.org/ht2025/)

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title: Lessons from the Development and Deployment of an Interactive Oncological Risk Estimator to be Presented at VAHC 2025
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Join us in congratulating Nafiul Nipu and co-authors for a newly accepted paper in the <a href="https://visualanalyticshealthcare.github.io/homepage/2025/">VAHC: 16th Annual Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare</a> at IEEE VIS'25. The Workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare (VAHC) is the premier research event exploring the application of data visualization and visual analytics to biomedicine. The Workshop is organized by General Chair Alessio Arleo, Eindhoven University of Technology, and Co-Chairs Renata Raidou, TU Vienna and Gabriela Morgenshtern, University of Zurich.<br><br>
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N. Nipu, L. van Dijk, G. Canahuate, C.D. Fuller, G.E. Marai, &ldquo;Lessons from the Development and Deployment of an Interactive Oncological Risk Estimator&rdquo;, VAHC 2025 (16th workshop on Visual Analytics in Healthcare), in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2025, Vienna, Austria, pp. 1-7, November 2025.<br><br>
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This is a &ldquo;lessons learned&rdquo; paper about our experience developing and deploying an interactive dashboard for predicting oncological risk in head and neck cancer. The tool is hosted at EVL as <a href="https://risk-calculator.evl.uic.edu/">https://risk-calculator.evl.uic.edu/</a>, it is publicly available, and it is currently used by a large clinician base across multiple continents, which is very impressive. From the data visualization perspective, this work is particularly interesting because we collected clinician feedback more than a year after the initial deployment.
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Link: [https://visualanalyticshealthcare.github.io/homepage/2025/](https://visualanalyticshealthcare.github.io/homepage/2025/)

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