Rawan Alghofaili
I'm PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University working under the mentorship of Professor Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu. Prior to venturing into the world of PhD life, I received an MEng. (Master's of Engineering) in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MS (Master's of Science) from the University of Massachusetts-Boston.
I'm interested in using data as a mean to create usable AI assistants for content creators from all walks of life (video game designers, painters, comic book artist..etc). This involves blending the wonderful worlds of HCI, VR, Vision and Fabrication to produce functional data driven designs.
Research interests: Computational Design, Virtual Reality, Graphics, Vision, and HCI.
Updates
- 4/2/2019: Invited to give a talk at NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories
- 4/1/2019: Served as a reviewer for the international conference of Computer Animation and Social Agents CASA 2019
- 2/6/2019: Our paper "Lost in Style: Gaze-driven Adaptive Aid for VR Navigation" was featured in Seamless VR - twitter (Japanese) - twitter (English)
- 2/5/2019: Our paper "Optimizing Visual Element Placement via Visual Attention Analysis" was conditionally accepted by IEEE VR 2019
- 1/22/2019: I joined the Design Computing and Extended Reality (DCXR) Group at George Mason University
- 12/10/2018: Our paper "Lost in Style: Gaze-driven Adaptive Aid for VR Navigation" was conditionally accepted by CHI'19
Publications
Rawan Alghofaili, Michael Solah, Haikun Huang, Yasuhito Sawahata, Marc Pomplun, Lap-Fai Yu
Optimizing Visual Element Placement via Visual Attention Analysis.
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR 2019)
Rawan Alghofaili, Yasuhito Sawahata, Haikun Huang, Hsueh-Cheng Wang, Takaaki Shiratori, Lap-Fai Yu
Lost in Style: Gaze-driven Adaptive Aid for VR Navigation.
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019)
Academic Services
- Program Committee: ACHI (2019)
- Reviewer: CASA (2019), CAVW (2019), IEEE VR journal track (2020), CHI (2020)
