Rawan Alghofaili

Lab: Room 5325, Engineering Building · George Mason University · ralghofa(at)gmu(dot)edu

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

11/26/2020: We will organize the 1st Workshop on "3D Content Creation for Simulated Training in Extended Reality (Training XR)" at IEEE VR 2020.
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

a moving image showing navigation in VR using our adaptive aid

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 (2020), CHI (2020)

Interests

Apart from doing research. In my spare time I enjoy: hiking, yoga, cooking, knitting and exploring the local rock scene.

When at home, I like to pester my cat Ada Lovelace (pictured below).