Jason Wither
Senior ResearcherNorth America Lab
I joined the NRC Hollywood group in February of 2009 after completing my PhD at UC Santa Barbara where I worked in the Mixed Reality group, developing compelling mixed reality experiences for mobile devices including The Westwood Experience. In July 2011 I joined the Spatial Technologies team in the North America Lab where I am working on next generation 3D maps. My primary interest in this is utilizing city geometry aware panoramas both for enhanced traditional mapping tasks, and other novel location aware applications.
Research Interests
My primary research interest is in connecting spatialized virtual content to the real world in meaningful and entertaining ways. This includes work in Augmented Reality, as well as other forms of presenting hyper-local information like 3D maps based on panoramic images. I am interested in utilizing this overlapping real and virtual space both to give people more specific information about their physical surroundings, as well as to introduce fictional virtual elements into the real world in interesting ways.
Publications
Jason Wither, Sean White, and Ronald Azuma, Comparing Spatial Understanding Between Touch-Based and AR-Style Interaction, Poster at the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2011.
Jason Wither, Yun-Ta Tsai, and Ronald Azuma, Indirect Augmented Reality, Computers & Graphics, Volume 35, Issue 4, August 2011, pp. 810-822.
S. DiVerdi, J. Wither, and T. Höllerer. All Around the Map: Online Spherical Panorama Construction In Computers and Graphics 33(1), Feb. 2009.
J. Wither. Annotation at a Distance in Augmented Reality. PhD Thesis, T. Höllerer Advisor. February 2009. (pdf)
J. Wither, C. Coffin, J. Ventura, and T. Höllerer. Fast Annotation and Modeling with a Single-Point Laser Range Finder In Proc. ACM/IEEE Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, Sept. 15-18, 2008. (pdf)
S. DiVerdi, J. Wither, and T. Höllerer. Envisor: Online Environment Map Construction for Mixed Reality. In Proc. IEEE Virtual Reality, Mar. 8-12, 2008. Best Paper Honorable Mention
J. Wither, S. DiVerdi, and T. Höllerer. Evaluating Display Types for AR Selection and Annotation. In Proc. ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) Nov. 13, 2007.
T. Höllerer, J. Wither, S. DiVerdi. "Anywhere Augmentation": Towards Mobile Augmented Reality in Unprepared Environments. In: G. Gartner, M.P. Peterson, and W. Cartwright (Eds.), Location Based Services and TeleCartography, Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 393-416.
J. Wither, S. DiVerdi, T. Höllerer. Using Aerial Photographs for Improved Mobile AR Annotation. In Proc. for the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Oct. 22-25, 2006.
J. Wither and T. Höllerer. Evaluation of Interaction Choices for Outdoor Augmented Reality. In Proc. for the ISMAR Student Reseach Colloquium, Oct. 22, 2006.
J. Wither and T. Höllerer. Pictorial Depth Cues for Outdoor Augmented Reality. In Proc. for the International Symposium on Wearabe Computers (ISWC), Oct. 18-21, 2005. Best Paper Nominee
A. Black, T. Kuo, M. Peljhan, M. Quinn, B. Springer, J. Wither. Spheres of Influence. In the Interactve Digital Muimedia IGERT Annual Research Review, Oct. 10, 2005.
J. Wither. Interaction and Annotation at a Distance in Outdoor Augmented Reality. Masters Thesis, September 2005.
J. Wither and T. Höllerer. Evaluating Techniques for Interaction at a Distance. In Proc. for the International Symposium on Wearabe Computers, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2004.
