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2026 Bass Chairs

| Duke Office of Undergraduate Education

Professor Gorlatova Named 2026 Bass Chair

Professor Gorlatova is among nine faculty members university-wide who were named 2026 Bass Chairs this spring, joining the Bass Society of Fellows. This prestigious distinction honors faculty whose teaching and research exemplify Duke’s commitment to undergraduate education.

ACM HotMobile Best Demo

ACM HotMobile 2026 Best Demo Award

Dr. Hanting Ye, PhD student Tianyi Hu, and undergraduate students Val Kasabrukhau and Sulaiman Khydyr win the ACM HotMobile 2026 Best Demo Award

ARMada demo

New Demonstration: AR-Mediated HRC Platform Presented at ACM HotMobile 2026

Duke I3T Lab PhD student Christian Fronk demonstrated a Meta Quest 3 platform for interactions with a UniTree Go2 robot dog at ACM HotMobile 2026

ICU patient trying a VR exergame

New Publication: VR Exergame for Rehabilitation in the ICU Appearing at IEEE TVCG 2026

Duke I3T XR-based rehabilitation study appearing in IEEE TVCG 2026

Panel presentation by PI Gorlatova

PI Gorlatova Served on the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) Panel

Professor Gorlatova shared her thoughts on the last and next 10 years of edge computing

AR-TMT setup

New Publication: AR-TMT: Investigating the Impact of Distraction Types on Attention and Behavior in AR-based Trail Making Test

Duke I3T Lab examines distractions in AR in a paper appearing in ACM VRST

XR Security Workshop

XR Security, Privacy, and Trust Workshop Held in Houston, TX

PI Gorlatova organized a new XR Security workshop jointly with Bin Li (PSU) and Ming Li (UT Arlington)

VR ICU

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Transforming Reality: How Gaming Gear is Impacting Health Care

An article in Duke I/O Magazine profiles Duke I3T’s work on XR-based rehabilitation for ICU patients

Lin Duan Sarah Eom Defense

Congratulations to Dr. Lin Duan and Dr. Sarah Eom!

Two Duke I3T PhD students defended their dissertations this week

Breaking Low app design

| University of Michigan Electrical and Computer Engineering

NSF TIP Breaking Low Award Supports Duke I3T Research on 5G-Supported Collaborative XR

A multidisciplinary Duke University team led by PI Gorlatova has joined a multi-university effort led by PI Jiasi Chen (University of Michigan) to enable low-latency communications for multi-user XR

Different 3D object generation pipelines demonstrated

IEEE Universal Augmented Interaction Workshop Best Paper Award

Duke I3T Paper Evaluating 3D Object Generation Models Wins the Best Paper Award at a Workshop Co-Located with IEEE ISMAR

DARPA Directors Fellowship Award

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Making Augmented Reality Safer: Maria Gorlatova Wins DARPA Director’s Fellowship

PI Gorlatova receives a prestigious award given to the top performers in the DARPA Young Faculty Award pool

IEEE ISMAR 2025 best paper award

IEEE ISMAR 2025 Best Paper Award

Duke I3T Lab mixed reality safety and security research is recognized with a top XR venue Best Paper Award

PI Gorlatova leading breakout session

PI Gorlatova Co-led a Breakout Session on Edge AI at the NSF CSR PI Meeting

PI Gorlatova co-led an effort to outline the future of computer systems research in the era of big AI, XR, and robotics

Teaser for the XR Reality Check paper

New Publication: XR Reality Check: What Commercial Devices Deliver for Spatial Tracking

Duke I3T Lab students characterize the performance of commercial XR headsets in a paper appearing at IEEE ISMAR 2025