Research in Media Arts and Technology spans a wide range of topics and projects related to digital media: computer music and sound design, interactive art, TransArchitecture, online communities, multimedia signal processing, human-computer interaction, multimedia networking, and much more.
MAT Research Groups and Labs
The Allosphere - Research Lab
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director
Research in a fully immersive, spherical visualization environment with applications in science, engineering, and the arts.
CREATE - Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Curtis Roads
Stephen T. Pope
Themes include distributed multimedia systems, spatial and surround sound, music/sound databases, and application and user interface development.
Four Eyes Lab
Matthew Turk
Research in Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces - a mix of computer vision, augmented reality, mobile and wearable computing, and human computer interaction.
Vision Research Lab
B. S. Manjunath
Research in multimedia signal processing and analysis, including applications in large multimedia databases, bio-image informatics, digital libraries, data hiding, and image processing.
Networking and Multimedia Systems Lab
Kevin Almeroth
Research in the delivery of multimedia data over computer networks.
George Legrady Studio
George Legrady
Aesthetic research through the implementation of complex technologies for new forms of content, narratives and analysis.
Centrifuge.org
Marcos Novak
Research in Media and Virtual Architecture, Transvergence, TransArchitecture.
ViVoNets Lab
Jerry Gibson
Research in video, audio, and voice over wireless networks and multihop heterogeneous networks.
Professional Artists Lab
Nancy Kawalek
Creating and developing new works in film, theatre, television, radio and multimedia performance.
Interactive Digital Multimedia Program
NSF-funded IGERT program for interdisciplinary research centered on digital media.