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Haley Adams, PhD

Google
California, USA
haley.xr.adams@gmail.com

Publications

Publications are grouped by section:  Dissertation,  Journal & Conference Proceedings,  or  Presentations.

PhD Dissertation

Two augmented reality head-mounted displays are shown: the Varjo XR-3 (a video see-through display) and the Microsoft HoloLens 2 (an optical see-through display).

Designing Mixed Reality to Improve Spatial Perception and Accessibility
Haley Adams
Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University 2024
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  


Journal & Conference Proceedings

Two pairs of gray spheres are shown. The two on the left are rendered with shadows; the two on the right are rendered wit glowing rings underneath them. For each pair, the left sphere is on the ground and the right sphere is floating above the ground.

Perceiving Absolute Distance in Augmented Reality Displays with Realistic and Non-realistic Shadows
Bobby Bodenheimer, Haley Adams, Mirinda Whitaker, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2023
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  

Two augmented reality head-mounted displays are shown: the Varjo XR-3 (a video see-through display) and the Microsoft HoloLens 2 (an optical see-through display).

Depth Perception in Augmented Reality: The Effects of Display, Shadow, and Position
Haley Adams, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR 2022
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]  

A virtual wooden box sits on top of a table nearby. There is no cast shadow rendered beneath it.

Shedding Light on Cast Shadows: An Investigation of Perceived Ground Contact in AR and VR
Haley Adams, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Grant Pointon, William Thompson, Bobby Bodenheimer
TVCG 2021
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]  

Two virtual environments are shown. Both are stairwells with objects strewn about. In the left image, objects are all positioned at eye height. In the right image, objects are positioned at, below, and above eye height.

Encoding Height: Egocentric Spatial Memory of Adults and Teens in a Virtual Stairwell
Gayathri Narasimham, Haley Adams, John Rieser, Bobby Bodenheimer
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2020
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  

A woman stands at the edge of three virtual gaps presented by the Microsoft HoloLens. The leftmost gap is 0.25m deep. The center gap is 1.0m deep. And the third gap is 1.5m deep.

Danger from the Deep: A Gap Affordance Study in Augmented Reality
Hansen Wu, Haley Adams, Grant Pointon, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR 2019 Workshop on Perceptual and Cognitive Issues in AR (PERCAR)
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]  

A woman with brown hair is wearing a HoloLens 1 display. She faces away from the camera towards an empty classroom with chairs along the walls. An offwhite virtual cube is superimposed on the ground in front of her.

Distance Judgments to On- and Off-Ground Objects in Augmented Reality
Carlos Salas Rosales, Grant Pointon, Haley Adams, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr, William B. Thompson, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR 2019
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]

Illustration of the CNN architecture used for walking in place activity detection. Our method uses a sequence of IMU data as input for the network, which is trained to recognize walking and standing actions.

Improving Walking in Place Methods with Individualization and DeepNetworks
Sara Hanson, Richard A. Paris, Haley Adams, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR 2019
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]  

A screenshot of a VR user pointing to an ear structure within a semi-transparent 3d model of the human skull. A CT scan of the skull is shown on the wall.

Development and Evaluation of an Immersive Virtual Reality System for Medical Imaging of the Ear
Haley Adams, Justin Shinn, William G Morrel, Jack Noble, Bobby Bodenheimer
SPIE: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling 2019
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]  

A picture of a person walking on wooden slats while wearing an HTC Vive head-mounted display

Perception of Height in Virtual Reality -- A Study of Climbing Stairs
Noorin Asjad, Haley Adams, Richard Paris, Bobby Bodenheimer
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2018
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video demo ]  

A young child tosses an HTC Vive controller to an experimenter who is posed to catch it. An inflatible air mattress and tiled foam squares are on the ground to protect the equipment from errant tosses.

Locomotive and Prism Recalibration of Children and Teens in Immersive Virtual Environments.
Haley Adams, Gayathri Narasimham, John Rieser, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Jeanine Stefanucci, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR 2018 (TVCG)
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ video ]   [ slides ]  

A birds-eye view of the virtual environment is presented. A roundabout is displayed in which three cars are circulating. Sparse trees and buildings populate the area around the traffic circle

3D Sound Rendering in a Virtual Environment to Evaluate Pedestrian Street Crossing Decisions at a Roundabout.
Haojie Wu, Daniel Ashmead, Haley Adams, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR Workshop on Sonic Interactions for Virtual Environments (SIVE) 2018
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  

A central scotoma is simulated using a radial opacity and blur field at the center of the screen. The dark opacity is circumscribed by the blur field. The view of two cars in a virtual environment roundabout are obscured.

Using Virtual Reality to Assess the Street Crossing Behavior of Pedestrians with Simulated Macular Degeneration at a Roundabout
Haojie Wu, Daniel Ashmead, Haley Adams, Bobby Bodenheimer
Frontiers in Virtual Environments 2018
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  

Female middle and high school students crowd around a 3D printer, which is supervised by an undergraduate camp counselor.

Evaluating Computer Science Camp Topics in Increasing Girls' Confidence in Computer Science
Hannah Chipman, Haley Adams, Betsy Williams Sanders, Brian Larkins
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges 2018
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  



Presentations

An image with two, floating spheres above a granite surface are shown. They have a faded white highlight beneath them instead of a shadow..

Depth Perception and Stylized Graphics in AR HMDs
Haley Adams
IEEE ISMAR Workshop on Perceptual and Cognitive Issues in AR (PERCxR) 2022
[ PERCxR ]  

The logo for XR Access is shown. A stick person is surrounded by circular, directional arrows.

Research to Practice in XR Accessibility
Ricardo Gonzalez, Raja Kushalnagar, Steven Feiner, Haley Adams
XR Access Symposium 2022
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A virtual environment with two white, anthropromorphic robots. Wooden birdhouses are scattered around them in an open field at night.

Judging Distances to Virtual Objects Generated by Optical and Video See-Through Augmented Reality
Bobby Bodenheimer, Haley Adams, Jeanine Stefanucci, Sarah Creem-Regehr
Vision Science Society (VSS) 2022
[ poster ]  

The Hi5 Lab banner is shown along with the text 'High Fidelity' Lab. The logo text is a bright green.

A Strange View: Using Perception to Improve XR
Haley Adams
Hi5 Seminar Series, Mississippi State University. 2020
[ Hi5 Lab ]   [ video ]  

Transluscent soccer balls are shown on top of a black and white tiled tablecloth. The left soccreball is rendered without a shadow; the right soccerball with a shadow.

Resolving Cue Conflicts in Augmented Reality
Haley Adams
IEEE VR Doctoral Consortium 2020
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]  

A 3d model of a crosssection of the human skull generated from CT scans is shown in a virtual environment

Play it by Ear: An Immersive Ear Anatomy Tutorial
Haley Adams, Jack Noble, William G. Morrel, Alejandro Rivas, Justin Shinn, Robert Labadie, Bobby Bodenheimer
IEEE VR 2019
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ poster ]  

Two images of a classroom wall featuring a cat poster are shown side by side. The left image is virtual. The right image is real.

Spatial Memory of Children and Teens in Immersive Virtual Environments
Gayathri Narasimham, Haley Adams, John Rieser, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Jeanine Stefanucci, Bobby Bodenheimer
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2018
[ pdf ]  

The banner from the HASTAC 2017 conference website. The words 'HASTAC 2017' are curved over an image of the globe. The background is filled with sepia colored space dust

STEManism: Current and Future Horizons of Interdisciplinary Collaboration between the Humanities, Digital Humanities, and STEM
Zachary Mandell, ... Richard Paris, Haley Adams, Kirk St Amant, Andrew Iliadis, Isabel Pedersen
Humanities, Arts, Science, & Technology Alliance & Collaboratory (HASTAC) 2017
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Three middle school girls stand with their arms across each other's shoulders and with their backs facing the camera. They are wearing bright blue camp shirts with 'Camp Codette' on the back.

igniteCS: Addressing Undergraduate CS Retention
Erin Mindell Cannon, Priya Chawla, Katherine Lo, Haley Adams
ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2016
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A virtual environment with two white, anthropromorphic robots. Wooden birdhouses are scattered around them in an open field at night.

The Effect of Interpersonal Familiarity on Cooperation in a Virtual Environment
Haley Adams, Chelsey Thompson, David Thomas, Farah Sharis, Catherine Grace Jernigan, Corrie Moore, Betsy Williams
ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP) 2015
[ doi ]   [ pdf ]   [ poster ]  

A screenshot of a virtual environment where the scene is a grocery store with low fidelity grahpics. Shelves with pasta sauce and noodles are on the right. A line of registers is on the left. The floors are covered in maroon tiles.

Virtual Reality Implementation for Neurocognitive Assessment
Haley Adams, Alyssa Crider, Victoria Interrante
Grace Hopper 2013
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