Ebrahimi, Elham

Ebrahimi, Elham
Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Computer Science , College of Science and Engineering

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2022-09-01	Effects of Small Talk With a Crowd of Virtual Humans on Users' Emotional and Behavioral Responses. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 28:3767-3777. 2022-09-01
2022-09-01	Vaping among College Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic. International Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy. 5. 2022-09-01
2022-01-01	Can Shooter Bias Be Measured in Immersive Virtual Reality?. . 2022-01-01
2019-03-01	Examining the effects of altered avatars on perception-action in virtual reality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 25(1):1-24. 2019-03-01
2017-10-01	Calibration to Tool Use During Visually-Guided Reaching. Acta Psychologica. 181:27-39. 2017-10-01
2016-07-01	An Empirical Evaluation of Visuo-haptic Feedback on Physical Reaching Behaviors during 3D Interaction in Real and Immersive Virtual Environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP). 13:21. 2016-07-01
2016-04-01	Effects of Virtual Human Appearance Fidelity on Emotion Contagion in Affective Inter-Personal Simulations. IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. 22:1326-1335. 2016-04-01

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2022-06-01	Designing virtual environments for smoking cessation: A preliminary investigation -- Virtual, augmented and mixed reality: Design and development. Springer. 410-412. 2022-06-01

Conference Poster

Year	Title	Altmetric
2016-04-01	Towards a comparative evaluation of visually guided physical reach motions during 3D interactions in real and virtual environments. IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces. 237-238. 2016-04-01

Presentations

Comparing Visual Attention with Leading and Following Virtual Agents in a Collaborative Perception-Action Task in VR, IEEE Virtual Reality 2023 2023-03-01
An Evaluation of Native versus Foreign Communicative Interactions on Users' Behavioral Reactions towards Affective Virtual Crowds, IEEE Virtual Reality 2022 2022-03-01
Investigating the Effects of Leader and Follower Behaviors of Virtual Humans in Collaborative Fine Motor Tasks in Virtual Reality, IEEE Virtual Reality 2022 2022-03-01
Leveraging Technology to Improve Healthcare, TAPIA 2019 2019-09-01
Effects of Anthropomorphic Fidelity of Self-Avatars on Reach Boundary Estimation in Immersive Virtual Environments, ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019-08-10
Virtual reality and other research topics in CS, HON 191 2019-03-06
Investigating the Effects of Anthropomorphic Fidelity of Self-Avatars on Near Field Depth Perception in Immersive Virtual Environments, IEEE Virtual Reality 2018-03-20
An empirical evaluation of visuo-haptic feedback on physical reaching behaviors during 3D interaction in real and immersive virtual environments, School of Computing Seminar 2016-09-20
An empirical evaluation of visuo-haptic feedback on physical reaching behaviors during 3D interaction in real and immersive virtual environments, ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2016-07-23
Carryover Effects of Calibration to Visual and Proprioceptive Information on Near Field Distance Judgments in 3D User Interaction, Symposium on 3D User Interfaces Conference 2015-03-24
Effects of Visual and Proprioceptive Information in Visuo-Motor Calibration during a Closed-loop Physical Reach Task in Immersive Virtual Environments, Symposium on Applied Perception Conference 2014-08-09

Research Overview

Dr. Ebrahimi specifically interested in the following two projects serving the underrepresented population; i) assisting people with mental and physical disabilities to explore new ways of coping with a fast-pacing environment and ii) introducing new emerging technologies to overcome the lack of resources in the educational system. The current digital age that we are experiencing has a high potential for helping people. In those eight years, she has designed, implemented, and tested several virtual reality systems collaborating with a wide range of expertise from psychology, gerontology, athletic training, data science, and graphic design. Her past experiences were mainly focused on understanding how human depth perception alters in virtual reality as well as characterizing the human movement in virtual reality simulations.

Principal Investigator On

VIRTUAL REALITY FOR PATIENTS WITH NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS 2020-05-01 - 2020-08-01

Applied Learning Pedagogy Initiative Awards- Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment Simulation 2019-05-01 - 2019-12-01

Hurricane Florence AL Recovery Grant - Computer Gaming Course - 2019-12-01

SURCA - Senior-Home Inspection Simulation 2019-05-01 - 2019-08-01

Pilot Grant Award - A Virtual Tool to Inspect Home Safety Hazards - 2019-05-01

Co-principal Investigator On

Exploratory: Virtual Access to STEM Careers (VASC) 2019-05-01 - 2023-04-01

Leveraging Applied Learning in CSC 131: A Department-wide Initiative Impacting 400 Students Per Year 2019-03-01 - 2019-01-01

Investigator On

Food for Thought: Technology, Community, Health, Access, and Justice 2022-08-01 - 2023-05-01

Meeting at the Table - Interconnecting Food, Chemistry, Technology, Biology and our Community 2021-08-01 - 2022-05-01

Reducing risk for adverse outcomes of COVID-19 with a virtual reality/motivational interviewing approach as a smoking cessation intervention 2020-12-01 - 2021-12-01

Bridging the Diversity Gap: Changing the Narrative Surrounding Minorities in STEM Fields 2021-01-01 - 2021-08-01

Use of vaping products among UNCW students; knowledge and perceptions of vaping products; and associations with gender, ethnicity, smoking and drinking 2021-03-01 - 2021-05-01

Interdisciplinary Innovation Café and Seminar Series: Artificial Intelligence and Health 2019-06-01 - 2020-05-01

Teaching Overview

Dr. Ebrahimi is interested teaching introductory courses to computer science and also high level courses such as computer gaming, virtual reality, human-computer interaction.

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Elham Ebrahimi

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