The mission of Envision Center for Data Perceptualization is to serve, support, and collaborate with faculty, students, and industry to be a leader in scientific visualization,and human computer interaction, through learning, discovery, and engagement.

Researchers in the Envision Center explore novel computer graphics, advanced visualization, and human computer interface technologies, such as auditory, haptic, and multimodal interaction. These technologies are integrated with state-of-the-art advanced computation and networking, and high-end immersive visualization environments to assist researchers and industry in their quest for new knowledge and innovative products. The Envision Center will be a window into computational aspects of science and engineering, providing effective means to communicate complex research results to students, researchers and the general public.

Our aim is to enable the development and practical application of collaborative perceptualization science.

Our focus is on the research, development, integration, and evaluation of high-end technologies and systems that extend and complement commercially available tools.

Our motivation is the belief that tele-immersion provides the ideal framework for exploring new ideas, discovering new knowledge, and communicating research results through collaborative virtual reality (VR) environments, advanced scientific visualization, interfaces to high-performance computing systems, and related human performance issues.