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    • Protecting Facial Privacy Through Face Swapping
    • Privacy and Security in Eye Tracking
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    • Optimizing Highly Automated Driving Systems for People with Cognitive Disabilities
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May 7, 2025: Ethan successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Wilson!

Ethan successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Wilson!

March 21, 2024: Ethan, Azim, Karina, Shakthi and Dr. David-John Attended IEEE VR’24 hosted at Disney Contemporary Resort.

March 21, 2024: Ethan presents “Privacy-Preserving Gaze Data Streaming in Immersive Interactive Virtual Reality: Robustness and User Experience” at IEEE VR 2024

June 15, 2023: See ScienceNews article: How understanding horses could inspire more trustworthy robots

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May 23, 2023: Ethan to present “Introducing Explicit Gaze Constraints to Face Swapping” at ETRA 23. Preprint now available.

Download the preprint here: ExplicitGaze_ETRA23  

April 25, 2023: See ScienceDaily and Equus Magazine Articles: How a horse whisperer can help engineers build better robots

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April 25, 2023: Dr. Jain presents “Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction” at ACM SIGCHI 2023

Dr. Jain presents “Horse as Teacher: How human-horse interaction informs human-robot interaction” at ACM SIGCHI 2023 Watch a video on the story of this work. Read coverage by ScienceDaily and Equus magazines.

April 24, 2023: See UF News Article: How A Horse Whisperer Can Help Engineers Build Better Robots

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Ethan and Karina attended IEEE VR’23 Satellite Event hosted by Virginia Tech

Upcoming presentation on “Privacy-preserving datasets of eye-tracking samples with applications in XR” at IEEE VR 2023. Congratulations Brendan!

Upcoming presentation on “Privacy-preserving datasets of eye-tracking samples with applications in XR” at IEEE VR 2023. Congratulations Brendan!    

Dr Jain named to ACM Executive Committee

Jain Named to ACM Executive Committee – Computer & Information Science & Engineering (ufl.edu)

Joe Marks (CTO (Weta Digital) @ Unity) visits with the Jainlab during colloquium visit

Making virtual reality burgers!

Karina LaRubbio is accepted to OurCS workshop at Carnegie Mellon. Congratulations Karina!

Eakta Jain is a panelist at SIGGRAPH ’22 – Privacy, Safety and Wellbeing: Solutions for the Future of AR and VR panel

Field Trip to Horse Teaching Unit (Fall ’21)

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  • 1889 Museum Rd, Malachowsky Data Sciences and Information Technology Building, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL, 32611
  • Phone: 352-294-6653
  • Fax: 352-273-0738,
  • Email: ejain@cise.ufl.edu
  • Mailing Address P.O. Box 116120 Gainesville, FL 32611
  • Address for packages: 1889 Museum Road, Suite #5400, Gainesville FL 32611

News

  • May 7, 2025: Ethan successfully defends his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Wilson!
  • April 20, 2025: The manuscript “Opto-diversity and Eye Tracking: Assumptions about ocular alignment in VR eye tracking exclude users with strabismus and amblyopia” has been accepted to ACM TAP 2025. Congratulations to Shaina and Shakthi!
  • March 18, 2025: Bryce Grame speaks about eye tracking and transit bus driving on WCJB.
  • Sept 1, 2024: Dr. Jain serves ACM SIGGRAPH as Chair of the Executive Committee for the year 2024-25.
  • July 13, 2024: Dr. Jain speaks about human-horse interaction on the “Robots for the Rest of Us” podcast.
  • June 18, 2024: is a summer visiting researcher at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute.
  • May 21, 2024: Dr. Jain speaks about human-horse interaction on the BBC World Service program Unexpected Elements.
  • May 10, 2024: Karina LaRubbio has accepted a Ph.D. offer at Brown University. Congratulations, Karina!
  • May 6, 2024: Dr. Jain is an invited speaker at the AAMAS 2024 workshop RAD-AI on the topic “Rebellion and Disobedience in HRI: Insights from Human-horse interaction”
  • April 15, 2024: Ethan accepts an internship offer at Meta Reality Labs Research! Congratulations Ethan!

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  • Principal Investigator
  • Members
  • Research
    • AVAIL: Anonymization of Videos using AI for Large scale data sharing
    • Protecting Facial Privacy Through Face Swapping
    • Privacy and Security in Eye Tracking
    • Personal safety in VR
    • Human Horse Interaction
    • Optimizing Highly Automated Driving Systems for People with Cognitive Disabilities
    • Completed Projects
      • Advancing the future work of nuclear operators through virtual reality-based training
      • 3D Social Saliency from Head-mounted Cameras
      • Perception of Computer Generated Faces
      • Creating Child-like Characters
      • Three-dimensional Proxies for Hand-drawn Characters
      • Augmenting Hand Animation with Three-dimensional Secondary Motion
      • Eye-tracking for Online User Experience
      • Eyetracking and Comics
      • Gaze-driven Video Re-editing
      • Inferring Artistic Intention in Comic Art through Viewer Gaze
      • Predicting Primary Gaze Behavior using Social Saliency Fields
      • Workforce & Safety Training in XR
      • Measuring Behavioral and Physiological Responses in Videos and VR
      • Leveraging the Talent of Hand Animators to Create Three-Dimensional Animation
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