Book Chapters

Ambient Intelligence for Next-generation Augmented Reality
T. Scargill, S. Eom, Y. Chen, M. Gorlatova
Springer Handbook of the Metaverse, Springer, to appear (invited book chapter).

Journal Publications

Edge-assisted Collaborative Image Recognition for Mobile Augmented Reality
G. Lan, Z. Liu, Y. Zhang, T. Scargill, J. Stojkovic, C. Joe-Wong, M. Gorlatova
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 18, No 1, Feb. 2022.

Conference Proceedings

3D Object Detection with VI-SLAM Point Clouds: The Impact of Object and Environment Characteristics on Model Performance
L. Duan, T. Scargill, Y. Chen, M. Gorlatova
To appear in Proc. IEEE ICRA, May 2024

SiTAR: Situated Trajectory Analysis for In-the-Wild Pose Error Estimation [Paper PDF]
T. Scargill, Y. Chen, T. Hu, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE ISMAR, Oct. 2023

Integrated Design of Augmented Reality Spaces Using Virtual Environments [Paper PDF]
T. Scargill, Y. Chen, N. Marzen, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE ISMAR, Oct. 2022 (21% acceptance rate).

EyeSyn: Psychology-inspired Eye Movement Synthesis for Gaze-based Activity Recognition [Paper PDF]
G. Lan, T. Scargill, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE/ACM IPSN ’22, May 2022.
Selected media coverage: vice.com, hackster.io. Highlighted in the university-wide Duke Daily and in the NSF-wide Research News newsletters.

InDepth: Real-time Depth Inpainting for Mobile Augmented Reality [Paper PDF]
Y. Zhang, T. Scargill, A. Vaishnav, G. Premsankar, M. Di Francesco, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. ACM IMWUT ’22, Sep. 2022.

GazeGraph: Graph-based Few-Shot Cognitive Context Sensing from Human Visual Behavior [Paper PDF]
G. Lan, B. Heit, T. Scargill, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. ACM SenSys 2020, Nov. 2020.

Workshop Proceedings

Invisible Textures: Comparing Machine and Human Perception of Environment Texture for AR
T. Scargill, M. Hadziahmetovic, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. ACM Workshop Mobile Immersive Computing, Networking, and Systems (Immercom ’23), Oct 2023 (co-located with ACM MobiCom 2023).
Winner: ACM Immercom 2023 Best Paper Award.

Digital Biomarkers Reflect Stress Reduction After Augmented Reality Guided Meditation: A Feasibility Study
Y. Jiang, W. Wang, T. Scargill, M. Rothman, M. Gorlatova, J. Dunn
In Proc. ACM Workshop on Emerging Devices for Digital Biomarkers, July 2022 (co-located with ACM MobiSys 2022).

Here To Stay: A Quantitative Comparison of Virtual Object Stability in Markerless Mobile AR [Paper PDF]
T. Scargill, G. Premsankar, J. Chen, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE/ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation, May 2022 (co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2022).

Environmental, User, and Social Context-Aware Augmented Reality for Supporting Personal Development and Change [Paper PDF]
T. Scargill, Y. Chen, S. Eom, J. Dunn, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE Workshop for Building the Foundations of the Metaverse, Mar. 2022 (co-located with IEEE VR ’22).

Edge-based Provisioning of Holographic Content for Contextual and Personalized Augmented Reality [Paper PDF]
M. Glushakov, Y. Zhang, Y. Han, T. Scargill, G. Lan, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking (co-located with IEEE PerCom), Austin, TX, Mar. 2020.

Conference Demonstrations

DNN-based SLAM Tracking Error Online Estimation
T. Hu, Y. Chen, T. Scargill, G. Lan, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. ACM MobiCom 2023.

Demo: Catch My Eye: Gaze-Based Activity Recognition in an Augmented Reality Art Gallery [Demo abstract PDF] [Demo Video]
T. Scargill, G. Lan, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. IEEE IPSN ’22, May 2022

Demo: Will It Move? Indoor Scene Characterization for Hologram Stability in Mobile AR [Paper PDF] [Demo Video]
T. Scargill, S. Hurli, J. Chen, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. ACM HotMobile ’21, Feb. 2021.

Poster Presentations

AR Simulations in VR: The Case for Environmental Awareness
R. Byrne, Z. Qu, C. Fronk, S. Eom, T. Scargill, M. Gorlatova
To appear in Proc. IEEE VR, Mar. 2024.

IoT-Enabled Environment Illuminance Optimization for Augmented Reality [Paper PDF] [Demo Video]
T. Scargill, A. Dabrowski, A. Xu, M. Gorlatova
In Proc. ACM Ubicomp ’22, Sep. 2022.
Winner: ACM UbiComp 2022 Best Poster Award.

Technical Reports

Here to Stay: Measuring Hologram Stability in Markerless Smartphone Augmented Reality
T. Scargill, J. Chen, M. Gorlatova
arXiv: 2109.14757, Sep. 2021.

Doctoral Consortium

Context-Aware Markerless Augmented Reality for Shared Educational Spaces [Paper PDF]
T. Scargill
In Proc. IEEE ISMAR ’21, Oct. 2021.

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