The Mandarin Project – a reboot of an initiative launched in 2012 to combine narrative, game design, and augmented and virtual reality to teach Chinese — is the latest manifestation of CISL, which is dedicated to pioneering immersive and cognitive systems as an aid to collaborative problem-solving.

Three CISL Collaborators — Jonas Braasch, School of Architecture, CISL; Mei Si, Cognitive Science Department, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS); and Yalun Zhou, Department of Communication and Media, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Mandarin Project — have been awarded a 2017 Rensselaer KIP grant to investigate new virtual reality methods to teach students pitch-related abilities including learning pitch contours for tone languages (Chinese) and correct intonation for musical instruments in conservatory-style education environments.

CISL Collaborators Professor Jonas Braasch and Samuel Chabot will present “An Immersive Virtual Environment for Congruent Audio-Visual Spatialized Data Sonifications” at the 23rd International Conference of Auditory Display at Penn State.

The Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory (CISL) at Rensselaer hosted a related workshop on cognitive and immersive systems, including a demonstration of the “situations room” the lab is developing as part of an ongoing collaboration between Rensselaer and IBM.

RPI creating facility through partnership with IBM and Watson

CISL Researcher Corey Robinson wins first place for his Oral Presentation on Analogy Visualization at the Eight Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.

The Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory (CISL) is advancing cognitive and immersive environments for collaborative problem-solving.

Six universities, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, have joined with IBM Research to launch the Cognitive Horizons Network, a network committed to accelerating the development of core technologies needed to advance the promise of cognitive computing.