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My name is Matt Gottsacker. I am a Computer Science PhD student at the University of Central Florida. I do research in the SREAL Lab advised by Prof. Greg Welch. We research how humans interact with augmented, mixed, and virtual reality technologies. My particular interests lie in understanding how these technologies can interact with the traditional boundaries with which we frame physical reality rather than merely mimicking them. Concretely, I am working on an experiment to test different methods of blending a non-VR person's presence into the VR user's virtual environment. You can read more about that and some of my other work on the projects page.

For a deeper dive into my approach to research and some of the things I'm thinking of working on, click on interests.

Recently, I taught a Computer Programming course at Marquette University High School as part of the Alumni Service Corps. Before that, I studied CS at Saint Louis University and minored in English with a concentration on Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology. If you're interested in how those (and other) experiences have shaped me, head to my bio section.

Feel free to drop me a note if you're looking to collaborate or talk.

Résumé

GitHub

acknowledgments

These are some of the things I used to build this space:

Thomas Park's Bootswatch theme. I use the Bootstrap library to make some of the styling and basic web interactions easier.
Glitched images generated by Georg Fischer's Image Glitch Tool
Map markers: Font Awesome by Dave Gandy - https://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome [CC BY-SA 3.0]
Express Framework. This gives me a nice and straightforward scaffold with which I organize my backend work.
Node.js. This runs the site's backend.
Amazon Lightsail. This hosts all of the above.

contact me

e-mail me at matt [dot] gottsacker [at] gmail [dot] com. Feedback and collaboration ideas are welcome.

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