Pericles Varella Gomes


Mailing address:
Rua Maestro Herrmmann 225-2
Parana, 82100-360
Brazil

Email address: gomes@msu.edu

Homepage: http://www.msu.edu/~gomes/

MSU degree: MA in telecomm., Ph.D in Education

Dissertation topic: Usability in Education Software

Current position: Professor PUCPR

Areas of special competence: Game design, Multimedia, Painting, Virtual Reality, Music

Language: Portuguese, Spanish, French

Partial list of research and development projects:

Uma Experiencia de Virtualizacao Universitaria - O EUREKA da PUCPR - Book published in 2003

Universidade Catolica do Parana:
Architecture Web Course: http://www.lami.pucpr.br/cursos/estruturas/
Drawing Web Course: http://www.lami.pucpr.br/users/pvgomes/

MSU Projects and Web sites:
"Usability Feedback in Education Software Prototypes: A Contrastof Users and Experts" - Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, Michigan State University.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/randd/research/usability/index.html

"It's Time for Hypermedia to Move to Talking Pictures"
Carrie Heeter and Pericles Gomes (Published in the Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, winter, 1992).
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/randd/research/talking.html

"Amazonian Carnival", a rich, highly interactive, multi-user,3D virtual environment that evokes the mystery of the Amazon and the steamy sensuality of a Brazilian Carnival. It is part street dance, adventure film, misty fantasy, concert, vivid history, tourist vacation, and part ecology lesson. A consortium of several universities around the world are contributing to this Virtual Reality on the Internet II artistic prototype.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/randd/development/carnival/index.html

The Personal Communicator CD-ROM, brings American Sign Language(ASL) communication capabilities to the desktop and notebook computer. Presented at Siggraph 1993.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/products/pcom/

LETSNet Web Site is a collaborative project with the Collegeof Education to develop and present teacher friendly powerful approaches to using the Internet in K-12 education.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/letsnet/

Discovering Our Environment: A Case Study in the Virgin Islands CD-ROM will use virtual travel and guided discovery learning to explore ecological issues.

The Microbe Zoo (part of the Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology) CD-ROM and Web Site allows learners to explore the hidden world of microbes through a unique, engaging interface (Presented at SIGGRAPH in 1995).
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/zoo/

The Breast Cancer Lighthouse CD-ROM and Web Site serve as a "virtual support group" for women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, sharing personal stories of survivors.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/products/bcl/index.html

The Virtual Reality Research Web CD-ROM offers Comm Tech Labvirtual reality research findings from the BattleTech Center, Fightertown, and Second Person VR. VR research is in progress in collaboration with EDS and Enter Corporation to integrate SMELL into virtual reality experiences (Presented at Siggraph in 1994).

Hands on Hawaii is a prototype of a second-person Virtual Reality system that integrates the user's real hands into a virtual video environment. The interface allows the user to manipulate and explore the photo realistic Hawaiian Islands with their hands. A follow-on cross platform CD-ROM was developed to compare the experiences between the two forms of communications (Presented at SIGGRAPH in 1993).

AMERITECH's New Product Showroom - a kiosk system developed for Ameritech, at their downtown Lansing Government offices.

Click on MSU is a kiosk system developed for Michigan State University Student Affairs and Services. It combined interactive multimedia and videodisc technologies to provide students with campus information (Presented at SIGGRAPH in 1991).

Martian Life Science Time Machine is a prototype of an educational interactive experience that debates the existence of life on Mars.

Mission To Mars CD-ROM demonstrates the potential of using hypermediato facilitate education and presentation.
http://commtechlab.msu.edu/products/mm/index.html

Windows on Global Change is a prototype of environmental education software that focuses on remote sensing for middle school children.

PhotoFile 2000 is a computer graphic videodisc database developed for Dow Corning.

A Bird's Eye View of the Legislative Service Bureau is an interactive orientation for Michigan government (Presented Multimedia Canada in 1993).

SF2 (Science Fiction * Science Fact) is a prototype done in cooperation with NASA which combined an international online service with broadcast television and freeze frame television.

Greater Lansing CATA is a web site for online public transportation system
information.
http://www.cata.org

Sparrow Health Systems web site.
http://www.sparrow.com