David J. Zielinski
 Virtual Reality Software Engineer
Duke University

email: djzielin AT duke.edu
phone: 919-660-8252
office: 2511 CIEMAS

David J. Zielinski is a computer scientist, software engineer, and associate in research at Duke University. David joined the Visualization Technology Group, under the direction of Rachael B. Brady, in 2004. His interests include: immersive virtual reality, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, computer vision, data visualization, scientific visualization, and audio synthesis. David received his bachelors (2002) and masters (2004) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During his masters work he created a suite of virtual reality musical instruments under the guidance of Bill Sherman. Videos of the project are available here and here. Current software is created using the commercial game engine of Virtools or the open-source library Syzygy.

Publications

Forthcoming: "Evaluating Display Fidelity and Interaction Fidelity in a Virtual Reality Game". Ryan P. McMahan, Doug A. Bowman, David J. Zielinski, Rachael B. Brady. IEEE VR 2012.

"Revealing context-specific conditioned fear memories with full immersion virtual reality". Nicole Huff, Jose Alba Hernandez, Matthew Fecteau, David Zielinski, Rachael Brady, Kevin S LaBar. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 2011. link

"Shadow Walking: an Unencumbered Locomotion Technique for Systems with Under-Floor Projection". David J. Zielinski, Ryan P. McMahan, Rachael B. Brady. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference. p. 167-170, March 19-23, 2011.   paper   slides   video   code   link

"Human Fear Conditioning Conducted in Full Immersion 3-Dimensional Virtual Reality". Nicole C. Huff, David J. Zielinski, Matthew E. Fecteau, Rachael Brady, Kevin S. LaBar. JoVE - Journal of Visualized Experiments. doi: 10.3791/1993. 2010. link

"KinImmerse: Macromolecular VR for NMR ensembles". Jeremy N Block, David J Zielinski, Vincent B Chen, Ian W Davis, E Claire Vinson, Rachael Brady, Jane S Richardson, and David C Richardson. Source Code for Biology and Medicine 2009.   link   paper   code

"VR Visualization as an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Data Exploration Tool for Large Eddy Simulations of Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions". Gil Bohrer, Marcos Longo, David J. Zielinski, Rachael Brady. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing (ISVC). Las Vegas, Nevada, December 1-3, 2008.   link   paper   video

"Exploring Semantic Social Networks using Virtual Reality". Harry Halpin, David J Zielinski, Rachael Brady, Glenda Kelly. Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008.   link   paper   code

"Redgraph: Navigating Semantic Web Networks using Virtual Reality", Harry Halpin, David J. Zielinski, Rachael Brady, Glenda Kelly. Presented as a poster at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2008 Conference, Reno NV. March 8-12. Published in the conference proceedings p 257-258. 2008. link

Installations

"Link Media Wall". Todd Berreth. Steve Feller, Rachael Brady, David J. Zielinski, Sophia Cui. Duke University Link. 2009. link

"soundSpace". Scott Lindroth, Rachael Brady, Steve Feller, David Zielinski, Elizabeth Flemming. NC Museum of Life and Science. 2008-present. link

"Future and History of the Interface". Harry Halpin. Rachael Brady. David Zielinski. Steve Feller. CIEMAS Interactive Studio. 2007. link

"MIX TAPEStry". Allison Clark, John Jennings, Crystal Womble, Bill Keniston, Kathleen Harleman, Hank Kaczmarski, Rose Marshack, Nicholas Duchnowski, Abby Watt, Jim Crowell, Camille Goudeseune, Edward Moses, Jeff Carpenter. Rachael Brady, J-Bully, Scott Lindroth, David Stein, Kitty Brawley, Steve Feller, David Zielinski,Kareem Lee, Harry Halpin, Elan Bresslour, John Stang. CIEMAS Interactive Studio. 2006. link

"soundSense". David Brady, Scott Lindroth, John Bower, Joe Donahue, Rachael Brady, Steve Feller, Casey Alt, John Burchett, David Zielinski, Evan Cull, Zach Pogue, Richard Lucic, Mohan Shankar Christian Liu, Rhazes Spell. CIEMAS Interactive Studio. 2004. link


Past Projects (2004-2011)