Larry Hodges, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, College of Information Technology
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

ACADEMIC HISTORY
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University in 1988. He also holds a MS in computer science/engineering from NCSU, a M.A. in religion from Lancaster Theological Seminary and a BA with a double major in mathematics and physics from Elon College.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Dr. Hodges research interests are in software and algorithm development, experimental quantification, and application development for virtual environments. His current research is funded by both government agencies and industry, including grants by the National Science Foundation, Army Research Labs, Hewlett Packard, and Zoo Atlanta.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

	Whitney SL, Sparto PJ, Hodges LF, Babu SV, Furman JM, Redfern MS: Responses to a Virtual Reality Grocery Store in Persons with and without Vestibular Dysfunction. Cyberpsychology & Behavior, 9(2):152-156, 2006.
	Watson, B.A., Hodges, L.F., and Walker, N. (2004). Supra-threshold Control of Peripheral LOD. ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) Special Issue: Proceedings of the 2004 SIGGRAPH Conference 23,3, pp. 750-759.
	Sparto PJ, Whitney SL, Hodges LF, Furman JM, Redfern MS: Simulator sickness when performing gaze shifts within a wide field of view optic flow environment: Preliminary evidence for using virtual reality in vestibular rehabilitation. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2004:1:14, doi:10.1186/1743-0003-1-14 2004.
	Sparto PJ, Furman JM, Whitney SL, Hodges LF, Redfern MS (2004) Vestibular rehabilitation using a wide field of view virtual environment. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 4836-4839.
	Ressler, K.J., Rothbaum, B.O., Tannenbaum, L., Anderson, P., Graap, K., Zimand, E., Hodges, L.F., and David, M. (2004).Cognitive enhancers as adjuncts to psychotherapy: use of D-cycloserine in phobics to facilitate extinction of fear. Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 61, pp. 1136-1144.
	Zimand, E., Anderson, P., Gershon, G., Graap, K., Hodges, L. & Rothbaum, B. (2003). Virtual Reality Therapy: Innovative Treatment for Anxiety Disorders. Primary Psychiatry, Vol. 9, No.7, pp. 51-54.
	Anderson, P., Rothbaum,B.O., & Hodges, L.F. (2003). Virtual reality exposure in the treatment of social anxiety. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 10, 240-247.
	Krum, D., Omoteso, O., Ribarsky, W., Starner, T., and Hodges, L.F. (To appear). Evaluation of a multimodal interface for 3D terrain visualization. Accepted to IEEE Visualization 2002.
	Zimand, E., Anderson, P., Gershon, G., Graap, K., Hodges, L. & Rothbaum, B. (To appear). Virtual Reality Therapy: Innovative Treatment for Anxiety Disorders. Accepted to Primary Psychiatry.
	Anderson, P., Rothbaum, B. O., & Hodges, L. F. (To appear). Virtual reality in the treatment of social anxiety: Two case reports. Accepted to Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
	Wartell, Z., Hodges, L.F., and Ribarsky, W. (2002). A geometric comparison of algorithms for fusion control in stereoscopic HMDs. IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics 8,2, pp 129-143.
	Gershon, J., Anderson, P., Graap, K., Zimand, E., Hodges, L.F., and Rothbaum, B. (2002). Virtual reality exposure in the treatment of anxiety disorders. Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, 1,1, pp. 76-81.
	Jacobson, J., Redfern, M., Furman, J., Whitney, S., Sparto, P., Wilson, J., Hodges, L.F. (2001). Balance NAVE: a virtual reality facility for research and rehabilitation of balance disorders. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology. (15-17 November, 2001, Banff, CA).