Facilities
Tech Commons II
Getting here
Park in the lot north of the faculty lot beside Millican Hall, and walk south past Millican Hall to Tech Commons II. We are in rooms 103 and 103A, across from Café Bustelo.
Visitors without a UCF permit need a virtual parking pass.
The Studio, room 103, is where students prototype, design studies and run early tests.
- Opened
- 2026
Parallel testing
A unique capability of the Sawyer Laboratory is running up to 300 participants in a single session, across several adjoining computer laboratories.
Every terminal can be fitted with a study’s own software and hardware, so a large sample can be collected in one session.
The populations available at UCF
- Students
- 70,674 in fall 2025: 60,083 undergraduate, 10,120 graduate, 471 in medicine
- First-generation students
- 21.9% of undergraduates in spring 2021
- Older adults
- LIFE at UCF, the Learning Institute for Elders, for ages 50 and over, has nearly 800 members, and taking part in research is part of its mission. Legacy Pointe at UCF, a retirement community, is beside campus
- Accessibility groups
- Student groups for neurodivergent students and students with disabilities, among them Knight PALS, the Society of Innovation and Neurodiversity in Engineering, Best Buddies at UCF and the Special Olympics College Club
- Military and veterans
- About 4,000 military-connected students, including more than 3,300 veterans; Army and Air Force ROTC on campus
- Hispanic-Serving Institution
- Since 2019; 31% of students are Hispanic or Latino
- Over 25
- 19% of students
- Fully online
- 7,068 students
From UCF Facts, UCF’s School of Social Work, LIFE at UCF, Central Florida Public Media (2022), Legacy Pointe at UCF, KnightConnect, UCF News and UCF’s 2026 Accountability Plan.
Instruments
A bespoke driving simulator for readability-while-driving studies and other advanced interface work. It includes an Apple Vision Pro interface.
Which words a reader stops on, and how long a driver’s eyes leave the road. We write our own code to process what the trackers record.
- Eye trackers
- A custom Apple Vision Pro eye tracker; Pupil Labs Invisible glasses; an SR Research desktop tracker
A virtual cabin around a real seat, or a planning table in the room. We deconstruct and modify mixed-reality headsets to provide new capabilities, and our students build the scenes we test in them.
- Headsets
- Every Oculus and Meta Quest headset, back to the original Kickstarter Rift
- VR space
- A dedicated space, 14 feet by 14 feet
We have OpenBCI and B-Alert X10 EEG systems.
Visit and contact
Rooms 103 and 103A, Tech Commons II
University of Central Florida
12710 Pegasus Drive
Orlando, Florida 32816
To visit, write to us and tell us who is coming and what you want to see.