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- ATLAS PhD Candidate Shanel Wu聽(they/them)聽recently was awarded a $50,000聽Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) Traiblazer Fellowship. Wu, a member of Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf's聽Unstable Design Lab, will use the fellowship to support their dissertation project, making open hardware interfaces for the loom and using that as a case study to explore issues of doing open hardware in academia.
- While participating in an art residency in Lisbon, ATLAS Assistant Professor Joel Swanson is working on a new body of work, 鈥淭he Distance Between Words,鈥 which explores the various ways to measure the distance within
- Imagine a world where robots flawlessly detect everyone in a conversation group and also greet the newcomers. Described in聽a paper聽published in the March proceedings of the prestigious International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 聽(HRI '22),聽Hooman Hedayati聽聽(PhD computer science '20) and Daniel Szafir, assistant professor of computer science at UNC Chapel Hill聽and former ATLAS faculty member, proposed a method to overcome situations when conversational group (F-formation) detection algorithms fail.
- Museum of Boulder鈥檚 new exhibit, Voces Vivas: Stories from the Latino Community in Boulder County, Past and Present聽features Andrea Fautheree M谩rquez's thesis project, "Chicana Light," which explores the Chicano civil rights movement in Colorado.
- Varsha Koushik, an ATLAS affiliated PhD student and a member of the Superhuman Computing Lab, won the Three-Minute Thesis Competition. Anthony Pinter, an incoming teaching assistant professor (starting fall 2022) in the ATLAS Institute and a PhD candidate in information science at the University of Colorado Boulder, was a runner-up.
- Wayne Seltzer started his own repair business when he was in the eighth grade; now a retired engineer, he's part of the global fix-it movement.
- Did you just see a Facebook 鈥渕emory鈥 of you and your ex from Valentine鈥檚 Day鈥hree years ago, and now you鈥檙e bummed or just annoyed? You can blame the algorithms, says Anthony Pinter, a doctoral student in 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 information science department, and soon-to-be ATLAS Institute faculty member.
Pinter studies ways to make algorithms, which work behind the scenes to make social media platforms work, more sensitive to us as humans, rather than just data leveragers - ATLAS PhD student Shanel Wu is tackling how to reduce the waste from the rapidly expanding e-textile industry by investigating design practices that make it easier to recycle or reuse electronics and the textiles in which they are embedded.
- ATLAS Teaching Assistant Professor Danny Rankin discusses design, logo and branding on the Feb. 2 episode of Donuts, Design & Debate, a podcast about design from the creators of SketchUp Talk.