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- ATLAS researchers will present six published works and two workshops at the 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the world鈥檚 preeminent forum for the field of human-computer interaction. The conference, commonly referred to as 鈥淐HI,鈥 will be held hybrid-onsite April 30-May 6, 2022 in New Orleans.
- 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.
- THING Lab researchers, led by recent PhD graduate, Ryo Suzuki, developed a swarm of shape-changing robots that move furniture around a room, opening up new haptic ideas for virtual reality.
- ATLAS researchers and Ericsson Research project collaborators are exploring ways in which remote drumming experiences can be made more enjoyable despite the latency, including drumming with avatars.
- Pufferbot is an aerial robot with an expandable protective structure that deploys to encircle the drone and prevent the drone's rotors from coming in contact with obstacles or people.
- RoomShift is a haptic and dynamic environment that could be used to support a variety of virtual reality (VR) experiences.
- TechXplore writes about PufferBot, an actuated, expandable structure that can be used to fabricate shape-changing aerial robots.
- At a time when the field of human-computer interaction is becoming more important than ever, ATLAS researchers are making substantial contributions, contributing nine papers and two workshops to CHI '20.
- Research from ATLAS Institute's IRON Lab聽involving utilizing聽augmented reality聽to gain information about a robot's intended path of motion was featured on the globally broadcast program,聽"Beyond Innovation." The program features the latest business and technology trends.
- Hooman Hedayati, a computer science PhD student based in the ATLAS Institute鈥檚 Interactive Robotics and Novel Technologies (IRON) Lab, participated in a prestigious summer internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he worked on teaching robots social skills in group conversations.