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- CTD senior EO Rafelson has fabricated a high-tech kaleidoscope for his capstone project as well as developed a way to project the patterns generated onto a planetarium dome. His project, 鈥淜aleideo,鈥 will be presented at Fiske Planetarium on Tuesday, Nov. 9 for two free shows.
- In virtual reality, when you reach out and try to touch a visible surface, it normally isn't there. Using a swarm of Rubik's Cube-sized, shape-changing robots, the illusion becomes physical.
- Sasha de Koninck, a member of聽ATLAS Institute's聽Unstable Design Lab, presented her future heirloom project, The Research Lab of Ambiguous Futurology, at the "Making and Doing" exhibition at the 4S hybrid conference, held Oct. 6-9, both in Toronto and virtually.
- To assist first responders and site operators, the ACME Lab developed ARMAS鈥攁ugmented reality maintenance and safety鈥攁 marker-based AR system that lets the user see color-coded visualizations of battery cells inside containers.
- 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 Instructor Annie Margaret 聽is creating a Digital Wellness Summer Program for middle-school girls that provides strategies adolescents can use to minimize the negative psychological impacts of social media.
- Two teams from the ATLAS Institute were selected to participate in Catalyze CU, a highly selective, summer-long startup accelerator that聽combines world-class mentorship,聽funding and dedicated co-working space.
- ATLAS PhD students Katie Gach, Keke Wu, Fiona Bell, Kailey Shara and Sasha Novack, and Affiliated PhD students Gabrielle Johnson, Dreycey Albin and Varsha Koushik recently received graduate school awards.
- ATLAS researchers have聽10 published works and one special interest group associated with the聽CHI 2021 conference, the world鈥檚 preeminent conference for the field of human-computer interaction.聽聽Held virtually, CHI 2021,聽also known as ACM鈥檚 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, took place May 8-13.聽
- During the pandemic lockdown, Laura Devendorf used textiles woven with resistive yarns to document a particular part of her life鈥搕he daily 鈥渇orces鈥 that pressed against her body, especially her two children. Two of her memory fabric innovations are being exhibited at the The Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) in Hong Kong as part of the Interweaving Poetic Code exhibition.