research
- Julia Uhr, an ATLAS PhD student and researcher in the ACME Lab, has created a fun 3D visual programming language that empowers novice coders to create customized VR environments while inside those environments.
- 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