Floating Charts presented at 3DUI
BIG researcher Themis Omirou presented the paper ‘Floating Charts’ at the 3DUI conference in Greenville South Carolina. The conference was part of the IEEE Virtual Reality conference 2016 which hosted an array of interesting demos involving a variety of VR headsets and augmented reality headwear.
Subtle Interfaces Panel at SXSW
Bristol Interaction Group researcher Peter Bennett attended SXSW last week to present a panel on “Subtle Interfaces: Designing for Calm Tech” along with Verity Macintosh, Chloe Meineck and Tom Metcalfe. Audio recording of the panel below, with a video to follow soon.
Sonic tractor beam goes to Hollywood
Bristol Interaction Group member Asier Marzo demonstrated the world’s first sonic tractor beam to Hollywood actors Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell on the Spanish TV programme El Hormiguero.
6 Papers accepted to CHI 2016
Bristol Interaction group will present six papers at ACM CHI 2016.
Flexible On-Body Coils presented at IEEE
Themis Omirou and Paul Worgan are presenting ‘Flexible On-Body Coils for Inductive Power Transfer to IoT Garments and Wearables’ at the IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things in Milan.
Their paper demonstrates that on body inductive power transfer designers have the flexibility to customise their coils into aesthetic shapes, with performance in accordance with Faraday’s Law of Induction.
1st place as the Peoples’ Choice in the Art of Science Competition
BIG member Asier Marzo won the 1st place as the Peoples’ Choice in the Art of Science Competition.
The Mandelbrot set contains the points (C) that satisfy the purely mathematical condition of not escaping to infinity when iterated as (Zn+1 = Zn^2 + C).
In the picture, we present a modification of the set in which the orbits of each escaping point are drawn (Buddhabrot). Different colours are assigned depending on the amount of the iterations applied before existing a stable orbit.
Engineers and physicist use mathematics as the language to describe reality yet its foundations (ZFC core) are thought to be independent of our existence.
“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.” Paul Dirac