We were thrilled to see CDE Research Engineer Kwamina Edum-Fotwe graduate with his EngD last week. Huge congratulations to Kwamina and his supervisory team Dr Paul Shepherd at the University of Bath and Dan Harper from Cityscape.
Good luck with everything in the Future Dr Edum-Fotwe!
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We were so proud of Research Engineer Asha Ward for getting to the Final stage of the EPSRC Connected Pioneers Competition. Asha attended the ceremony in Manchester and is pictured here with host Rachel Riley.
Ashaâs multimedia presentation was selected as one of the finalists for the ‘Making Digital Technology Work for People’ category.
You can hear Asha talk about her research ‘Music Technology for Users with Complex Needs’ here: http://www.digital-entertainment.org/about-cde/case-studies-2018/
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CDE Research Engineer Ifigeneia Mavridou won ‘Best student short paper’ at the recent International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies 2018, with her paper ‘Towards valence detection from EMG for Virtual Reality applications’.
Congratulations Ifigeneia on your very well-deserved award!
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EPSRC Telling Tales of Engagement Competition 2018
The Digital Economy Theme is running a competition designed to help capture and promote the impact that Research Council funding is having. Three prizes of £10,000 are available to support researchers to further tell the story of research impact in an interesting and engaging way.
Applications close on 10th January 2019. For more information and how to apply: https://epsrc.ukri.org/funding/calls/ttoe2018/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
COMPUTER GRAPHICS INTERNATIONAL CGI 2019
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 17-20 June, 2019
CGI 2019 website: http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi19
Organized by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS)
In cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH
IMPORTANT DATES
Conference, Tutorials and Workshops June 17 – 20, 2019
Visual Computer papers submission
Submission deadline: February 12, 2019
Paper notification: March 24, 2019 Camera-ready April 7, 2019
CGI proceedings (short papers) submission