On 8th April 2019, CDE Research Engineers got together at Hamilton House in London for a CDE Peer Research Workshop. This event which was suggested by and planned by the students themselves, allowed our researchers to present their research and experience of being an EngD student to their peers. This was followed up by feedback sessions and group discussions of specific research questions in the afternoon.
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At the end of March CDE Research Engineer Joanna Tarko attended IEEE VR 2019, the 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces in Osaka Japan. Joanna worked as a Student Volunteer at the conference and also presented a poster on her research on Omnidirectional Mixed reality.
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On 20th March 2019, CDE Research Engineer Ifigeneia Mavridou gave a lecture on the first day of the International Conference in Virtual Reality, at the Laval Virtual, in Laval, France. The lecture was titled ‘Emerging Affect Detection Methodologies in VR and Future Directions’ which received a lot of interest and triggered discussions as the area of emotion detection in Virtual Reality is still in its early stages. The Laval Virtual conference and exhibition was running for the 21st time this year and gathered 20,000 visitors which makes it the largest immersive technologies event in the world, dedicated to VR/AR/MR
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We are excited to announce that the article on Flow and Immersion in Video Games: The Aftermath of a Conceptual Challenge, by CDE Research EngineerLazaros Michailidisand BU academicsDr Emili Balaguer-Ballester and Dr Xun He, has been cited within Forbes [online], published 3rd April 2019. Congratulations to all members of the team. You can read the article at Forbes online.
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On 3rd April CDE was thrilled to welcome Mark Burvill from Aardman Animations to the University of Bath. It was really interesting to hear him talk about projects in VR, games, web applications and TV. CDE Research Engineers also got the chance to present their research to Mark.