GEMLab

Congratulations Hariprashanth Deivasigamani for successfully defending his MCSc thesis! Hari explored ways to use AR to address overplotting issues in time series data. Nicely done, Hari!

Had a grand time yesterday at @GemLabDal for a lab crawl! They demoed some amazing research projects and we learned a lot! Note: today is the last day to apply for the @Lab2MarketCA cybersecurity cohort! Apply here: lab2market.ca/apply/

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Congratulations to Ramanpreet Kaur on her successful MCSc thesis defense titled “VizSSTA: a Hybrid Tablet and Augmented Reality Interface for Space Syntax Data Analysis”. Nice one!

We're recruiting riders to explore the impacts of new road cycling group effort-sharing techniques. Anyone with group riding experience (3+ riders) can participate, regardless of their country of residence. More information can be found here: bit.ly/zwiftStudy

Attending @NocturneHalifax this weekend? 🌚 Be sure to check out the incredible #DalhousieU projects, including this one: bit.ly/3FRRqN5

A nice write up of our exhibit on @dalnews dal.ca/news/2021/10/1…

Floating planets, talking dogs, and wandering avatars, oh my! Come see Standville Museum and Spill, two immersive storytelling experiences, free all week at the Museum of Natural History! #NocHfx21

Two Augmented Reality stories! A quest/adventure story to rescue a kidnapped child; a puzzle game at a sumptuous, gossipy tea party. Free, ages 12+ recommended. October 13-16, 10AM-4PM, Museum of Natural History (1747 Summer St). Part of #nochfx21. facebook.com/events/5893869…

Come to the Museum of Natural History Oct 13-16 and check out Spill and Standville Museum, two interactive stories we've developed in life-sized immersive augmented reality! A collaboration with the Fountain School of Performing Arts @dalfcs @DAL_FASS @DalhousieU @ns_museum

Congratulations Mohammed Alnusayri for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Mohammed iteratively designed, built, and evaluated an adaptable framework supporting proxemic interactions. With @nicmarquardt @osageev, Dr. Israat Haque, @derekfreilly

Congratulations Khalid Tearo on his successful Interdisciplinary PhD defence! Within the context of breast cancer screening, Khalid studied how combining scenarios and participatory design activities elicited more robust and comprehensive feature sets for patient-facing systems.

@IAmSusanPersky @alexrios71 @twi_mar @melslater @Cornell_VR @StanfordVR @anthony_steed @IrisWillaert @ProbablePrime @domnaban @guillefix @auract @NPelechano @Michael_J_Black The @GemLabDal team has been making great use of the #MicrosoftRocketbox avatars in projects like StoryCreatAR, which is a toolkit for spatially-adaptive AR storytelling (being presented soon at IEEE VR 2021)! @derekfreilly #DalhousieU #AR #VR

Dalhousie’s Faculty of Computer Science has a new opening in “Computer Science and Education”. This includes both applications of CS to Education and Education of CS at all age levels, HCI-related aspects. Please retweet, better yet, apply! dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/5069

The last presentation in the second session @ACMIMX Creative Challenge was from @GemLabDal, @DalhousieU led by Derek Reilly (@derekfreilly). Story CreatAR used Space Syntax to map stories to interesting spatial locations.

Kick of meeting of the Snap Creative Challenge imx.acm.org/2020/creative-… with the teams from all around the world that will come together to REIMAGINE THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING WITH AUGMENTED REALITY. Organized by @What2DoNext @andresmh Today guests @anthony_steed @ImmersiveJourno

Congratulations to Akshay for successfully defending his Applied Master's project Curling Virtuoso!

Congratulations to Rob Mundle for successfully defending his MCSc thesis, "A Comparative Analysis of Prototyping Techniques with Youths". Nice work, Rob!

Panel discussions with @gautjac , @dalfcs, @SmarterSpaces3D, and @ArcturusXR. Discussing the various uses of #VR and #AR in various industries at the @SurgeInnovation #hackathon

.@dalfcs’s Dr. Derek Reilly presents on his work within the Graphic and Experiential Media Lab. #VRhackathon