Social media can help people without speech communicate more naturally. Work carried out by Per Ola featured in the University News today.
Research
Virtual reconstruction of the Acropolis Basilica
The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog
A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place.
The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011.
Technical support was available in regular laboratory sessions; in addition students had input from experts in the history and architecture of the cathedral and direct access to the physical site.
A key innovative aspect of this project was to situate the reconstruction within the immersive 3D virtual world OpenSim. This allows visitors to explore the reconstruction through the proxy of an avatar.
St Andrews research featured on HPC in the cloud
Research by Ian Gent and Lars Kotthoff into the suitability of virtualised hardware for computational experiments is featured in a recent article of the HPC in the cloud site. The article contains a description of the research and an interview with Lars Kotthoff.
Read more at HPC in the cloud.
Dr Tom Kelsey launches iPhone app for IVF-Predict
Calculator that returns chances of a live birth for a planned IVF cycle.
IVF-Predict Support.
IVFpredict was developed by Professor Scott Nelson and Professor Debbie Lawlor and published in PLOS Medicine.
In conjunction with Dr Tom Kelsey they have transformed this complex formula into a simple online and smartphone based calculator.
Best paper nomination in pervasive health
Dr Juan Ye and Graeme Steveson’s paper on accessing rich data was nominated for the best paper award at the recent PervasisiveHealth conference.
Summer School on Multimodal Systems for Digital Tourism
The focus of this summer school is to introduce a new generation of researchers to the latest research advances in multimodal systems, in the context of applications, services and technologies for tourists (Digital Tourism). Where mobile and desktop applications can rely on eyes down interaction, the tourist aims to keep their eyes up and focussed on the painting, statue, mountain, ski run, castle, loch or other sight before them. In this school we focus on multimodal input and output interfaces, data fusion techniques and hybrid architectures, vision, speech and conversational interfaces, haptic interaction, mobile, tangible and virtual/augmented multimodal UIs, tools and system infrastructure issues for designing interfaces and their evaluation.
We have structured this summer school as a blend of theory and practice.
Further information on the summer school on the SACHI site.
Event details
- When: 27th June 2011 - 1st July 2011
- Where: Honey Bldg
- Format: Summer School