The second Bath PGR Conference on Computer Science (BCCS 2017) is now open for submissions. This year the event will be on 31 May 2017 at the Edge of University of Bath. It is a one-day event being held to demonstrate the latest fruitful research that is being done by all in Computer Science at...
There will be an HCI seminar on 5th April, starring Paul Cairns, Reader at University of York. This seminar will take place on Wednesday 05 April, room 1WN 3.11, from 13:15 to 14:05. Exploring engagement through games ABSTRACT Engagement is considered an important experience for users to have with all sorts of interactive systems....
The CAMERA team is very pleased to welcome Xiaokun (Kelvin) Wu to the team. Kelvin joins us from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and will be working closely work with Prof Eamonn O’Neill and Dr Yongliang Yang. Kelvin is aiming at delivering high quality working solutions to virtual reality problems;...
This month the Department of Computer Science’s seminar, 12.15-12.45 in 1W 3.30, hears from Dr Leon Watts discussing the notion of slowbotics and how performing work at a slower rate may be suitable for a range of social interactions between humans and machines. Title: Slowbotics: Wasting time wisely on social actions in human-robot interaction...
Richard Dinnis (Art Director) and Dan Harper (Managing Director) from Cityscape will be coming to the University of Bath on Friday 03 March and will be giving a talk at 14:15 in 8W 2.27. The company is currently hosting a CDE EngD student who is writing up his thesis. The talk...
With thanks to Daniel J. Finnegen for this insight into his work on Personalized Spatial Audio Content for VR Applications as part of the CAMERA team. When viewing any 3D experience, be it a movie, game, or interactive virtual reality (VR), objects don’t just jump out of the screen. They whirl around...
Wednesday 01 February saw the launch of the Centre’s monthly update meetings spanning the entirety of CAMERA’s work. The sessions are accessible to people from any specialism/department across CAMERA to serve as a general introduction or update on activity. This session saw excellent presentations from five of our PhD students...
Fully Funded PhD Available To Investigate Video Dressing Virtual Actors: Modelling Cloth and Clothing from Video An exciting opportunity is available to join the CAMERA team to study for a fully-funded PhD under the supervision of Professor Peter Hall. This PhD will investigate a different approach to making models of cloth...
We are very pleased to welcome Dr Nadejda Roubtsova to the CAMERA team. Nadejda will be working with CAMERA Director, Dr Darren Cosker and Dr Colin Davidson, Chief Scientist at The Imaginarium on the HARPC funded project. The project aims to create a solution enabling characters in video games to be controlled...
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