Category: Wearable Computing
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Microsoft Mixed Reality Academic Showcase & Networking
Dr Fridolin Wild, director of PAL, was invited to attend a Showcase and Networking meeting at the Microsoft Hololens Lounge in London – as one of twelve universities invited, on May 10, 2018. Microsoft shared some details about the Mixed Reality strategy and observations on the importance of academia as…
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Musings from the Future Tech Now Show
While presenting at the Future Tech Now Show in London on April 5, Dr Fridolin Wild was able to sneak into the new Tesla suit, experiencing the effects of electro-muscular stimulation (EMS) on his own body. The suit embeds muscle-stimulation pads and motion sensors – to be applied in anything…
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TEDx talk
Dr. Fridolin Wild gave a TEDx talk on ‘reality as a medium’, speaking about truth, reality, and perception, and how we can hack into perception to actually ‘make’ reality. The talk will be available online soon.
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EC-TEL 2017 paper presentation in 360
Last week in Tallinn Alla Vovk presented a paper at the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2017) “Affordances for Capturing and Re-enacting Expert Performance with Wearables” written by Will Guest, Fridolin Wild, Alla Vovk, Mikhail Fominykh, Bibeg Limbu , Roland Klemke, Puneet Sharma, Carl H Smith,…
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Artists in residency: Deval and Losseau
Via the Horizon 2020 funded Vertigo project, we will receive an artist in residence to work with our WEKIT project. Vertigo aims to catalyze new synergies between artists, cultural institutions, R&D projects in ICT, companies, incubators, and funds. We will host from December 2017 to October 2018 two artists, Yann…
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Keynote on TEL for Industry 4.0
The director of PAL, Dr Fridolin Wild, presented a keynote to the audience of the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’17, Tallinn, Estonia). Industry 4.0 is on the rise and this coordinated push for automation, big data, and internet-of-things in the smart factory is already causing (and will…
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Real-Time Auditory Biofeedback System for Forearm and Hand Movements
In this master project, Sophie Kirkham is developing a proof of concept prototype for providing real-time auditory feedback to end-users on their arm movement during simple motor tasks, an application that could be used, for example, in rehabilitation of stroke patients who have to regain motor control of their limbs.…
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Best Paper Award
Dr Fridolin Wild won the best paper award for his first authored paper entitled “Technology Acceptance of Augmented Reality and Wearable Technologies” at the Immersive Learning Research Network annual conference that this year took place in Combra, Portugal, from June 26 to 29: Wild F., Klemke R., Lefrere P., Fominykh…
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Transforming industrial learning
A trans-European team of researchers is transforming industrial learning and training with the use of innovative Augmented Reality and Wearable Technology (AR/WT). Wearable Experience for Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT) is a 2.7 million EURO research and innovation project funded by Horizon 2020, to develop and test a novel way of…
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Call for Chapters: Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning
Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning: Current Trends, Research and Practice An edited volume by Ilona Buchem, Ralf Klamma, Fridolin Wild to be published by Springer, New York Springer website: http://www.springer.com Dedicated website: http://ea-tel.eu/special-interest-groups/well EasyChair submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018 Introduction Wearable technologies – such as smart glasses, smart watches, smart objects, or smart…