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T9Hacks announces new event designed for high school students
T9Hacks has partnered with STEMblazers to host Au{t9}umn Hacks, a hackathon designed to promote interest in creative technologies, coding, design and making in high school students who identify as female, non-binary or from other groups underrepresented at mainstream hackathons.
HapticBots give form to virtual surfaces
In virtual reality, when users reach out to touch a visible surface, it normally isn't there. But a team of researchers in ATLAS Institute's THING Lab have been exploring ways to make the virtual tangible. Building on their past work, PhD graduate Ryo Suzuki and Assistant Professor Daniel Leithinger recently published a paper that was presented for ACM's Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology, introducing an intriguing application of small swarm robots that dynamically move to provide physical touchpoints on demand whenever the user reaches out and touches a virtual point in space.
Graduate thesis project sheds light on Chicano civil rights movement
Andrea Fautheree Márquez's project, "Chicana Light," which explores the Chicano civil rights movement in Boulder and throughout Colorado, is also "a love letter" to her parents, who were deeply involved in the movement. Fautheree Márquez used projection mapping to create the installation of three videos playing on their own loops.
Whaaat!? Festival returns from virtual wilderness
Returning from the virtual wilderness, the ATLAS Institute's Whaaat!? Festival, featuring games and experimental interactions, will be held in person on November 14 in the Roser ATLAS building.
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In the Unstable Design Lab, Sasha de Koninck creates new heirlooms for future use
Sasha de Koninck, a member of ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design Lab, presented her future heirloom project, The Research Lab of Ambiguous Futurology, at the "Making and Doing" exhibition at the 4S hybrid conference, held Oct. 6-9, both in Toronto and virtually.
CU Boulder takes second place at “olympics of hackathons”
A CU Boulder team of three College of Engineering alumni, including two from the ATLAS community, recently took second place at Pinnacle, known as the "olympics of hackathons." Two members of the team graduated from the ATLAS Creative Technology and Design program in spring, 2021.
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Meow Wolf Denver features work by CU Boulder community
The 12 members of the CU Boulder community included in the new $50-million Meow Wolf Denver location are all associated with the ATLAS Institute.
Augmented reality technology to give battery storage facility workers "X-ray" vision
Researchers in ATLAS Institute's ACME Lab are designing and prototyping an augmented reality application that lets first-responders and site-operators see from a distance what is happening inside battery containers at solar energy storage facilities, alerting them as to whether the units are operating normally and safe to open.
9-11 remembrance in blue
Marking the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, the ATLAS tower will shine blue for a week beginning at 12 AM on Saturday, September 11.
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CTD offers company-sponsored capstone option
There’s a new option for ATLAS seniors enrolled in the yearlong capstone course, aimed at giving Creative Technology and Design (CTD) undergraduates practical experience while letting industries benefit from the cutting-edge creativity of ATLAS students.
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RoomShift research: IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine's cover story
The cover story of the July/August IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine features Roomshift, a project led by ATLAS Thing Lab alum Ryo Suzuki involving the creation of a room-scale dynamic haptic environment for virtual reality. When a virtual scene changes or users navigate within it, a swarm of robots dynamically reconfigure the physical space to match the changes in the virtual environment.
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Origami comes to life with new shape-changing materials
Imagine opening up a book of nature photos only to see a kaleidoscope of graceful butterflies flutter out from the page. Such fanciful storybooks might soon be possible thanks to the work of a team of designers and engineers at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute.
Digital wellness program provides resources to combat social media’s negative psychological impacts
ATLAS Instructor Annie Margaret is creating a Digital Wellness Summer Program for middle-school girls that will provide strategies adolescents can use to minimize the negative psychological impacts of social media. Margaret designed and teaches two classes at ATLAS–Neurohacking, and Empathy and Technology.
Dale and Patricia Hatfield endow new ATLAS professorship
Through a generous gift, Dale and Patricia (Pat) Hatfield recently enabled the creation of the first endowed professorship associated with the ATLAS Institute.
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