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ATLAS is an interdisciplinary institute for radical creativity and invention. We transform ingenious ideas into reality through research, experimentation and critical thinking. With labs and academic programs that inspire out-of-the-box ideas and creative exploration, ATLAS is a vibrant and exciting community of technology visionaries who reach beyond convention, take risks and innovate.

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Unstable Design Lab announces open call for third experimental weaving residency

ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design Lab, directed by Laura Devendorf, will host its third experimental weaving residency this spring to develop techniques and open-source resources that support collaboration and innovation across the fiber arts and engineering communities. New this year, the lab will actively work to grow community at the intersection of craft and technology through inviting interested parties to a series of experimental weaving talks. 

Read More article about the Unstable Design Lab's third experimental weaving residency

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How to turn throwaway cardboard into a DIY arcade game

Like many people across Colorado, Peter Gyory spent the height of the COVID-19 pandemic sitting at home with nothing to do. Then the ATLAS-based PhD candidate and game designer looked around his apartment: “I was surrounded by cardboard. I thought: ‘How could I make a game out of that?’”

Read more in CU Boulder Today

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ATLAS research front and center at DIS’22

Researchers from ATLAS Institute's Unstable Design, THING, Living Matter and Superhuman Computing labs presented four papers, including three that received Honorable Mention awards, at the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '22), held virtually, June 13-17.  

Read More article about the ATLAS INstitute presenting four papers at DIS'22, including three honorable mentions

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The challenges of user testing made "easy"

In a paper she will present later this month at the Human Computer Interaction International Conference, recent CTD graduate Elsy Meis proposes Dashboard Zero, an approach to user testing that is both simple and immediate. 

Read More article about CTD undergraduate becoming first author on a paper accepted to the Human Computer Interaction International Conference

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ACME Lab @ACM C&C

Researchers from ATLAS Institute’s ACME Lab will present one pictorial and two Graduate Student Symposium papers at the 14th ACM Creativity & Cognition (C&C), which will take place June 20-23 in Venice, Italy. The theme of this year's conference is "Creativity, Craft and Design." 

Read More article about ACME Lab papers at the 2022 ACM C&C Conference

 

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Ellen Yi-Luen Do and Carson Bruns win graduate school awards for outstanding mentorship

Praised by their graduate students for their scientific competence, work ethic, creativity and compassion, two ATLAS professors received Outstanding Faculty Mentor awards from CU Boulder’s Graduate school on May 3, an honor bestowed this year on only 18 faculty members campus-wide.

Read More article about ATLAS professors receiving Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards

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New summer classes empower performance community to use cutting-edge technologies

After rebounding from a major flood with vibrant new leadership and a new toolbox of performance technologies, the ATLAS Institute’s B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance now offers more varied and interesting opportunities to artists, engineers, creative technologists and performers than ever before. This summer, B2 offers introductory classes on how they work.

Read More about classes that teach performers how to use B2's new state-of-the-art equipment

 

 

 

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ATLAS@CHI2022

ATLAS researchers presented six published works and two workshops at the 2022 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), the world’s preeminent forum for the field of human-computer interaction. Included in the published works, Mirela Alistar’s Living Matter Lab authored two papers, one of which received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. The conference, commonly referred to as “CHI,” was held hybrid-onsite April 30-May 6, 2022 in New Orleans.

Read More about ATLAS researchers presenting six published works and two workshops at the 2022 SIGCHI

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ATLAS PhD candidate Kailey Shara wins top award in NVC 2022

First place winner, Chembotix, came away with $45,000 for its work on speeding up the pace of chemistry research and development. Making molecules in current laboratory settings is typically time-consuming and dangerous; Kailey Shara's automation makes the process faster, safer and ultimately more productive. 

Read More about Chembotix winning first place in NVC 2022

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Fiona Bell: Intimacy between designers and materials leads to sustainability

ATLAS PhD student Fiona Bell is passionate about sustainability; her doctoral dissertation tackles how to reduce waste through encouraging intimate relationships between designers, the materials they use and the artifacts they develop. In recognition of her work, Bell recently received financial support to help complete her thesis through a Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Read More about Fiona Bell's doctoral dissertation which tackles how to reduce waste through encouraging intimate relationships

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Purnendu's research at Meta brings touch to VR/AR environments

Normally virtual surfaces cannot be felt because they aren't there. But at Reality Labs Research at Meta, (previously known as Facebook), ATLAS PhD Student Purnendu is researching soft, wearable devices–such as wristbands, rings or gloves –that could enable tactile sensations in virtual/augmented reality environments.

Read More about ATLAS PhD Student Purnendu, who is researching soft, wearable devices–such as wristbands, rings or gloves –that could enable tactile sensations in virtual/augmented reality environments.

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ACME Lab: Creating technologies to support creativity

ATLAS recently released a new video that celebrates the ACME Lab and its commitment to designing technologies to support creatives. Directed by Professor Ellen Do, the lab researches computational tools for design, creativity, cognition, tangible and embedded interaction, and computing for health and wellness.

Watch Video new video about the ATLAS Institute's ACME Lab

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High-tech tattoos may help prevent skin cancer

Carson Bruns, assistant professor and director of the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, and his research team are collaborating with the CU Anschutz Medical Campus to test a tattoo ink that’s completely invisible—and could lower the risk of skin cancer, much like a “permanent sunscreen.  At the same time, Bruns and doctoral student Jesse Butterfield, a researcher in Bruns' Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials, have launched a company called Chromopraxis that will soon sell the first commercially available, color-changing tattoo inks.

Read More article about the Laboratory for Emergent Nanomaterials working with CU Anschutz Medical Campus to test a tattoo ink that's completely invisible and could lower the risk of skin cancer

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