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Murmuring Yarnscapes builds on Unstable Design Lab's award-winning DIS'20 paper
Unstable Design Lab researchers Jordan Wirfs-Brock, a PhD candidate, and Mikhaila Friske, a PhD student, both in information science, will present their interactive, hands-on, textile-based experience, Murmuring Yarnscapes, in the ATLAS Black Box, beginning Dec. 2. The installation builds on their award-winning paper from DIS'20 and is the culmination of a B2 residency.
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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.
ATLAS students fill in community STEM gaps through new outreach team
Teaching Assistant Professor Shaz Zamore is the faculty director of ATLAS Community Outreach and Resource Network (ACORN), a new outreach group that connects ATLAS research and STEM education to those who can’t easily access it.
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CTD student's capstone project front stage at Fiske Planetarium
CTD senior, E.O. Rafelson fabricated a high-tech kaleidoscope for his capstone project as well as developed a way to project the patterns generated onto a planetarium dome. His project, “Kaleideo,” was presented at Fiske Planetarium on Nov. 9 for two free shows.
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POPO lets novices program from inside their VR surroundings
Julia Uhr, an ATLAS PhD student and researcher in the ACME Lab, has created a fun 3D visual programming language that empowers novice coders to create customized VR environments while inside those environments.
ATLAS community’s work featured in Museum of Boulder exhibit
A group of 14 artists and technologists connected to the ATLAS community contributed to the Museum of Boulder’s newest exhibit, “Convivial Machines,” which opened Oct. 30. It's the first museum installation for Boulder Experiments in Art and Technology (B.E.A.T), founded by Jiffer Harriman (ATLS PhD '16) in 2019.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read More about a project that brings virtual and physical worlds together with swarm robots
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.
