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‘It is hijacking my brain’ – a team of experts found ways to help young people addicted to social media to cut the craving

Feb. 15, 2024

Many people have compared the addictive nature of social media to cigarettes. Checking your likes, they say, is the new smoke break. Others say the unease over social media is just the next round of moral panic about new technologies.

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Grace Leslie and Joel Swanson selected as Faculty Fellows

Dec. 20, 2023

The Research & Innovation Office has announced the 2024 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, including assistant professor Grace Leslie and associate professor Joel Swanson along with 14 other faculty members from departments and research institutes across the campus.

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ATLAS PhD Shanel Wu completes Open Hardware Creators fellowship

Oct. 31, 2023

ATLAS PhD Shanel Wu recently concluded their participation in the Open Hardware Creators in Academia Fellowship, an initiative run by the Open Source Hardware Organization (OSHWA).

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ATLAS PhD Students Present at ISMAR 2023

Oct. 25, 2023

ATLAS PhD students Rishi Vanukuru, Torin Hopkins and Suibi Che-Chuan Weng attended ISMAR 2023 in Sydney in October to present research on AR, VR and MR.

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Radically Interdisciplinary Research on Display at ATLAS Open House

Oct. 11, 2023

Some of the most valuable research takes place in the overlaps, intersections and margins. At ATLAS, we aim to find and explore more of these often-overlooked areas to uncover surprising discoveries.

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Unstable Design Lab 2023 Residency in Review

Sept. 28, 2023

The 2023 Experimental Weaving Residency, featuring Elizabeth Meiklejohn, has left us with new understandings about electromagnetics and cloth movement.

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Ellen Yi-Luen Do Presents Keynote on Fun with Creative Technology & Design at TaiCHI 2023

Sept. 13, 2023

ATLAS Professor Ellen Yi-Luen Do presented on Fun with Creative Technology & Design as keynote speaker at TaiCHI 2023.

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3D printing with coffee: Turning used grounds into caffeinated creations

Sept. 8, 2023

Utility Research Lab director Michael Rivera uses surprising materials to fabricate useful objects.

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ATLAS PhD Student Purnendu Presents at World Haptics Conference

Sept. 7, 2023

Purnendu presented research on wearable electrohydraulic fingertip interfaces at the IEEE World Haptics Conference in Delft, Netherlands.

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Sandra Bae, ATLAS PhD Student, Awarded at VIS 2023

Aug. 30, 2023

Sandra Bae, PhD student and member of the Utility Research Lab and ACME Lab at ATLAS, has been honored with a Best Paper Honorable Mention at VIS 2023 for her research on network physicalizations. Billed as “the premier forum for advances in theory, methods and applications of visualization and visual...

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