News
December 29, 2022
"May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door."
Happy New Year!
December 23, 2022
Have yourself a Merry little Christmas. May this season bring you closer to all those that you treasure in your heart.
December 16, 2022
Master Student Andre Santos presented his dissertation: "Augmented Reality for Assisted Production in Industrial environment".
It was a pleasure having you in our team! Good luck at Bosch!
December 7, 2022
Today, Paulo and Bernardo presented the topic "Augmented Reality in Industry" for the event GameLabsNet - Talk5.
December 1, 2022
Also this week, Bernardo Marques and Beatriz Sousa Santos participated in the Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2022):
" Evaluating the Suitability of distinct Handheld Device setups for Augmented Reality Remote Maintenance: A user study"
" Comparing a Large-Scale Display and an Interactive Projector for One-to-Many Mixed Reality (MR) Remote Collaboration"
November 29, 2022
This week, Rafael Maio and Beatriz Sousa Santos participated in the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2022):
" Pervasive Augmented Reality for Assistive Production: Comparing the use of a HMD versus a HHD "
" Which notification is better? Comparing Visual, Audio and Tactile Cues for Asynchronous MR-Remote Collaboration: A User Study "
November 7, 2022
Also during ICGI 2022, our researcher Bernardo Marques presented "A conceptual model and Taxonomy for Collaborative Augmented Reality", which granted hiw the José Luís Encarnação Award 2022 Edition.
November 4, 2022
During ICGI 2022, some of our students presented their respective works with high levels of enthusiasm.
Congratulations to Rafael, Diana and Lucas.
November 2, 2022
This week, our university receives the ICGI 2022 - International Conference on Graphics and Interaction.
The 2022 edition will be held on November 3 and 4, as a joint organization between the University of Aveiro (UA), and the Eurographics Portuguese Chapter (GPCG). IEETA and DigiMedia are the two research units from the University of Aveiro involved in the organization.
October 31, 2022
Our group had the pleasure of being featured in UA news twice in the same month!
October 25, 2022
Recently, our group proposed a microcredential in Introduction to Virtual and Augmented Reality, which has now been accepted. More details in:
https://www.ua.pt/pt/curso/1555
October 21, 2022
These last few days our research group was present at ISMAR 2022. Besides conducting one of the conference tutorials, we also had 1 poster accepted:
"Supporting Multi-User Co-located Training for Industrial Procedures through Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and a Large-scale Display"
October 19, 2022
Our group had the pleasure of being featured in UA news!
October 18, 2022
Today, we received a visit from Inês Cruz in the Virtual and Augmented Reality course. She talked about her experience working as a Unity freelancer.
It was really good receiving a previous student of ours! See you soon.
October 17, 2022
This Tuesday our research group presented a tutorial on 'Remote Collaboration using Augmented Reality: Development and Evaluation' at the ISMAR 2022.
https://ismar2022.org/program-tutorials/#tutorial2
October 12, 2022
This week, our research team participated in the Mixed Reality Contest from the National AgroInnovation Summit 2022. Researcher Bernardo Marques presented a 3 min pitch on: "Using Augmented Reality for facilitating collaboration and repairing ". In the end, our team was selected as one of the finalists of the event!
https://agroinov.rederural.gov.pt/concurso-realidade-mista
September 27, 2022
Today we received the students from the RVA - Virtual and Augmented Reality course in our laboratory to explore our devices! Looking forward to se your prototypes later on!
September 21, 2022
Our group is back at work for a new semester!
July 29, 2022
Our group will take a summer break to recharge our minds and bodies. We will be back soon with new ideas and projects!
July 27, 2022
With the semester coming to an end, the members of our group conducted a team-building event at Bio-Ria, Salreu, and a Pizza dinner to keep old traditions.
July 26, 2022
Today, we conducted our last meeting of the semester in the Rectory building of our university, taking advantage of the large-display monitor we have been using for research purposes.
July 25, 2022
The work being developed under the CVA-UA - Advanced Visualization center - University of Aveiro has been featured in a receent news by EUROCC Portugal
https://eurocc.fccn.pt/os-centros-de-visualizacao-portugueses-que-apoiam-a-computacao-avancada/
July 21, 2022
This week, Bernardo Marques gave a lecture for 12 high school students interested in learning more about: "Virtual and Augmented Reality for Biomedical Engineering", in the scope of Academia Verão - UA.
July 14, 2022
Our research on Collaborative Augmented Reality has been featured in this year's research@ua - vol 12. Congratulations to everyone involved.
July 13, 2022
Today our group participated in Academia Verão - UA. We received 12 high school students interested in learning more about Virtual and Augmented Reality.
July 6, 2022
Today, our member participated in the Augmanity project webinar - Industry meets the future. In particular, Professor Paulo Dias presented the work being developed by our research group in the scope of this project.
July 4, 2022
During the past week, Professor Paulo Dias visited the virtual and augmented reality research group from the Tampere University in Finland.
July 1, 2022
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques participated in the European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2022):
" Do Hand-Held Devices have a future in Augmented Reality real-life remote tasks? Reflections on impact/acceptance versus Head-Mounted Displays"
June 24, 2022
Today, our students participated in the Students@deti event, showcasing their projects.
June 22, 2022
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques participated in the Workshop on Analytics, Learning & Collaboration in eXtended Reality (XR-WALC). ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX 2022) with the work:
" One-to-Many Remote Scenarios: The Next Step in Collaborative Extended Reality (XR) Research"
June 21, 2022
Today, our BSc. students presented their Project in Informatics Engineering, regarding the topic: "Shop Floor Co-located Collaborative Training using Large Displays & Virtual Environments".
It was a pleasure to work with all of you! Amazing results! Hope to see you soon in other courses.
June 10, 2022
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques was in Rome, Italy, presenting two works at International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI 2022:
"Does Size Matter? Exploring how Standard and Large-Scale Displays affect Off-site Experts during AR-Remote Collaboration"
"Exploring an Augmented Reality Serious Game for Motorized Wheelchair Control"
May 18, 2022
Our research group continues to conduct user studies at Bosch Thermotechnology S.A. - Aveiro, under the Augmanity project, aiming to enhance operators' performance on the shoop floor through Augmented Reality.
May 17, 2022
Today we receive a visit from multiple BSc students from DEGEIT - Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering and Tourism. Our Researcher Bernardo Marques showed our laboratory and presented a class on 'Industrial Augmented Reality', based on our conducted by our research group.
May 16, 2022
Bernardo Marques and Tiago Madeira were present at the final Open Campus of the SGH Project to demonstrate BARTT, a platform using Augmented Reality for assisting technicians during maintenance tasks.
May 3, 2022
Today we decided to take a group photo for the VAR Lab events! Looking good?
May 2, 2022
The call for papers for the International Conference on Graphics and Interaction - ICGI 2022 is now available. To check important dates, please visit the conference website: https://gpcg.pt/icgi2022/important-dates/
We hope to see you soon in Aveiro.
April 20, 2022
This week our group visited once again the Bosch factory in Aveiro, where we continue to test our HHD & HMD prototypes, developed, in the scope of the Augmanity project.
April 15, 2022
Have a nice Easter holiday. We will be back really soon.
April 8, 2022
Today, we received a visit from several high school students from Viseu. Our researcher Bernardo explained to them our mission, and goals through several illustrative videos during their visit to IEETA.
April 6, 2022
This week our group visited the Bosch factory in Aveiro, where we tested two prototypes: an HMD and an HHD version to guide human operators during their daily tasks, in the scope of the Augmanity project.
March 29, 2022
Today, we received a visit from our partners at Bosch Aveiro and Bosch Ovar, in the scope of the Augmanity Project.
They were able to experience the demos of André and Rafael, aligned with the use of Pervasive AR for Assistive Production.
March 17, 2022
These last few days our research group was present at the IEEE VR 2022. Besides conducting one of the conference tutorials, we also had 3 posters accepted:
"Does Remote Expert Representation really matters: A comparison of Video and AR-based Guidance"
"Using 3D Reconstruction to create Pervasive Augmented Reality Experiences: A comparison"
"Whac-A-Mole: Exploring Virtual Reality (VR) for Upper-Limb Post-Stroke Physical Rehabilitation based on Participatory Design and Serious Games"
March 11, 2022
This friday our research group presented a tutorial on 'Remote Collaboration using Augmented Reality: Development and Evaluation' at the IEEE Virtual Reality 2022.
https://ieeevr.org/2022/program/tutorials/#RemoteCollaboration
March 10, 2022
Today we remember the 'VR Puzzle box', a work developed during 2020/2021, in the scope of the Virtual and Augmented Reality course by our Master Student André Santos.
How awesome does this look?
March 1, 2022
Also this month, Bernardo Marques starts a new position within our group, as a Researcher at the Advanced Visualization Center - University of Aveiro (CVA-UA). He will be responsible for supervising research, development, and promotional activities.
videowall.web.ua.pt/index.html
March 1, 2022
This month we welcome Rafael Maio to our team, as a Junior Researcher on the Augmanity Project. He will focus on exploring Pervasive AR technologies in the Industry sector.
We look forward to seeing some prototypes from your work!
February 2, 2022
Congratulations to Tiago Araújo, who presented his PhD Thesis:
"A model for Automated Support for Recognition, Extraction, Customization and Reconstruction of Static Charts".
A big hug from this side of the Atlantic!
January 27, 2022
Last year, we decided to give a new life to some of our equipments which are no longer used/supported.
Now, we can display it to the larger audience of our research institute and to incoming visitors during the academic year.
January 25, 2022
This week, the Virtual and Augmetned Reality students presented their pratical assignments, taking advantage of the VAR Lab differnt set of equipments.
Wonderful presentations everyone. It was great to see such interesting demos.
January 13, 2022
Professor Paulo Dias opinon regarding the METAVERSE was featured on the 'Visão' Magazine nº 1506.
January 12, 2022
This week, the Information Visualization students presented their pratical assignments at the rectory building of our university, taking advantage of our newest equipment, the video wall.
Great job everyone.
