News
December 30, 2023
"May your troubles be less, and your blessings be more, and nothing but happiness come through your door."
Happy New Year!
December 23, 2023
Have yourself a Merry little Christmas. May this season bring you closer to all those that you treasure in your heart.
December 22, 2023
To finish the semester, researcher Bernardo Marques presented an invited talk to DEGEIT PhD Students, entitled:
"Navigating the PhD: Reflections on my journey"
December 21, 2023
Sérgio Oliveira, a member of VAR Lab was featured in this week's news of the journal of UA.
"Sérgio Oliveira receives honorable mention in the Prize for Social and Human Sciences"
December 12, 2023
Today, we received a visit from Sérgio Eliseu in the Virtual and Augmented Reality course. She talked about her experience working as a Unity freelancer.
Once again, it was very interesting to receive a previous student of ours!
December 7, 2023
Also this week, researcher Bernardo Marques presented the work: "Beyond What is Visible: Enhancing Air Quality Awareness through Immersive Virtual Reality Visualizations" at the International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence, Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, ICAT-EGVE 2023.
December 5, 2023
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!
December 4, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques presented two works at the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, ACM MUM 2023:
"Immerse Yourself in a Fight Against your fears: A Vision for using Virtual Reality Serious Games and Physiology Assessment in Phobia Treatment"
"Enhancing the Education Process of Geosciences through 3D Reconstruction, Virtual Reality and a Large Display"
November 23, 2023
In the scope of Tiago Master dissertation, our team has been collaborating with Bosch Aveiro, creating new Pervasive AR experiences for the shop floor. Promising results are starting to emerge. More details coming soon.
November 17, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques presented an invited talk for the PhD Students on Informatics Engineering, entitled:
"Welcome to the Machine: Industrial Scenarios Redefined with eXtended Reality Technologies".
November 2, 2023
This week, some of the VAR Lab members were present at International Conference on Graphics and Interaction, ICGI 2023, were our team had three papers accepted:
"An elicitation approach for Situated Visualization based on data analysis tasks" - Tiago Araújo
"Creating Augmented Reality Guidins Instructions using 3D Reconstrution and Vistural Reality" - Ivo Félix
"Integration of Augmented Reality in the EduCITY project to create educational games" - Rafael Fernandes
October 25, 2023
Our team is currently preparing some new prototypes for Human-Robot Interaction supported by XR solutions. Stay tunned for more details in the near future.
October 20, 2023
Paulo Dias was an invited speaker on the topic "Augmented Reality in the Industry" at the event "Pioneering the Future of Furniture" at Paços de Arco.
October 20, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques presented the work: "Where do we stand on Ethics, Privacy and Security for Scenarios of Remote Collaboration supported by eXtended Reality" at the IDEATExR - Workshop on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Transparency and Ethics in XR, associates with the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2023.
October 19, 2023
During this week, the VAR Lab team also presented a tutorial at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2023, entitled: "Welcome to the Machine: Industrial Scenarios Redefined with eXtended Reality Technologies".
October 10, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques was present at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2023, where he presented the work: "Evaluating outside the box: lessons learnerd on XR multimodal experiments beyond the laboratory".
October 4, 2023
Today we celebrate IEETA 24th aniversary by participating in the main event dedicated to several years of fantastic research.
October 3, 2023
Today Prof. Paulo Dias presented a talk regarding 3D Reconstruction, as well as Virtual and Augmented Reality to some visiting highschool students.
September 28, 2023
This week, Professor Samuel Silva presented the work: "How to notify team members during asychronous remote collaboration supported by MR? Comparing visual, audio and tactile notifications" at the ACM Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, MobileHCI 2023.
September 26, 2023
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 20, 2023
This week some of our members were present at Bosch Aveiro S.A., for the dinal display of results from the Augmanity Project.
September 12, 2023
During the summer vacations, our laboratory went through some changes..... more are planned and on the way.... stay tuned!
September 4, 2023
"IEETA attracts over 550 visitors since the begining of 2023".
We start the new semester with this great new, a consequence of the effort of various elements of IEETA, including the members of VAR Lab.
https://www.ieeta.pt/index.php/new/ieeta-attracts-over-550-visitors-since-the-beginning-of-2023/
August 1, 2023
Our group will take a summer break to recharge our minds and bodies. We will be back soon with new ideas and projects! See you soon.
July 28, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques participated in the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, where he presented two works:
"Remote Work Is Here to Stay! Reflecting on the Emerging Benefits of Mixed Reality Solutions in Industry";
"Guidelines for Designing Mixed Reality Solutions in Remote Scenarios".
July 25, 2023
Our research on Pervasive Augmented Reality for Industry Scenarios has been featured in this year's research@ua - vol 13. Congratulations to everyone involved.
July 20, 2023
For the second week, our team had the visit of a distinct group of students from all over Portugal in the scope of 'Academia de Verão 2023', in order for them to learn more about the research we conduct at the VAR Lab laboratory.
July 18, 2023
Today, the members of VAR Lab were involved in the International Meeting of the House of Sciences, where they presented how VR/AR could be used for education purposes to a class of almost 30 Teachers.
July 14, 2023
During this week, our team alo had the visit of various students from all over Portugal in the scope of 'Academia de Verão 2023', in order for them to learn more about the research we conduct at the VAR Lab laboratory.
July 13, 2023
During the Research Summit 2023, PhD Students Nuno Martins and Tiago Madeira presented their works to the academic community.
July 12, 2023
Today, during the Research Summit 2023 event, Professor Beatriz Sousa Santos presented a talk entitled: "Inclusive, Innovative and Sustainable Societies - some contributions from Extended Reality".
July 7, 2023
Also during this week, 'Evento Ciencia 2023' took place at our university. Researcher Bernardo was present at the event, where he presented 4 distinct posters illustrating different .areas of application of VAR Lab:
Industry Scenarios;
Physical Rehabilitation;
Phobia Treatment;
Human-Robot Interaction.
July 4, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques presented a talk entitled: "Confront your fears Head-On: Phobia Treatments using Virtual Reality and Physiology Assessment" to various ERASMUS students and teachers visiting our university. In the end, students Diogo and Martim conducted multiple demos based on their MSc Dissertation work.
June 29, 2023
Today, some of our members were present at Bosch Aveiro S.A., for the Evaluation of the Augmanity Project to present the solutions created over the last 3 years.
June 26, 2023
Today, VAR Lab members meet to say farewell to Rafael Maio, who is going to leave us to pursue new challenges. Best of luck to you, you were an amazing piece of our puzzle.
June 14, 2023
This week, our team visited the Rovisco Pais Rehabilitation center in the scope of Sérgio Oliveira MSc Dissertation, with the goal of conducting a user study with stroke survivors and evaluate the use of a VR serious game.
June 14, 2023
Today IEETA received a visited of soldiers from the General Officer Promotion Course. Our team used this visit to present our laboratory and elaborate on our main areas of application.
June 9, 2023
This week Professor Paulo Dias is attending ECSCW 2023, at Trondheim, Norway, where he is presenting the publication: "Insights on the Impact of Gender and Technological Expertise in Augmented Reality Remote Collaboration".
June 7, 2023
Today our students participated in the Students@deti event, where they had the opportunity to demonstrate their works for any person visiting our department.
June 1, 2023
Recently Professor Paulo Dias has been featured in the program UAU - Ciência sem Limites, which can be seen in the following time interval: 10:02 and 13:36.
https://www.rtp.pt/play/p11747/e691641/uau-ciencia-sem-limites
May 29, 2023
VAR Lab previous participation in 'Academia Verão UA' has been featured in this year's call for participants. We are proud of this, and looking forward to receiving this year's students that what to learn more about our research interests.
https://www.ua.pt/pt/academiadeverao
May 23, 2023
During the SAB visit, Scientific Advisory Board of IEETA, we made some demos to the external members, regarding AR and VR projects on going in our lab.
May 19, 2023
Successful user tests with patients from the Centro de Medicina de Reabilitação da Região Centro-Rovisco Pais in the context of Sérgio Oliveira MSc. Thesis.
May 17, 2023
A nice presentation from Tiago Araújo for IEETA researchers: "Unveiling the black box: Explainability on Machine Learning Techniques".
May 17, 2023
The students of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) course have experienced some of the AR/VR Hardware at the lab.
May 13, 2023
Today, Bernardo Marques, researcher at VARLab got married. Best wishes to you and Andreia from VARLab. May you be very happy and publish lots of papers! :-D
May 11, 2023
Today, we give a talk on AR/VR and the work conducted at VARLab to students from Colégio de Gaia who were visiting IEETA.
May 03, 2023
This month started with a presentation by our researcher Bernardo Marques at the Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro with the title: "Another Brick in the Interface: Interaction Design using eXtended Reality".
April 27, 2023
Today, we receive students from all over the country in the scope of the Xperimenta UA 2023 event. We took this opportunity to talk about IEETA, the VAR Lab research interest,s and also the courses available at DETI.
April 24, 2023
Last week we received a visit of some students from ESSUA in our laboratory to find out more about how XR technologies could assist with healthcare use cases.
April 21, 2023
This week, our team visited the Renault CACIA SA factory in Aveiro, were we were confronted with the possibility of a new collaboration for the future. Looking forward to advance in this new endevour!
April 14, 2023
Today, while doing some spring cleaning, we found this little robot, which is now responsible for watering the plants of IEETA! 'Giving old stuff a new purpose' eheh
April 9, 2023
Happy Easter to everyone!
April 3, 2023
Our group had the pleasure of being featured in UA news for the recently best workshop paper award at XRIOS - IEEE VR 2023.
https://www.ua.pt/pt/noticias/16/80456
March 27, 2023
This week, researcher Bernardo Marques participated in the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, IEEE VR 2023, where he presented the work: "Exploring Situated Instructions for MR Remote Collaboration: Comparing Embedded and Non-Embedded Annotations".
March 25, 2023
During XRIOS - IEEE VR 2023, our team was awarded with the workshop short best paper award. Thanks for recognising the quality of our research.
March 25, 2023
This weekend, our team, in collaboration with some international members organized XRIOS - 2nd International Workshop on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports, which happen within the scope of IEEE VR 2023.
March 24, 2023
Today our team visited the Celbi Factory in Figueira da Foz, where we are starting a new collaboration. Thanks for the warm welcome.
March 14, 2023
This week our team has been conducting user studies at Bosch Termotechnology S.A. in Aveiro in the scope of the Augmanity Project.
February 25, 2023
This weekend, we participated in the ENEEB - National Meeting of Biomedical Engineering Students. Bernardo, Diogo, and Martim presented the workshop: "Immerse yourself in a fight against your fears: Using VR and physiology assessment for Phobia Treatment".
February 10, 2023
To finish the week, we receive a visit from 24 students from the ENEF - National Meeting of Physics Students happening at our university, interested in learning more about what we do at VAR Lab.
February 6, 2023
We also start February with a team-building event, joining new faces with some senior collaborators of the VAR Lab.
February 6, 2023
We started this week with a visit to Bosch Ovar with the goal of preparing a future project.
January 20, 2023
Today, Sofia, our first student from the Introduction to Virtual and Augmented Reality Microcredencial presented her work.
Congratulations on the wonderful presentation.
January 11, 2023
This week, Professor Paulo Dias presented VARLab to a group of 35 Erasmus students willing to know the Master in Digital Game Development in the context of the Sociaware project.
January 10, 2023
Today, we welcome back Researcher Tiago Araujo, from Brasil, who will be assisting us with the Augmanity Project moving forward. Great to have you once again on our team.
January 9, 2023
Last week, researcher Bernardo Marques presented a talk for various DEGEIT Ph.D. students from different courses, regarding his experience while doing a Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering.
January 3, 2023
This week, the students from the Virtual and Augmented Reality course presented their practical assignments, taking advantage of the VAR Lab's different sets of equipment.
Congratulations to all the groups for their wonderful demos and presentations.
January 2, 2023
Great opportunity to meet the community (including some well-known Keynote speakers), learn and share your thoughts on eXtended Reality for Industrial and Occupational Supports.
Consider submitting a publication to our workshop in conjunction with IEEE VR 2023.
Deadline - January 24 2023 AoE.
