ISSUE 13 - November 2011

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UPCOMING EVENTS

1. HIGHLIGHT - ArdWorks Show-Room @Lx Factory Open Day

The ArdWorks initiative, which has been in 2011 jointly organized by COPELABS, University Lusófona and COWORK Lisboa, was present in the Lx Factory Open Day on 11.11.2011, with a show-room dedicated to augmented reality low-cost interfacing.

The event was organized by Paulo Mendes, Bruno Batista, Adriano Couto (COPELABS/ULHT) together with Fernando Mendes and Ana Dias (COWORK Lisboa), and counted with the participation of five selected works from different entities in Portugal. COPELABS/University Lusófona presented the Immersive Arduino project. From University Lusófona, Diogo Grilo, Xavier Franganito and José Neves presented the work HighInteraction. From University of Lisboa, LabMag, Carlos Bangueses, Tânia Pinheiro, Beatriz Carmo and Ana Paula Cláudio presented an augmented reality project based on KinectTM interfacing. University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) was represented by Jorge Lima who showed the project OpenSim. Artica, together with Widgilabs, brought "Driving Farrusco". Based on voting from visitors of the show-room, the "best project" award was provided to HighInteraction.

ArdWorks has as main goal to ignite augmented reality development based on low-cost and user-friendly technology. ArdWorks events are targetted to students, geeks, teachers, or simply people with basic programming skills willing to better deal with immersive Technologies.

IN THIS ISSUE

1. HIGHLIGHT - ArdWorks ShowRoom @LX Factory Open Day

2.ULOOP SUCCESSFULLY CLOSES ITS FIRST YEAR

3. ArdWorks goes to Ciência Viva

4. Join the S-BRAIN Meetings

2. ULOOP SUCCESSFULLY CLOSES ITS FIRST YEAR

3. ArdWorks goes to Ciência Viva

The ArdWorks initiative was present in Ciência Viva, Week of Technology, as a joint effort of COPELABS/University Lusófona and of University Lusófona of Porto (ULP). The workshop, which was held on 25.11.2011 afternoon, aimed at providing a hands-on overview concerning augmented reality interfacing based on the development of low-cost Arduino environments. The workshop has been delivered by Bruno Batista and Adriano Couto , researchers at COPELABS/University Lusófona.

4. Join the S-BRAIN Meetings!

In 2011/2012 COPELABS hosts every 15 days, wednesdays, 14h30-16h, its second series of S-BRAIN meetings.

S-BRAIN (COPELABS Brainstorming meetings) are intended to assist in igniting synergies within the context of informatics sciences in University Lusófona and also with peers from both national academia and industry. S-BRAINs have as target audience PhD and MSc students; faculty colleagues; R&D peers. COPELABS invites you to participate by attending or proposing a topic. A full schedule holding speakers and abstracts is available through the S-BRAIN page.