Several exciting research projects at the Division of Interaction Design
News: Jan 18, 2012
During the last months of 2011 several exciting new research project were granted the Division of Interaction Design. New research will include the study of how IT can support major events and how to develop methods for efficient visualization of medical data.
By linking technological development projects and major sporting events, the project EVINN, EVent-based INNovation, will attract major events to the region around the Kattegat and Skagerrak. New technology will improve the quality of sporting events for participants, organizers and spectators.
The Division of Interaction Design has, together with universities and organizations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, including Imego AB, Göteborg & Co and two other departments at the University of Gothenburg, received funding from the EU. Contact person at the Division of Interaction Design is Staffan Björk.
Visualization of Medical Data
The Research Council has founded a project entitled "Methods for complex medical volume visualization based on clinical tasks and cognitive processes". The goal of this project is to develop methods for efficient visualization of complex medical data through continuous adaptation to the actual tasks and cognitive processes of the end user.
Recent advances in medical imaging have enabled new possibilities for diagnostic assessments and monitoring of treatments but progress does not automatically lead to improvements in the health care. Today many improvements never even reach clinical use since it is impossible for the individual doctor to explore them and learn to use them. There is a need for mechanisms that can bring existing and future advances all the way to clinical practice.
Industrial partner in the project is SECTRA Medical System in Linköping. One PhD student will be employed. Contact person at the department is Morten Fjeld.
Students point and learn at the visualization table. Photo: Sectra (From Ny Teknik, November 2011).
Vision-based interactive systems
Morten Fjeld has received funding from the Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) and the program Strategic Mobility. SFS aims to encourage mobility between academia and industry. Morten Fjeld will spend his time at Qualisys AB i Göteborg and INSPIRE AG, Switzerland.
- Together with Qualisys AB interactive table for example crisis management will be explored and with INSPIRE AG industrial applications in production and virtual production. The project lasts from March 2012 and one year ahead, says Morten Fjeld.
A group of students in Interaction Design has developed so-called tangible tabletops for their master theses. The table uses Qualisys AB's camera technology. To the left, Anders Rudbäck is demonstrating the work to a group of CEO's from Sony Corporate Research from Tokyo who visited the t2i Lab in May 2011. To the right is Brice Clocher presenting the result of his work at a fair for crisis management in Kista in November 2011.
EU project DIVA
The Division of Interaction Design has also received funding from EU's Seventh Framework Programme and Marie Curie Initial Training Networks for the project DIVA - Data Intensive Visualization and Analysis. The project is collaboration with participants from Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Sweden, France and Hungary and is aiming to establish a leading European-wide doctoral Collegium for research in Data Intensive Visualization and Analysis. The collegium will train the next generation of visualization and analysis experts who will be equipped with the necessary skills to cope with the major challenges for 3D visual presentation and understanding in data intensive application environments.
- Two PhD students will be empluye for the åroject during 2012, says Morten Fjeld who is the contact person for the project at the department.
Two of the projects partners are the Visualization and Multimedia Lab at the university in Zürich and Visual Computing and Computer Graphics at the university in Rostock.
More information on the project is available on: http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/vmml/news/20112015-eu-fp7-itn-grant.html
Holografika Kft. Budapest is one of the project's industrial partners.