Press Releases
Researchers receive over $3.9 million from Ontario Research Fund
Two Queen’s researchers have received over $3.9 million from the Ontario Research Fund - Research Excellence program.
“This provincial funding will facilitate the work of Stephen Scott, who is uncovering the secrets of the brain, and boost Roel Vertegaal’s research on the next generation of computers and the future of human-computer interaction,” said Kerry Rowe, Queen’s Vice-Principal, Research. “The program is a great support to research and innovation at Queen’s.”
Press Release: Queen's Human Media Lab Makes Board Games Graphics Electronic
Revolutionary technology to be presented at MIT conference next week
KINGSTON, ON – A groundbreaking technology developed at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada may make traditional board games a thing of the past.
The technology allows groups of friends or family members to play electronic games like they used to do board games: in a sociable and physical setting, placed together around a table. It also eases game controls by using affordances of regular cardboard pieces.
Press Release: Organic User Interface (OUI) Drives Future Displays of Any Shape or Form
Kingston, Ontario The shape of things to come in the computing world will be anything but flat, predicts Queen’s professor of Human-Computer Interaction Roel Vertegaal. May 31st, 2008.
Not only will our digital devices take on flexible forms we’ve never imagined – like pop cans with browsers displaying RSS feeds and movie trailers – they will respond to our direct touch and even change their own shape to better accommodate data, for example, fold up like a piece of paper to be tucked into our pockets. “Organic User Interface” – the concept behind these next-generation computers – is featured in a special issue of the Association of Computing Machinery’s (ACM) flagship publication, Communications of ACM, to appear today. The issue is co-edited by Dr. Vertegaal and Ivan Poupyrev, a member of the Sony Interaction Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan.
Press Release: Long-range eye tracker enables selling ads “by the eyeball”
Queen’s University spin-off Xuuk unveils technology today at Google May 7, 2007 KINGSTON, Ont. – A Queen’s University Computing professor’s invention – to be unveiled today at Google’s corporate headquarters in California – provides a unique, affordable way for advertisers to track the effectiveness of their messages by measuring how many people are looking at their billboards and screens.
Press release: Witness the Fitness
Media Advisory October 10, 2006 Witness the Fitness at Queen's Haynes Hall Kingston, Ont. – On October 12, at sunset, a virtual fitness school will appear on the walls of Haynes Hall in Kingston, located on the corner of Clarence Street and Brock Street. The exhibit will run from 7 pm to 1 am on Thursday October 12 through Sunday October 15.
Press Release: Attentive Office Cubicles
Read Original Story “Attentive” cubicles help workers focus in busy offices Monday December 20, 2004 (Kingston, ON) – An “attentive” office cubicle that blocks noise and visual distractions when you’re trying to work, and then opens communication channels when you’re ready to socialize, is just one of the innovative new devices developed by Queen’s University’s Human Media Laboratory (HML).
