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Job: User Experience designer at University of Trento Italy

User Experience designer

At the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering of the University of Trento Italy, we have an exciting opportunity for a talented Interaction Designer to help shaping and implementing new interaction paradigms for the management of digital content.

Working across multiple products, the successful candidate will be required to conduct a range of qualitative and quantitative User Experience activities spanning the entire UCD process. Some of these include gathering requirements, building and using personas and scenarios, building and testing prototypes, analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, planning and performing usability testing, and conducting user experience benchmarking.… read more. “Job: User Experience designer at University of Trento Italy”

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New mobile phone app ‘Popcode’ adds virtual reality to real world objects

[From PhysOrg, which features a 1:15 minute video (many other videos are available at the popcode web site)]

New mobile phone app ‘Popcode’ adds virtual reality to real world objects (w/ Video)

October 20, 2010

Have you ever struggled to follow a set of assembly instructions for flat-pack furniture? Simon Taylor, a PhD student in Dr Tom Drummond’s group, and Connell Gauld, a graduate of the MEng course in 2010, have been working on a framework for adding virtual content to real world objects. They can bring written instructions to life using a technique called Augmented Reality (AR).

Augmented Reality has been a key research interest in Dr Drummond’s group for over 10 years. Recent advances in the performance of mobile phones along with continued development of computer vision techniques now make it possible for engaging AR content to be delivered straight into the hands of users.… read more. “New mobile phone app ‘Popcode’ adds virtual reality to real world objects”

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