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Call for Applications: Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund?Deadline: February 11, 2021
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2021/2/6 7:05)
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Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund Scotiabank and Mitacs have partnered to create the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund (SERRF). This $300,000 partnership over three years will support research to advance economic resilience in communities across Canada. The partnership will solicit research applications that support the three key themes: 1) Accelerate newcomer integration, 2) Increase high […]
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Call for Applications: BC Indigenous Student Award?Deadline: April 30, 2021
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2021/2/6 6:55)
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BC Indigenous Student Award The Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society has established an award program for Indigenous students pursuing post-secondary education in BC. They are available to students who identify as Indigenous, defined as First Nations (Status or Non-Status), Métis or Inuit. All are renewable in order to provide sustained funding over multiple […]
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Researchers receive NSERC Alliance grants for sustainable energy collaborations
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2021/2/6 3:49)
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Two faculty members at the Department of Mechanical Engineering have received NSERC Alliance grants to support their collaborations with local sustainable-energy companies. A relatively new initiative, the NSERC Alliance grants began in 2019, and aim to bring together academic and industry expertise, seeking to more quickly translate research results into wider use. Dr. Walter Merida […]
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Media Mention: Dr. Steven Rogak comments on the efficacy of wearing two masks
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2021/2/5 2:56)
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NATIONAL POST: Should we all be wearing two masks? What experts say about the latest COVID-19 debate. Some experts are considering whether people should wear two masks to increase the likelihood of protecting themselves from more transmissible COVID-19 variants. Amid growing concern over vaccine deliveries and new reported cases of contagious COVID-19 variants, health experts […]
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The Role of Ecological Sanitation as a Climate Change Solution?Feb 9, 2020?Dr. Rebecca Ryals
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2021/1/29 6:52)
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Call for Applications: Governor General?s Gold Medal?Deadline: February 16, 2021
from UBC Mechanical Engineering
(2021/1/28 7:47)
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Governor General?s Gold Medal One gold medal is awarded to the student who has achieved the most outstanding academic record as a doctoral student. A second gold medal is awarded to the graduate student who has achieved most outstanding academic record as a Master?s student completing a thesis. Students must have submitted the final copy […]
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CGI 2021
from MIRALab
(2021/1/21 20:04)
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This year again, Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2021 is organized by MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland together with the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and will be held in Geneva, Switzerland in September 6-10, 2021.
More info at http://www.cgs-network.org/cgi21/
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New publications
from MIRALab
(2021/1/21 20:03)
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Social robots and Digital Humans as Job Interviewers: A study of humans? reactions towards a more natural interaction.
Will be published at Human-Computer Interaction International (HCII) 2022.
Nadine Social Robot – EEG Experiment
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New publications
from MIRALab
(2021/1/21 20:03)
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Will soon appear
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PhD defence of Mr Simon Sénécal
from MIRALab
(2021/1/21 19:49)
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Last June 24th, 2020, Mr Simon Sénécal defended brilliantly via Zoom his PhD thesis on “Learning and Understanding Partner Dance through Motion Analysis in Virtual Environmenty”. His thesis was conducted under the direction of Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann .
Jury members:
Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Prof. Jose Rolim
Prof. Bruno Herbelin
Prof. Andreas Aristidou
Summary:
Partner dance is a physical activity that is social and involves two partners dancing to music. Learning such dance is difficult and presents many challenges, such as finding a partner, learning the right skills, etc. Through the motion analysis of couples as entities with regards to tempos, we aim at developing new ways to understand and characterize partner dance. We are proposing a set of features that can extract high-level information from low-level data, usable enough to help design learning systems.
In the first place, we selected three main dance skills considered important for Sa ...
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