LevPet: A Magnetic Levitating Pet

LevPet: A Magnetic Levitating Pet

LevPet combines affective computing and magnetic levitation to create an artificial levitating pet with affective responses and novel ways of moving to express emotions. Our interactive pet can recognise the user’s emotional status using computer vision, and respond...
Drawing with a tablet and vr

Drawing with a tablet and vr

This demo show how to make use of a pen graphic tablet to facilitate drawing in virtual reality. We replicated the graphic tablet in VR so that pen strokes are precisely painted in a plane, another 3+3 DOF controller is used to move the virtual plane around virtual...
CollARt: 3D collages mobile augmented reality

CollARt: 3D collages mobile augmented reality

A collage is an artistic composition made by assembling different parts to create a new whole. This procedure can be applied for assembling tridimensional objects. In this paper we present CollARt, a Mobile Augmented Reality application which permits to create 3D...
Avatarians: Playing with your Friends’ Data

Avatarians: Playing with your Friends’ Data

This article describes a new game mechanic called Game Entity Social Mapping (GESM) based on using social networking data fetched from a remote site about the player and his contacts to create characters, items or scenarios. A preliminary evaluation consisting of...
PhotoPieces: A Smart Phone Tool to Create Photo Collages

PhotoPieces: A Smart Phone Tool to Create Photo Collages

This paper presents the application PhotoPieces, a software tool which allows people to create photo collages on the fly in a camera-equipped handheld device using predefined or custom templates. Users can also create their own templates on-the- fly taking a photo and...