Highlights

• Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (C3DIS) will take place on 5-9 July, 2021, and will be delivered fully online.

• New journal paper is published: G F Clark, J Gacutan, R Lawther, E L Johnston. H Tait, T Bednarz (2021). A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data. Water International. Download DOI.

• Invited to be part of Panel Real-Time @ SIGGRAPH 2021 at very amazing RTC2021 RealTime Conference.

• Our OzCHI’20 paper: Creating 3D worlds through storytelling and narration.

• Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) Visiting Research Fellow in 2021.

• WAITRO People’s Choice Award: Low cost desalination device to supply potable water for remote areas - include Digital Twin. Team: Prof David Waite, Prof John Fletcher, A/Prof Tomasz Bednarz, Dr Yuan Wang, Dr Lloyd Lian.

• KEYNOTE: Responsible Technology through Visual Analytics and Computational Angles, 24th International Conference Information Visualization, 7-11 September 2020, Melbourne AU / Vienna EU.

• Officially passed exam: Unity Certified Associate: Game Developer.

• SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Virtual
  • eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): An introduction to the XAI landscape with practical examples. Course.
  • Digital Twin of the Australian Square Kilometre Array (ASKAP). Poster.
  • SIGGRAPH Asia for Beginners. BoF.
  • Overview of the Siggraph Immersive and Interactive Experiences Committee. BoF.
  • Extended Reality and Education (ED-XR 2020 meeting). BoF.
    
    
• Event 6th Australia-Spain Research Forum BIG DATA SRAP-IEAP
  • Invited talk: Visual Microscope on Big Data - Expanding Perception and Interaction through Visual Analytics Approaches.
    
    
• DARK EDEN 6-8 November 2020
  • Realtime Utopias: Demoscene, creativity driven by limitations.
  • “In that Tyrant’s pow’r”: Artbots and collisions with social crisis.
    
    
• SIGGRAPH 2020, August 2020:
  • Through Digital Innovation Angle in Australasia. BoF.
  • Immersive and Interactive Experiences. BoF.
  • Double Vision: Digital Twin applications within Extended Reality. Appy Hour.
    
    

• ARC Linkage project with Opera Australia on the topic Transforming rehearsal design using an interactive spatial aesthetic. Total funding $562k.

• Our EPICentre’s Multi-Modal High-End Visualisation System (HEVS) is officially released !!!

• Invited Talk: Expanded Perception and Interaction for Measurement Science. APMP 2019 Symposium at the 35th Asia Pacific Metrology Programme General Assembly and Related Meetings. 4 December 2019, Sydney Australia.

• Article From the “Dream Zone”, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 inspires great discourse about building humanity into computer graphics.

• SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, 17-20 November 2019, Brisbane, Australia
  • SoS. Art Gallery.
  • Non-Euclidean Embeddings for Graph Analytics and Visualisation. Poster.
  • SIGGRAPH Asia for Beginners. IRC Panel.
    
    

• EPICentre’s Multi-Modal High-End Visualization System wins BEST DEMO Award at the ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2019, 14-16 November 2019, Brisbane, Australia.

• ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2019, 14-16 November 2019, Brisbane, Australia.
  • ED-XR 2019 Workshop: Hand-on Introduction to VR.
  • Immersive Analytics using Augmented Reality for Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations.
  • A Data-Driven Optimisation Approach to Urban Multi-Site Selection for Public Services and Retails.
  • Integrating Mixed Reality and Internet of Things as an Assistive Technology for Elderly People Living in a Smart Home.
  • HoloCity - Exploring the use of augmented reality cityscapes for collaborative understanding of high-volume urban sensor data.
  • Containerisation as a method for supporting multiple VR visualisation platforms from a single data source.
  • Multi-Modal High-End Visualization System.
    
    

• KEYNOTE: 25th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Technology (VRST) 2019, 12-15 November 2019, Sydney, Australia.

• KEYNOTE: The 16th International Conference on Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (CGiV 2019), 16-19 July 2019, Adelaide.