Talks by Ayse Kucukyilmaz and Pat Brundell

Ayse Kucukyilmaz, a new Assistant Professor in the School, and Pat Brundell will give talks this week. This will be a digital-only lab meeting on Microsoft Teams (on the Mixed Reality Lab team). 

Ayse Kucukyilmaz: Haptic Shared Control and Variable Autonomy for Physical Human-Robot Interaction

In this introductory talk, I will present an overview of my research on building semi-autonomous intelligent systems that will function effectively in close interaction with humans. Unfortunately, despite all developments, full autonomy is currently only a myth, and existing interactions within current human-robot systems are still highly constrained. Addressing this shortcoming, I work on applications of haptic shared control and develop adaptable autonomy paradigms for physical human-robot interaction and assistive robotic technologies. In this talk, I will discuss how I enable proactive robot behaviours through different mechanisms such as learning, safeguarding, and guidance. 

Pat Brundell: Virtual Venta - Augmenting Fields

Virtual Venta is a mobile AR app developed by the University of Nottingham (UoN), Jam Creative Studios (Jam), and the Norfolk Archaeological Trust (NAT) as a pilot project for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Next Generation of Immersive Experiences scheme.
The project used data from the University of Nottingham’s archaeology work at Roman Britain’s Venta Icenorum (Norfolk, UK) to create a visitor experience that draws directly on the archaeological evidence for the buildings and people.

Today, the site appears to the casual visitor as open fields in Norfolk. It therefore poses a range of challenges in order to successfully provide a sense of its former glory as a large Romano-British town. Virtual Venta is the 3rd attempt to augment the visitor experience, and this talk will describe some of the technical challenges of delivering an immersive virtual experience via mobile devices and importantly, the audience responses to this approach to presenting the site whether on the historical site, or in other locations. I'll explore possible further ideas for bringing historical sites to life with virtual content.