A Summer School on Virtual Prototyping
7 July 2009 - 10 July 2009
Italy
In the framework of the FP6-IST SATIN project, coordinated by PoliMI, and specifically by the KAeMART group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, it has been conceived and developed a multimodal and user-centered system, which allows the evaluation and the modification of styling surfaces in a very natural way.
The SATIN System supports the user-interaction through three means: vision, touch and sound.
The multimodal interaction and the development of virtual prototypes are two of the main topics addressed by the KAeMART research group that aims at pioneering the growing scientific interest on Virtual Reality technologies for supporting product design, simulation, testing and evaluation. Methodologies, tools and enabling technologies are developed, evaluated and applied in various industrial domains, including automotive, aeronautics and industrial design.
Moreover, the group has pioneered the use and development of haptic interfaces and is one of the most active European groups working in this area, applied to the industrial design domain.
Actually, Virtual Reality technologies have become a topic of interest both in the industrial and academic worlds in recent years. The process of product development benefits by using the virtual prototypes. Virtual Prototypes have generated interest because they reduce the time-to-market and are less expensive than the traditional physical prototypes. The entertainment sector has also recently begun to use and develop these technologies to be applied to their applications. This has resulted in the development of a number of highly technological devices, which are distributed at prices lower than the traditional products oriented to the research world. This leads us to imagine that such technologies will also be introduced to the industrial world in the near future.
Having clear in mind this background, the Politecnico di Milano has decided to organize the first Summer School in Italy on Virtual Prototyping. The VP Summer School will take place in Milan, at Politecnico di Milano, from 7 to 10 July 2009.
The aim of this Summer School is to create a contact and discussion point for researchers and Ph.D. students interested in Virtual Reality techniques and technologies and their exploitation for the creation of Virtual Prototypes, largely used in the product development process. The school will host several seminars by Italian and foreign researchers experts in the disciplines of computer vision, virtual and augmented reality technology, cognitive psychology and haptic interaction. In addition, professionals from the world industry will be invited to talk about the use of these technologies in their areas.
The school will address some issues concerning the use of virtual prototypes from both the theoretical and practical point of view: theoretical aspects of the disciplines will be addressed through presentations made by expert researchers in the field, practical issues will be handled in the laboratory through workshops, with the aim of providing a basic knowledge on tools and technologies for building applications for virtual prototyping. The workshop will further aim at providing a starting point for discussion and informal meeting between experienced researchers and students of the school.
The SATIN System supports the user-interaction through three means: vision, touch and sound.
The multimodal interaction and the development of virtual prototypes are two of the main topics addressed by the KAeMART research group that aims at pioneering the growing scientific interest on Virtual Reality technologies for supporting product design, simulation, testing and evaluation. Methodologies, tools and enabling technologies are developed, evaluated and applied in various industrial domains, including automotive, aeronautics and industrial design.
Moreover, the group has pioneered the use and development of haptic interfaces and is one of the most active European groups working in this area, applied to the industrial design domain.
Actually, Virtual Reality technologies have become a topic of interest both in the industrial and academic worlds in recent years. The process of product development benefits by using the virtual prototypes. Virtual Prototypes have generated interest because they reduce the time-to-market and are less expensive than the traditional physical prototypes. The entertainment sector has also recently begun to use and develop these technologies to be applied to their applications. This has resulted in the development of a number of highly technological devices, which are distributed at prices lower than the traditional products oriented to the research world. This leads us to imagine that such technologies will also be introduced to the industrial world in the near future.
Having clear in mind this background, the Politecnico di Milano has decided to organize the first Summer School in Italy on Virtual Prototyping. The VP Summer School will take place in Milan, at Politecnico di Milano, from 7 to 10 July 2009.
The aim of this Summer School is to create a contact and discussion point for researchers and Ph.D. students interested in Virtual Reality techniques and technologies and their exploitation for the creation of Virtual Prototypes, largely used in the product development process. The school will host several seminars by Italian and foreign researchers experts in the disciplines of computer vision, virtual and augmented reality technology, cognitive psychology and haptic interaction. In addition, professionals from the world industry will be invited to talk about the use of these technologies in their areas.
The school will address some issues concerning the use of virtual prototypes from both the theoretical and practical point of view: theoretical aspects of the disciplines will be addressed through presentations made by expert researchers in the field, practical issues will be handled in the laboratory through workshops, with the aim of providing a basic knowledge on tools and technologies for building applications for virtual prototyping. The workshop will further aim at providing a starting point for discussion and informal meeting between experienced researchers and students of the school.