While I was doing research for my role as graphic designer in the Augmented Reality group, one of the lab’s supervisors suggested the book Graphic Design: The New Basics to me. I looked through the book and found one section that stood out to me, a discussion of balance and...
Past the Littlefield Fountain: Turning Missing Statues Into Teaching Opportunities
Have you ever been planning a lesson, and the resource you're looking for isn't there? Maybe it's a YouTube video you saw that would be perfect, maybe it's just a simple handout. Either way, a missing resource can be extremely frustrating, especially if you didn't have time to check the...
Augmenting Our Realities
Want your students to feel like Iron Man? Okay... our project isn't able to do that (yet), but we're excited to share our progress with you! (more…)
Cool Tools: TimeMapper
TimeMapper is a free and open source tool for building timemaps, visualizations in which every data point is mapped to both its temporal and geographic location. (more…)
Past the Littlefield Fountain: The Educational Value of the UT Confederate Statues
In my previous blog post, I started my exploration into some of the articles about the Confederate statues on the UT South Lawn. Specifically, I looked at “At the University of Texas, Echoes of its Confederate Past Reverberate in the Present" by Travis Knoll, a history PhD student at Duke. Knoll's...
A Novice’s Journey through the Land of Photoshop
Here’s what happens when you use every tool in Photoshop on one image. (more…)
Between This and That Reality
A few weeks ago, my casual walk on campus suddenly turned into a police incident. As my colleague Deb Streusand recently wrote on our blog, we have been playing an augmented reality game called Ingress. It turns the entire world into a battle between two factions trying to conquer and...
Seeing Past the Littlefield Fountain
For my first individual blog post on my research into the six Confederate statues that line UT’s South Mall -- as well as my research on similar projects at the University and how they both relate to current national controversies surrounding what the Confederate flag stands for, as well, more generally,...
How I Became Addicted to My Research
I’m addicted to Augmented Reality. Specifically, my obsession comes in the form of a game called Ingress. Ingress uses the GPS in your phone to locate you in relation to landmarks called portals, which are placed at points of interest all over the world. Your primary goal as you walk...
The World, But Better
The Augmented Reality Research Group is excited to introduce our project for the fall 2015 semester. But first of all, what is augmented reality? Commonly abbreviated AR, it is indeed just what it sounds like: taking the real world around you and enhancing it with the digital world. One of the...