Tara Baoth Mooney to present at UNIDO event, Bangladesh, 22 May 2012

Posted on 18 May 2012 by Martin

Aranya CraftsFurther to Tara Baoth Mooney’s presentation on Sustainability in Fashion on  26 March 2012, Tara, SMARTlab’s SMARTfashion and Sustainable Fashion Manager/Artist in Residence, will be attending an international dissemination event to present the findings and experiences of the DelPHE project on Tuesday, 22 May 2012, at the British Council, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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SMARTlab Manager, Nigel Newbutt, to present findings from his research at the Second Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning (iGBL2012)

Posted on 14 May 2012 by Martin

More about iGBL2012:

This one-day event will be held in Waterford Institute of Technology on Thursday 7 June 2012, and bring together teachers, students and researchers with an interest in the educational potential of games. This conference will be a great opportunity to learn more about the different educational applications of video games, and network with other like-minded researchers and practitioners.
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SMARTlab’s Gayil Nalls’ latest article in Psychology Today

Posted on 14 May 2012 by Martin

flashmob-robinsDr Nalls’ article, Flashmob Robins, formed as a result of a twelve week period of field observations of North American Robins looking at how they signal and communicate with one another to coordinate acts of collective behavior to more safely access their food source and escape predators. She has been looking at similarities between animal behaviour and human behaviour to form theories about what underlies the human collective behaviour of flash mobbing.

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Future Fashion: Future Textiles hosted by SMARTlab @ UCD for Better Fashion Week 2012

Posted on 24 April 2012 by Martin

Friday 27 April 7-9pm | 6 Castle Market, Dublin 2
Tickets €10 | Book now at www.betterfashionweek.com

Download flyer: low res pdf | high res pdf

Four panellists present their work in the area of future fashion, to include technological and sustainable developments in textiles and their impact on the future of fashion and the environment. Continue reading →

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UCD launches a new SMARTlab MA in Education (Creative Technology Innovation)

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Martin

An exciting new Master’s Programme in Education (Creative Technology Innovation) will launch in April 2012, developed and delivered by the SMARTlab team at University College Dublin. Designed to respond to key current and future global issues relating to creativity, technology and innovation (CTI) in education, this insightful course will provide a framework to help understand, contextualise and position students’ existing experience within a twenty-first-century discourse. Continue reading →

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Dr Bruce Damer invited to edit a new book for Springer

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Martin

Dr Bruce Damer is serving as lead editor on an upcoming book for Springer, a major international scientific publisher. He was invited to create the book on computational chemistry in research on the origins of life. This subject is derived directly from his SMARTlab PhD thesis, ‘The Evogrid‘, taking the hypothesis and applying it to a synthesis of computation and chemistry. Chapter contributors will include scientists, technologists and philosophers and his co-editors are Prof. Joseph Seckbach and Prof. Richard Gordon. Continue reading →

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Dr Mick Donegan sets up a gaze-controlled remote control for television viewing at St. Mary’s Hospital

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Martin

In November 2011, Dr Mick Donegan visited Daniel to set up a gaze-controlled remote control for the television in his room at St Mary’s Hospital, Phoenix Park, Dublin. Using a remote is a daily practice that most of us take for granted, but for those with limited physical movement, changing a channel can simply be impossible. This video demonstrates how eye-gaze technology can be applied to everyday functionalities. Continue reading →

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SMARTlab presents at Dublin’s Better Fashion Week

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Martin

SMARTlab has been invited to facilitate a Future Fashion for Better Fashion panel at Dublin’s Better Fashion Week, which runs from 23 to 29 April 2012. The panel will be presented at the Future of Fashion evening on Friday 27 April, 6–8pm. Tara Baoth Mooney, SMARTlab’s SMARTfashion and Sustainable Fashion Manager is pulling together a fantastic line up of international speakers!

Watch this space for future updates on presenters.

Visit: www.betterfashionweek.com for tickets and more information, or contact Tara at smartlab-ie dot com for more information.

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SPIRES Conference: ‘Social Issues in Research Environments’, 26–27 April 2012, Edinburgh

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Martin

The next SPIRES conference, ‘Social Issues in Research Environments’, touches us all. It examines the social aspects of research, and how to work with a supervisor or candidate. There are some great keynotes from the US and Australia!

The first day of the conference is aimed at senior research faculty and the second at supervisors, as well as PhD candidates, so all SMARTlabbers are welcome. Continue reading →

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Invitation to join the SPIRES (Supporting People who Investigate Research Environments and Spaces) network

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Martin

Alison Williams invites the SMARTlab network to become members of SPIRES (Supporting People who Investigate Research Environments and Spaces), a multi-disciplinary community of researchers with expertise in enhancing the physical, technological and social aspects of research environments, working across industry, academia and leisure. Alison is helping to run the network, based in Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Continue reading →

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