The Digital Alchemists: UWS CCT's Research
Released every Tuesday morning by the UWS Creative Computing Technologies Research Group at the University of the West of Scotland, this AI generated podcast explores the latest exciting research developed at the UWS CCT Group.
Discover how emerging technologies suc as virtual and augmented reality, generative AI, serious games, gamification, music tech, and 3D modelling and animation are making an impact right now. Through simple, engaging explanations, you'll learn about recent publications and innovations in cultural heritage, accessibility and inclusion, health and wellbeing, and education and professional training.
Episodes
6 episodes
Virtual Observations of Virtual Reality Simulations
In this podcast episode of The Digital Alchemists, we delve into Virtual Observation (VO), a software tool to study user behaviour in Virtual Reality. VO precisely records and reconstructs user positional, rotational, and low-level input data d...
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Episode 6
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15:24
Cutty Sark WebXR Virtual Tour for Cultural Heritage
In this episode we explore the design of a web-based 3D virtual tour system for cultural heritage sites. This podcast episode delves into the paper "A Web-Based Virtual Tours System for Cultural Heritage: The Case Study of the ‘Cutty Sark’", au...
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Episode 5
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18:05
Thermal Haptic Feedback in Virtual Reality
In this episode, we delve into the paper "Thermal Haptic for Virtual Reality: A Review" authored by Wei Ning and Marco Gilardi, published at the IEEE SKIMA conference. The paper explores the field of thermal haptics (TH) and its application in ...
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Episode 4
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15:08
Eye-Controlled Web3D Cultural Heritage Viewer
This podcast explores the paper "Enhancing Web3D Accessibility in Cultural Heritage: An Eye-Controlled 3D Model Viewer" by Julius Bernikas (UWS), Raymond Holder (Smartify Holdings ltd), Thanos Kokkiniotis (Smartify Holdings ltd), and Marco Gila...
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Episode 3
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10:15
Guidelines for Immersive Serious Games Design
Welcome to Episode 2 of the AI generated UWS CCT's Research podcast. This episode highlights "Guidelines for Immersive Serious Games Design" by our PhD student Luke Beveridge. Published at IEEE SKIMA 2025, this paper presents over 100 universal...
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Episode 2
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19:03
VR and Deafness: The Emergence of Virtual Reality Sign Language
Welcome to the first UWS CCT AI podcast from the University of the West of Scotland Creative Computing Technologies Research Group. This first episode examines recent research from our undergraduate student Lara McIntyre's paper "A User Study o...
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Episode 1
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