Past Events

September 14th, 2004

'Creative digital interaction' symposium.

September 13th, 15th, 2004

Demo days for designers to try haptic system

September 8th-10th, 2004

Ann Marie Shillito presented a paper at the Challenging Crafts conference in Aberdeen.

July 2004

Idea Storming with members of the design and art community about ways haptics and colocation can aid and benefit computer aided design.

July 2004

The Tacitus project has been awarded funding from Scottish Enterprise's Proof of Concept fund.

June 2004

Mark Wright presented a Tacitus paer '3D Modelling is Not For WIMPs Part II: Stylus/Mouse Clicks' at Eurohaptics 2004.

May 2004

David Gauldie and Ann Marie Shillito gave a demo day to the student of Edinburgh College of Art.

July 2003

The Tacitus Team has entered the Research Councils 2003 Business Plan Competition.

June 2003

Mark Wright presented a Tacitus paper '3D is not for WiIMPS' at the HCI International Conference in Crete.

April 2003

Ann Marie Shillito presented a Tacitus paper 'HAPTICS: FOR A MORE EXPERIENTIAL QUALITY IN A COMPUTER INTERFACE' at the European Academy of Design Conference held in Barcelona.

December 2002

Ann Marie Shillito presented the Tacitus Project at the AHRB/Design Council event "Design research - Design and education working for each other" at The Design Council, London.

November 2002

Ann Marie Shillito presented a Tacitus paper at the Conference "Craft in the twenty-first century", held at the Edinburgh College of Art. An opportunity to try out the haptic system was taken up by conference delegates. Her work was used on the poster and in the website. Conference website. There was also an exhibition of Ann Marie's Fellowship work.

July 2002

Open Lecture by Professor Malcolm McCullough, author of a major influential book, 'Abstracting Craft - the practiced digital hand'. He presented his Eurohaptics International Conference keynote lecture at Edinburgh College of Art.

The Eurohaptics 2002 international conference was been hosted jointly by Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh University on 8th - 10th July 2002.

March 2002

Ann Marie Shillito gave a talk at Pixel Raiders, Victoria & Albert Museum. The Tacitus Project was presented to the Society of Designer Craftsmen.

November 2001

Ann Marie Shillito and Dr Mark Wright presented at 'Capturing the Real World - The Role of 3D Imaging'. Edinburgh College of Art.

July 2001

Ann Marie Shillito, Karin Paynter and Steven Wall presented a poster at the Eurohaptics 2001 conference in Birmingham Steven Wall presented a paper entitled 'Design of a Multiple Contact Point Haptic Interface' at Eurohaptics 2001 and was a member of the conference programme and organising committee.

April 2001

Ann Marie Shillito and Karin Paynter presented the project at the CADE conference and the resulting paper will be published in Digital Creativity Journal in December 2001.

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