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Navigating virtual reality environments typically requires clunky controllers or awkward gestures. Haven’t you ever wished you could interact with digital content using your own hands? Unfortunately, current technology falls short in this regard. While human-computer interaction (HCI) and virtual reality (VR) have made great strides, the ability to naturally manipulate digital objects remains elusive. The European Research Council-funded CLAP project aims to link human hands with digital content, creating a seamless and intuitive user experience. Specifically, it will aid in the creation of a market-ready software solution that can be integrated with third-party application-development environments and hand-tracking hardware solutions. The proposed solution could play a key role in future developments in the HCI/VR industry.

We use touch permanently to explore, manipulate and interact with the world around us, but also to feel and transmit affection. Haptic synthesis, i.e. the ability to design and control what we feel, either on a computer application or with a consumer product, bears an immense scientific, industrial, and social impact. However, touch is still poorly understood and underexploited in today’s digital era. The state of the art in computational haptic synthesis lags well behind the technological and scientific progress in additive manufacturing, computational design for fabrication, virtual reality displays, or cutaneous haptic interfaces.

The overall objective of the project is to develop a tool that would enable the radiation oncologist (RO) to plan intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) by estimating the dose distribution within the volumes they specify. In various projects funded by different institutions (including the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness), GMV and a diverse group of researchers from universities, hospitals, and companies have achieved a significant technological advancement in this area: Radiance.

The Human Brain Project (HBP) is a major European scientific research initiative to improve our understanding of the brain and the role it plays in making us human, and to exploit the opportunities offered by the resulting knowledge.

Clinical experts make design decisions on treatments, interventions, or on devices. ICT empowers them with patient-specific simulation models that enable better-informed design decisions. But patient-specific computational medicine is currently cumbersome, slow, and unintuitive; it relies on complex processing by technical experts, and it is hence far from reaching its full potential on clinical design, and scarcely used.

This project will impact by boosting of the competitiveness, of the European raw materials companies and providing innovative solutions for a more efficient and sustainable exploration. This proposal contributes with innovative advances in a range of technologies with high impact in the value chain, together with developments in technologies and innovative solutions. The main objective of the project is to improve the performance of the existing downhole geophysical logging tools in the identification of specific minerals in the subsurface and mineral deposits evaluation. Innovative borehole logging tools based on recently developed sensors and innovative processing capabilities provide new opportunities for development of efficient downhole exploration tools suitable for detection and quantification of minerals and raw materials in the subsurface. Extensive testing of the tools’ performance first at research facilities and in mines is planned to demonstrate the efficiency of the new geophysical logging tools as high cost-effectiveness raw materials exploration tools and mineral diagnostic performance.