Who are we?
University of Malaga
The University of Málaga (UMA) is a public
university established in 1972. With more than 39,000 students and 2,400 lecturers / teachers, the UMA
offers 60 degree courses, over 40 doctoral programmers, more than 50 master’s Degrees, as well as 30
internal degrees and 100 courses throughout the academic year. DIANA is the research group TIC-171 of the
PAIDI (research, development and innovation planning of the Junta the Andalucía). The DIANA research
group has been working for more than 10 years on novel advanced interfaces for applications to the new
information and communication technologies (know about its history). The main research areas of the DIANA
group are Networks and Radio Technology, Human-Machine Interaction and Electronic System
Design.
Diana Research Group
DIANA (Diseño de Interfaces AvaNzAdos) Research Group at University of Malaga is the ICT171 research group of the PAIDI (Plan Andaluz de Investigación Desarrollo e Innovación) of the Junta de Andalucía. DIANA is a multidisciplinary group that has been working since 1999 on the research and development of next-generation interfaces for application to new information and communication technologies. DIANA Research Group activities take place in the VR & HCI laboratory at the Department of Electronic Technology, ETSI Telecomunicacion, at the University of Malaga.
3DI-DIANA Team
The 3DI-DIANA Team is working in 3D interaction and User Experience in Virtual Environments since 2004. They aim at the study and development of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and especially Virtual Reality (VR) interaction techniques. More specific, Research expertise and interest include:
- 3D audio apatialisation
- 3D interaction with restricted DoF
- 3D Interaction in Virtual Environments
- Haptic Interaction
- Natural Walking Navigation
- Presence in VE
Past and present
- INTUITION(www.intuition-eunetwork.org, project which resulted in a network of excellence focused on virtual reality and virtual environments applications).
- ManuVAR( www.manuvar.eu), where we developed a training simulator for motor skills based on haptic virtual reality.
- Use-it-Wisely(www.use-it-wisely.eu), where we developed a web-based 3D visualization tool for complex and hierarchically structured objects, applied for industrial products).
- 3D-Tune-In (3d-tune-in.eu), where a 3D spatialization audio render engine is current being developed.
- Pluggy (www.pluggy-project.eu), where a Social Networking platform for cultural heritage is current being developed.
- SAVLab (https://www.diana.uma.es/?page_id=62), where we are extending the 3D Tune-Intoolkit to build a Spatial Audio Virtual Laboratory
- Sonicom(www.sonicom.eu), that aims to revolutionise the way we interact socially within augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) environments and applications, from online meetings to VR gaming.
