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SFI Centre for Research Training
Centre for Research Training in Digitally Enhanced Reality (d-real.ie)
What is d-real?
Multimodal digital media, across video, text, image, speech and Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) content, are rapidly reshaping our working and living environments. Seamlessly blending digital media and interaction within the physical world offers disruptive potential to enhance our effectiveness, efficiency and quality of engagement in everyday life.
The SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real) is an innovative, industry partnered, research training programme that equips PhD students with deep ICT knowledge and skills across Digital Platform Technology, Content and Media Technology and their application in Industry sectors. d-real postgraduate students will make research breakthroughs in areas such as multimodal interaction, multimodal digital assistants, multilingual speech processing, real-time multilingual translation and interaction, machine intelligence for video analytics and multimodal personalisation and agency.
Here you can find a list of the Ph.D. research at NUIG by d-real.ie students. Ph.D. Projects List (d-real.ie)
2020 Cohort
d-real - Value-led design for personalized enhanced reality applications
Primary Research:
Siobhán Lenihan
Supervisor:
Heike Felzmann
Description:
Value-led design for personalized enhanced reality applications
d-real - A Multi-User VR Recreational Space for People with Dementia
Primary Researcher:
Gearóid Reilly
Supervisor:
Sam Redfern
Description:
A Multi-User VR Recreational Space for People with Dementia
d-real - Using digitally-enhanced reality to reduce obesity-related stigma
Primary Researcher:
Leona Ryan
Supervisor:
Jane Walsh
Description:
Using digitally-enhanced reality to reduce obesity-related stigma
d-real - Multi-Lingual Lip-Synch – Text to Speech & Audio Representation
Primary Researcher:
Dan Bigioi
Supervisor:
Peter Corcoran
Description:
Multi-Lingual Lip-Synch – Text to Speech & Audio Representation
2019 Cohort
d-real - Digitally-enhanced reality (AR/VR) to reduce sedentary behaviour at home in an elderly population
Primary Researcher:
David Healy
Supervisor:
Jane Walsh
Description:
Digitally-enhanced reality (AR/VR) to reduce sedentary behaviour at home in an elderly population
d-real - Privacy and ethical value elicitation in smartphone-based data collection
Primary Research:
Sarah Carter
Supervisor:
Heike Felzmann
Description:
Privacy and ethical value elicitation in smartphone-based data collection
d-real - A VR social connecting space for improved quality of life of persons with dementia
Primary Research:
Aisling Flynn
Supervisor:
Dympna Casey
Description:
A VR social connecting space for improved quality of life of persons with dementia
d-real - Advanced Facial Models for Rendering of Virtual Humans
Primary Research:
Shubhajit Basak
Supervisor:
Michael Schukatt
Description:
Advanced Facial Models for Rendering of Virtual Humans
