{"id":2959,"date":"2016-03-10T13:29:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/cel\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2016-03-10T13:29:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T13:29:15","slug":"virtual-worlds-drones-and-mars-landing-inted2016-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/03\/10\/virtual-worlds-drones-and-mars-landing-inted2016-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Worlds, Drones and Mars landing &#8211; INTED2016 conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virtual Worlds<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virtual worlds are back! Lots of great projects coming out of SMARTLab in Dublin (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/smartlab\/\">http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/smartlab\/<\/a> ). They have a large budget for doctoral students and post docs, and <strong>nine fully funded<\/strong> places on offer. Interesting work including simulations of living on Mars; some early material used to train up the space station astronauts, a wellbeing space tested on 300 US veterans and having positive early findings on those suffering conditions like PTSD. They are also liaising with industry experts and looking at non-military uses for drones, helping young adults with autism bond as an online team and eventually do some mountaineering together \u2013 one of the funded places is to take this work further. Check out Bos world at Terf (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dicc.com\/\">http:\/\/www.3dicc.com\/<\/a> )<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2960\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2016\/03\/MarsIMG_3339.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2960\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2960\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2960\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2016\/03\/MarsIMG_3339-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual world - space centre astronauts worked here, and prep for mars landing! \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2016\/03\/MarsIMG_3339-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/files\/2016\/03\/MarsIMG_3339.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virtual world &#8211; space centre astronauts worked here, and prep for Mars landing!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Worlds Virtual worlds are back! Lots of great projects coming out of SMARTLab in Dublin (http:\/\/www.ucd.ie\/smartlab\/ ). They have a large budget for doctoral students and post docs, and nine fully funded places on offer. Interesting work including simulations of living on Mars; some early material used to train up the space station astronauts,&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/2016\/03\/10\/virtual-worlds-drones-and-mars-landing-inted2016-conference\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Virtual Worlds, Drones and Mars landing &#8211; INTED2016 conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,197,5,34],"tags":[198,200,199],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cel-staff","category-conference-report","category-news","category-resource","tag-insted2016","tag-drones","tag-virtual-worlds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/flie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}