{"id":14334,"date":"2014-11-27T11:51:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/postgraduate\/?p=690"},"modified":"2014-11-27T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T11:51:34","slug":"bus-national-centre-for-computer-animation-features-in-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/11\/27\/bus-national-centre-for-computer-animation-features-in-the-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"BU\u2019s National Centre for Computer Animation Features in the Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBournemouth University\u2019s <a title=\"NCCA\" href=\"http:\/\/ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Centre for Computer Animation<\/a> has received press recognition helping to design an amazing piece of new technology.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Leigh McLoughlin and Professor Alexander Pasko featured in the Telegraph for helping to bring the SHIVA (Sculpture for Health-care: Interaction and Visual Art in 3D) Project to life.<\/p>\n<p>This new equipment allows disabled students to design complex objects using only their eyes before being printed in 3D.<\/p>\n<p>Eye-tracking hardware allows people to select menu options by focussing their eyes on it, enabling students with disabilities to use the device. Already in use at the Victoria Education Centre in Dorset, the technology was designed by the two BU academics along with the Centre\u2019s Mark Moseley.<\/p>\n<p>BU\u2019s Professor Pasko said that the children \u201chave great imaginations\u201d and that the device helps to \u201cgive children the tools for creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA piece of software which can help someone create something independently, or make them proud of what they have created is going to build self-esteem\u201d, Pasko added.<\/p>\n<p>Around fifteen pupils have used the software to date, with the creators hoping for further funding.<\/p>\n<p>The article is available on the <a title=\"Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/11250881\/Gadget-helps-disabled-children-design-3D-objects-with-their-eyes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegraph\u2019s website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally posted on <a title=\"BU news\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.bournemouth.ac.uk\/news\/2014-11-26\/bu-s-national-centre-computer-animation-features-telegraph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BU News<\/a><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth University\u2019s National Centre for Computer Animation has received press recognition helping to design an amazing piece of new technology. Dr Leigh McLoughlin and Professor Alexander Pasko featured in the Telegraph for helping to bring the SHIVA (Sculpture for Health-care: Interaction and Visual Art in 3D) Project to life. This new equipment allows disabled students&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2014\/11\/27\/bus-national-centre-for-computer-animation-features-in-the-telegraph\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about BU\u2019s National Centre for Computer Animation Features in the Telegraph<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,1663],"tags":[877,130,48,352,531,1818,331,2186,2307],"class_list":["post-14334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-postgraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bu","tag-bu-news","tag-computer-animation","tag-computer-animation-and-visual-effects-msc","tag-ncca","tag-postgraduate-study","tag-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}