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Child-initiated, adult-supported forms of participation are generally regarded as an authentic form of child participation. Within PD however, this type of participation is rarely supported; children are generally invited into a PD process after research ...

People with a fear of being in water rarely engage in water activities and hence miss out on the associated health benefits. Prior research suggested virtual exposure to treat fears. However, when it comes to a fear of being in water, virtual water ...

The classic pump scheduling or optimal water flow (OWF) problem for water distribution networks (WDNs) minimizes the cost of power consumption for a given WDN over a fixed time horizon. In its exact form, the OWF is a computationally challenging mixed-...

Water's pleasant nature and associated health benefits have captivated the interest of HCI researchers. Prior WaterHCI work mainly focused on advancing instrumental applications, such as improving swimming performance, and less on designing systems that ...

We present Pahi, a unified water pipeline and toolset for visual effects production. It covers procedural blocking visualization for preproduction, simulation of various water phenomena from large-scale splashes with airborne spray and mist, underwater ...

In Eternals third act we were faced with the challenge of creating extremely large water whirlpools that would spread for kilometres wide and deep. It was imperative that we approached this in an optimal way that would allow artistic control, ...

We present a method for enhancing fluid simulations with realistic bubble and foam detail. We treat bubbles as discrete air particles, two-way coupled with a sparse volumetric Euler flow, as first suggested in [Stomakhin et al. 2020]. We elaborate ...

Water Mirror is an aesthetic experiment in perception and interactive art. It is a new development from a series of prior works concerned with light, wind data and place. Comprising synthetic and video imagery viewed through two-way mirrored glass, ...

Bodies of water can be a hostile environment for both humans and technology, yet they are increasingly becoming sources, sites and media of interaction across a range of academic and practical disciplines. Despite the increasing number of interactive ...

The convergence of networked digital infrastructures and built environments have given rise to the "urban user", a conflation of "the user" and "the resident" or "the citizen". The urban user and the city infrastructures are mutually constituted ...

The monitoring of migratory fish is essential to evaluate the state of the fish population in freshwater and follow its evolution. During spawning in rivers, some species of alosa produce a characteristic splash sound, called “bull”, that enables to ...

The material point method (MPM) recently demonstrated its efficacy at simulating many materials and the coupling between them on a massive scale. However, in scenarios containing debris, MPM manifests more dissipation and numerical viscosity than ...

In Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Frozen 2”, the Nokk appears as a horse made of water. Throughout the film, he assumes different forms: at times wild, and others calm; above and below the waterline; frozen and transitioning between states. This talk ...

We propose UTAKATA, an ephemeral display device that presents information by using floating clusters of bubbles. In our previous study, we implemented an electrolysis bubble display using drinkable beverages. Although clear clusters of bubbles could be ...

The Integrated Water Resources Management concerns the management of water in all-natural water reservoirs in an integrated manner, that is to say, taking into account the impacts of water use on human activities and vice versa. In the city of Meknes, ...

We investigate an unconventional user interface (UI) material, water, and how applying it to a finger-touch based input affects the user experience (UX). We compare the use of touchscreen, mechanical and liquid covered sliders, and three different ...

Large amounts of electricity, water, and food are used every day in Industrial Kitchens (IK). Still, very little attention has been devoted by the research community to this potential source of resource over-consumption. This abstract paper builds on ...

Over the span of more than twenty years, Weta Digital has brought numerous memorable digital characters to the screen. For the feature film Rampage, we leveraged those two decades of experience and improved upon existing internal methods to bring to ...

Sea of Thieves posed a unique challenge - developing a stylised, open world game in Unreal Engine 4, a demanding and contemporary game engine focused on photo-realistic rendering. Our game contains a large number of dynamic elements and is designed to ...