TRACTION at Cornell Tech, New York (Image source: pixabay.com) The XR Access Initiative kicked off in Summer 2019 with the first XR Access Symposium. Over 120 technologists, advocates, researchers, and industry leaders joined us for talks, demos, and working group sessions that generated actionable plans for making XR [...]

NEM SUMMIT 2020 Virtual Conference. 30th June - 2nd July 2020 Dr. Mikel Zorrilla, Director of Digital Media at Vicomtech, has presented his paper “A Novel production Workflow and Toolset for Opera Co-creation Towards Enhanced Societal Inclusion of People” The NEM Summit is an international conference and [...]

IEEE IWCMC Conference (International conference on Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing) Virtual Conference. June 15th-16th, 2020 Anderson Smiscuka of Dublin City University, has presented his paper “Performance Evaluation of a Multi-User Virtual Reality Platform”, at the IEEE IWCMC Conference Online. (Image source ddd.uab.cat) This year marked [...]

Searching for Play-Doh James Bingham, Irish National Opera (Image source: pixabay.com)Back in the 1950s, the future for Kutol Products was looking pretty bleak. Their flagship product of wallpaper cleaner was becoming redundant as the usage of coal in households fell rapidly, thereby removing the issue of soot build-up on walls. [...]

International Conference “From So Far to So Close. Addressing the Refugee Phenomenon: History, Sociology, Technology” TRACTION will be presented by Project Leader Mikel Zorrilla at the international online conference “From So Far to So Close”, addressing the Refugee Phenomenon: History, Sociology, Technology” (SO-CLOSE project logo) The conference [...]

TRACTION quoted as “Born Accessible” in a Policy Paper written for the European Parliament Dr Pilar Orero of UAB has given Traction as an example of ´Born Accessible´ in a policy paper written for the European Parliament which has been endorsed by the European Disability Forum. Doctor [...]