A new virtual reality (VR) training lab at the University of Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science, will help Canada’s next generation of optometrists learn how to diagnose vision problems and eye diseases more quickly and accurately.
The University of Waterloo launched its Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute today.
The interdisciplinary Institute has the mandate to uncover new approaches to security and privacy and educating Canada’s future leaders to be able to understand and respond to emerging online threats.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have made progress towards predicting who is likely to feel sick from virtual reality technology.
In a recent study, the researchers found they could predict whether an individual will experience cybersickness (motion sickness caused by virtual reality) by how much they sway in response to a moving visual field. The researchers think that this knowledge will help them to develop counteractions to cybersickness.
A new blockchain tool developed by a researcher at the University of Waterloo and a collaborator at Airbus in Germany could make procurement of goods and services safer and more impartial.
The tool, a blockchain auction protocol that allows for more safe and secure bidding on contracts with companies, so that the online auction is more difficult to hack or manipulate than conventional methods
Researchers at the University of Waterloo and Minnesota are bridging the gap between psychology and gamification that could significantly impact learning efforts in user experience design, healthcare, and government.
Eight research collaborations between the University of Waterloo and institutions around the world will receive funding to collaborate on projects ranging from quantum experiments and gravitational physics to living architecture.
Funded by Waterloo (up to $20,000 per project based on equal cash contributions from partners), the projects will involve more than 75 researchers at Waterloo and colleagues in Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Four University of Waterloo engineering professors are named fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and members of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.
Waterloo’s Feridun Hamdullahpur, Zhou Wang, Carolyn Ren and Alexander Wong are joining this prestigious national organization. The RSC recognizes remarkable contributions in the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well as Canadian public life.
Children with asthma are at increased risk of stigmatization, according to a study at the University of Waterloo.
The study identifies the need for educating coaches when it comes to addressing the inclusion and management of athletes with asthma
New study determines that Canadian Arab youth feel forced to alter their appearance & behavior when travelling across borders.
“We found a very prominent tendency in Canadian Arab youth to dissociate themselves from what makes them distinct as Arabs in order to feel safer and more accepted when they travel,” said Bessma Momani, lead researcher on the study and a professor of political science at Waterloo who specializes in the Middle East.