Today, HINTS hosted a visit from school pupils in the Human-Centered Intelligent Realities Laboratory. Teknikveckan (Technology Week) is an event in which Karlskrona Municipality employs 30 holiday working young people from 9th grade and first year of high school who during Technology Week to do one day at five different workplaces in Karlskrona, including one day at BTH. Workshops were carried out in the HINTS Laboratory where the visitors got to try out eye tracking, augmented reality (AR) in digital cultural heritage and virtual reality (VR) demos for healthcare education from our ongoing collaboration in HINTS with our external partner Virotea.

The Dutch ambassador Bengt van Loosdrecht visited Blekinge on May 30 with Region Blekinge as host (Catharina Rosenquist at Business Blekinge). HINTS researchers demonstrated the Human-Centered Intelligent Realities Laboratory. Demos were presented on augmented reality (AR) in digital cultural heritage and virtual reality (VR) demos for healthcare education in an ongoing collaboration in HINTS with our external partner Virotea. The ambassador is interested in research and innovation cooperation between Sweden and the Netherlands. Thanks to Andreas Larsson at BTH for the organisation of the event!