Monthly archive for October 2014

Human 2.0: Technologies of Enhancement

Human 2.0: Technologies of Enhancement

Together with Nigel Ackland, Andy Miah, Frank Swain & Eva Pascoe, Timothy Jung was asked to talk about our projects at Manchester Science Festival on 29th of October. We had inspiring talks by Nigel about being among the first people ever to be fitted with the world’s most advanced prosthetic hand or Andy, Professor at Salford University, with challenging but interesting theories about human augmentation, the ethics involved and future developments. Interestingly three out of five panelists wore Google Glass; not a typical thing to experience in Manchester. It is definitely interesting to see where the future will go.

Our Paper on AR won Runner-up for Best Research Paper Award

Our Paper on AR won Runner-up for Best Research Paper Award

Our paper titled “Acceptance of GPS-based Augmented Reality Tourism Applications” co-authored by Dr Timothy Jung, Dr. M Claudia Leue from the CARH in the Department of Food and Tourism Management, Hollings Faculty, Manchester Metropolitan University and Prof. Mincheol Kim from Department of Management Information System, Jeju National University, Korea, has been selected as runner-up for the Institute of Hospitality’s “Best Research Paper Award” at the EuroCHRIE Conference, held from 6th to 10th October 2014 in Dubai, UAE.

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