The SFB-TRR 161 at the Science Day of the University of Stuttgart

May 15, 2023; Christina Warren

In 2023, the annual Science Day of the University of Stuttgart took place on May 13. Together with colleagues from the Visualization Research Center and the SFB 1313 "Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media – Flow, Transport and Deformation", the SFB-TRR 161 welcomed more than 300 visitors who wanted to discover more about visual computing research.

At the booth from members of project A07 (Visual Attention Modeling for Optimization of Information Visualizations), visitors were invited to challenge their memory with information visualizations. After looking at charts, graphs, diagrams or other types of scientific visualizations for a few seconds, they were asked to recall specific details about the visualizations they had just obseved. The exhibit was based on a crowdsourced study about visualization recallability.

The SFB-TRR 161 also contributed two exhibits that had formerly been part of exhibitions aboard the MS Wissenschaft. At an interactive touch table, visitors discovered how virtual and mixed reality applications could be used in working environments of the future. The exhibit "Collaboration in Augmented Reality" tasked visitors with collaboratively building a wind turbine in augmented reality.

For children from the age of six, the SFB-TRR 161 had set up a Junior Coding Lab. With two LEGO robots and a block-based coding environment, creative minds were able to draw colorful pictures. At our Calliope Mini station, young programmers could put their coding skills to the test by programming their own dice for a board game.

Thank you to all those who helped make this day such a successfull event with their commitment!

For more impressions from the Science Day, visit the offical webpage of the University of Stuttgart.