Recent years have shown the importance of online connecting with friends, family and colleagues through our devices: computers, smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, etc. Moreover, users expect content to be more and more interactive and TV shows are increasingly open to viewer participation. For this reason, an AdMiRe main objective is to develop an intuitive and accessible web application allowing the user to connect with her favourite shows from any device.
With the support of Brainstorm, UPF is in charge of developing this web application. UPF-GTI specializes in building web-based open source and modular tools such as WebGLStudio, a platform that allows users to create, edit and share 3D scenes visually and directly from within the web-based app. One of its most recent projects is an interactive graph editor applied specifically to volumetric shaders. By manipulating visual nodes, users can create complex shaders and then export the code in order to use it in other projects. The editor is presented along with a view module in order to show dynamically the output of the system. This integration allows a new possibility when seeing volumetric data, that is the visualization of Dicoms, medical datasets acquired through scanners that contain data of the human body.
User friendliness is a priority when developing an application for the general public, so that it is accessible and intuitive for users of all ages and cultures. A well-designed interface will ease and speed up the understanding between the users and the studio set, as well as reduce the problems or difficulties that users may face when using the application.
For this project, UPF-GTI is innovating and experimenting with new technologies such as React, a Javascript framework to create client side rendered user Interfaces. With that, it is intended to ease both the creation and addition of new modular components later on.
The first internal reviews of the app will take place in the following months and appropriate changes to the proposed interfaces will be made using the received feedback.
Victor Ubieto – UPF