The Talking Band’s Marcellus Shale Residency
This three-day residency initiated a long-term research partnership between Human Computer Interaction, digital archives, and community development.
New Town Project
New Town was an African American neighborhood in Blacksburg, Virginia from the late 19th century until the mid- 1960’s. It consisted of Gilbert Street and a small lane that were home to about 20 families.
Matrix Redux
This project builds on the existing Cube infrastructure to provide the interaction framework and the corresponding testbed to support research into human behavior and practices using a mixed-reality environments.
Measuring the Engineers’ Brain
Through the use of cognitive neuroscience methods, theories are being developed for engineering design cognition and ill-structured problem solving.
Connected Vehicle Derby
The project "Connected Vehicle Derby" is a collaboration between ICAT and Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Related to this project is an event being organized on Thursday, May 1st, from 5:30 to 8:30pm in the Cube (Moss Arts Center).
Does America Need More Innovators?
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards.
Researchers develop method to improve 3D-printed prosthetics by integrating electronic sensors
With the growth of 3D printing, it’s entirely possible to 3D print your own prosthetic from models found in open-source databases.
But those models lack personalized electronic user interfaces like those found in costly, state-of-the-art prosthetics.
Now, a Virginia Tech professor and his interdisciplinary team of undergraduate student researchers have made inroads in integrating electronic sensors with personalized 3D-printed prosthetics — a development that could one day lead to more affordable electric-powered prosthetics.
ACCelerate Festival to showcase exploration, innovation across ACC
Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian Institution are leading the second ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival on April 5-7, 2019, at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
The three-day festival is a unique opportunity for schools across the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to convene and celebrate creative exploration and research happening at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design (SEAD).
2019 ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day Proposals
ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day will be held on Monday, May 6, 2018, from 10 AM to 4 PM. This event is a celebration of innovation and process at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design (SEAD). The event features projects funded by ICAT, projects from transdisciplinary courses, projects with ICAT-affiliated faculty, and community projects that work at the nexus of SEAD.
We are a collection of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists coming together in a living laboratory that fosters creativity and promotes critical reflection.
The Cube is highly-adaptable and has been used to create immersive environments, intimate performances, audio and visual installations, research, and experimental investigations of all kinds.
Proposals must be transdisciplinary in nature and explore some aspect of technology and at least two of the following areas represented by the Institute and its studios...
