Open your mind at the University of Tasmania (UTAS)...
Introducing the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (Australia)
- Imagine a place where real world & virtual worlds combine!
- Innovative, interactive environments for work and play!
- Create your own 3D world in virtual reality and augment the physical environment with virtual objects!
The Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT) Lab AU is unique to Australia and one of only three similar centres in the world. It is a teaching and research centre partnered by the foundation HIT Lab US at the University of Washington in the United States and the HIT Lab NZ at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Cutting-edge technologies enable users to create new virtual sensory experiences providing exciting opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students to undertake creative study units that solve real world problems.
Students will have access to two teaching facilities with cutting-edge technology:
- VisionSpace: a three-screen immersive stereo projection system enabling groups of people to view and interact intuitively with virtual 3D objects
- Access Grid: a high-end, collaborative communication facility that includes a high definition videoconferencing facility
Don't forget, good students get great scholarships at UTAS.
The University of Tasmania has an unlimited amount of partial scholarships for good students, based on previous study, providing a 25% fee reduction for the duration of your course.
Undergraduate and postgraduate study in human interface technology develops skills useful in a diverse range of career pathways, due to many fields and disciplines in which the technology and skills may be applied. The creative arts, architecture and design, communication, media and journalism, education and training, medicine and health, engineering, and many more...
Want to find out more? Contact us at:
your.study@utas.edu.au