At the University of Iowa, you can see how gravity works by playing in the sand. Undergraduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy designed and built a sandbox where users can mold their own universe with sand and watch how gravity affects an object—a spacecraft or a comet, for example—as it travels through […]
Virtual Vehicle Vibrations
“Sit up straight in your chair!” That command given by countless parents to their children may one day be delivered by vehicle designers to a robot that is actually a computerized model of a long-distance truck driver or other heavy equipment operator, thanks to a University of Iowa research program. That’s because a UI researcher […]