- Bespoke: Increasing Social Inclusion through Community Journalism and Bespoke DesignDigital technologies are often not affordable by the poor or usable by older people and people with disabilities. This can lead to these groups being excluded from the digital and social world, as they cannot benefit from the connections to other people and businesses enabled by technology. The Bespoke project aimed to tackle this problem at ...Personhood in DementiaJewellery is inherently connected to the body: as a symbol of self, as a witness to our experiences, as a conduit to transport us to other times, places and people and because it signifies aspects of identity and inter-personal relationships. The role of the body becomes acute in dementia, being something that can represent identity ...NewsDrop: #newsHack#NewsHack is a BBC Connected Studios hack day where digital tinkerers and open data advocates are invited to create hacks within 24 hours. Culture Lab’s team consisted of Andrew Garbett, Tom Bartindale, Sebastian Mellor, Jan Kučera who hacked away using BBC, TheyWorkForYou, Yahoo! and Twitter API’s to create NewsDrop (hack.sbl.io/) National news coverage of Parliamentary debate is ...SurfaceMouseWhile multi-touch technology would at first appear to dispense with any need for it, a computer mouse has benefits that a touch-screen cannot offer. It allows for functions such as scrolling with less movement of the hands, and enables users to click on targets with a higher degree of accuracy. We therefore developed SurfaceMouse, a ...SALT: Designing Scalable Assistive Technologies and ServicesCurrently, health and social care institutions struggle to meet the demands of the ageing population due to insufficient capacity and resources. The potential of new technology to assist older people and promote independent healthy living is huge. However, it is hindered by issues relating to, for example, cost, lack of technological skills among the older ...Language Learning in the WildForeign languages are generally taught within a classroom setting using textbook exercises. Despite its wide usage, there are a number of problems with this approach. Students are only able to “rehearse” the language, rather than use it practically. The classroom setting also makes it difficult for students to immerse themselves in the foreign culture. Studies ...Cueing Technology for ParkinsonsApproximately 70% of people with Parkinson’s Disease experience problems with swallowing. The resulting build-up of saliva can cause drooling, which is often a source of embarrassment and puts the person at risk of choking or pneumonia if the saliva gets into the lungs. Therefore, it is important that people who suffer from drooling have a ...
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9am - 12amQuestionable ConceptsWe gave postcards to the people involved in the participatory design aspect of “New Approaches to Banking for the Older Old”. These cards posed a question about a specific scenario relating to banking, inspired by some of the points raised during the interview stage. On the other side of the postcard was space to draw a ...ACCEL-O-SURGThe aim of this project was to understand the changes in motor skill that take place during the early phases of learning a new fine motor skill task. For this project specifically, that motor skill was suturing, which we measured by attaching sensors to the surgical suturing instruments that the participants (medical students) used, in ...Collaboration and Social Computing in Emerging Financial ServicesDavid Millen, Claudio Pinhanez, Silvia Bianchi, Joseph Kaye, John VinesNUILightWhen designing the lighting for an event or performance, directors have a vision of what they want the stage to look like, while lighting technicians have the knowledge required to put the director’s ideas into practice. However, it can be difficult for the two groups to communicate their knowledge to each other. NUILight (New User ...Photo-Sharing After a Life DisruptionExperience-centred design has focused on enriching emotional and relational aspects of technology use in people’s everyday lives. However, recent research in designing for sensitive areas of human experience has also focused on technology use in what might be considered difficult emotional life transitions, such as divorce, illness, bereavement and experiences of violence. Research that focuses on ...Touchbugs: Actuated Tangibles on Multi-Touch TablesTouchbugs is an open source hardware and software framework for a novel actuated tangible technology. Touchbugs are small tangibles that use directed bristles and vibration motors for actuation (giving them the ability to move independently). Their infrared LEDs allow multiple Touchbugs to both be spatially tracked (position and orientation) on optical multi-touch tables and to ...- Exploring the design space of digital voting for participationThis PhD project is an experiment into participatory methods in voting systems. Its goal is to explore how electronic voting and electronic democracy applications can support different types of participation (e.g. direct push-button democracy, deliberation etc.). To extract the design requirements of technology for democracy, I develop exploratory prototypes that serve as technology probes to explore ...Soundtrack Controlled Cinematographic SystemsLighting and visuals in the form of projected video can greatly augment live music performances, and are becoming increasingly expected during performances in order to maintain the interest of the audience and to support an act’s identity. While advanced knowledge of programming is no longer required for musicians to be able to produce videos that ...Activity Recognition to Improve Motor Performance in Parkinson’s DiseaseThrough sensors worn on the body or embedded into objects of daily use we can infer the activities performed by a subject. Extracting the characteristics of the data collected by these sensors, i.e. how these activities were performed, would be beneficial to a variety of applications, such as rehabilitation, pain therapy, sports and professional training ...Impact-o-meterRewired State Parliament Hackathon kicked off Parliament week with a two day hack weekend on the 16th and 17th of November Hub Westminster (westminster.impacthub.net/). The weekend attracted some of the best developers and designers from across the UK to build prototype apps using government data sets in an informal and fun hack day setting. A team of PhD ...BinCamBinCam was a personal informatics system intended to raise awareness among young people about what they throw away and how they might decrease the amount of waste they create. A camera phone was attached to the inside of a bin lid and, using the phone’s accelerometer, lid opening and closing events could be detected. Every ...Family Rituals 2.0Family Rituals 2.0 is looking at the evolving nature of family life for people working away from home. How do mobile workers balance their work and life commitments? How does and could technology help and hinder this? This is a collaborative project with the University of the West of England, Bournemouth University and the Royal College ...Automatic Assessment of Problem BehaviourIn certain disabilities, children and young adults can exhibit a range of extreme problem behaviours, including episodes of biting, kicking and self-injurious behaviour which might occur numerous times even in a single day. Existing treatments rely upon a detailed assessment of precisely which behaviour is occurring when, so that the causes of individual patterns of ...<>Try clicking here for more contentTry clicking here for more content
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