Car Sharing (2010)
- Institution:
- Horizon Research Institute
The Car Sharing project is an early exploration as part of the Connected Journey Horizon initiative into the use of technology to create a beneficial societal and economic impact. The project addresses a lack of engagement in existing car sharing schemes, investigating software, devices, incentives and business models to try and encourage a greater use [...]
C-Aware (2010-)
- Institution:
- Horizon Research Institute
- Collaborator(s):
- University of Cambridge; China Mobile; University of Exeter
TBC
Infrastructure (2010)
- Institution:
- Horizon Research Institute
From the Horizon web-site:
The infrastructure challenge will establish the future distributed infrastructure – the Contextual Cloud – to underpin our vision of a ubiquitous digital economy. This will be formed from the modelling of users, the environment and the interactions between the two, and implemented using a distributed service infrastructure that connects diverse devices and [...]
Homework (2009-)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Collaborator(s):
- University of Glasgow; Imperial College London; Georgia Institute of Technology; Microsoft Research (Cambridge); BT
The Homework project aims to bring together a range of academic expertise in order to fundamentally reconsider the home network from the perspective of the home user.
Within the Mixed Reality Lab we are investigating a range of different interfaces for controlling and understanding the network. My contribution is a combination of desktop computer and Arduino [...]
Coupling Mobile & Situated Devices (2005-2010)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
My PhD work, funded from 2005-2008 through EPSRC grant, explores the combination or “coupling” of mobile and situated devices, e.g. mobile phones with public digital screens, to determine useful combinations and the issues that arise during the implementation and use of such couples. The following abstract is taken from my thesis, “A Framework to Guide [...]
INSCAPE (2008)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Collaborator(s):
- CS Systèmes d'Information S.A; Immersion; Digital Video S.R.L.; Realviz; Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung; Culture Lab University of Newcastle; Centre for user-oriented IT Design, KTH; Research Unit of Communication and Art, University of Aveiro; German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence; Alterface; Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Constructions Aéronautiques; International Centre for New Media; zVisuel S.A.
Future Garden (2006)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Collaborator(s):
- Willi Dorner Company; University of Nottingham School of the Built Environment
In the first year of my PhD I participated in the deployment and evaluation of the Future Garden project: a collaboration between the MRL, the UoN Architectural History and Theory Group, Dance4, Willi Dorner and others. Future Garden allowed members of the public to explore the hidden past, present and future of Nottingham’s Sneinton Market [...]
Anywhere Somewhere Everywhere (2008)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Collaborator(s):
- Willi Dorner Company; University of Nottingham School of the Built Environment
Through Anywhere Somewhere Everywhere (née Anywhere née Hidden Spaces) we hoped to provide an exploratory experience for individuals of Nottingham city centre. We presented aspects of the city that have become unavailable, or are off the beaten tourist-track, using an approach combining mobile-based video-, photo- and text-trails alongside multimedia content, live performances and physical exploration [...]
VIPR (2009-)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Collaborator(s):
- Theresa Caruana
In 2009 I began collaborating with Theresa Caruana, a Nottingham-based artist specialising in collage, live performance and projection, to extend and combine our current interests (both sharing a desire to enliven space with technology). We refer to our joint reseach into the uses of technology to create immersive environments in public space as VIPR: Virtual [...]
Rivers Baghdad (2009-)
- Institution:
- Mixed Reality Lab
- Collaborator(s):
- Theresa Caruana; Meredith Gunderson; Laura-Mae Brown; Andy Arkell
The Baghdad 2009- installation demonstrates one potential application of the VIPR platform, in this case used for exhibition of artistic and cultural content relating to a particular country and city.
Baghdad 2009- is an interactive installation built upon the VIPR platform that allows the user to navigate a virtual Iraqi landscape to find and view web-content, [...]
