BinCam

BinCam is a two-part personal informatics system designed to increase individuals’ awareness of their food waste and recycling behaviour. It uses a standard kitchen bin augmented with a mobile phone to automatically capture and log an individual’s ...

Ferrogmatic Input Devices

Within this project we are investigating the use of ferromagnetic sensor arrays to create novel user interface systems. We have developed a number of prototype systems and created a range of applications for use with the sensor array. We are currently ...

eScience on the Surface

Often large amounts of computing power and storage resources are needed to facilitate e-science experiments, and much research has gone into providing software and hardware for these high-end needs. Once data sets are produced by these systems, few too...

Collaborative Reading on Multi-Touch and Multi-user Digital Tabletop Displays

This study reports on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a digital collaborative Strategic reading (DCSR) application with regard to its effectiveness for ESL (English as a Second Language) reading. DCSR applications allow users to read coll...

Journeys

Journeys is a resulting pieces of digital jewellery from the Intergeneration project funded by the University of York. The Intergeneration Project  gave us the opportunity to develop digital jewellery that focused on a particular relationship between...

PATINA: Personal Architectonics of Interfaces to Artefacts

This study aims to understand the nature of physical artefacts. We will specifically look at what motivates people to do family trees. We are also interested in finding out what is unique about doing research, (such as for tracing back ancestry) in pla...

Sociometer

Part of the Life-Long Health and Wellbeing Project The aims of this pilot study are to develop a truly novel, sensitive worn monitoring device that integrates direct measures both physical activity and social interaction, to use these measures to exam...

TouchBridge

The TouchBridge project refers to an active tangible marker system for optical based multi-touch surfaces. Interactive surfaces have proved their utility in a range of applications consequently giving rise to a Tangible User Interface (TUI) that exploi...

Art Therapy

A multi-touch coffee table based on FTIR technology. Software on the table replicates real world properties of finger painting, allowing therapists to set up un-supervised sessions for people with dementia. The coffee table is similar to the Sage proje...

CraftCube

The CraftCube initiative presents new and exciting ways of displaying, interpreting and accessing contemporary craft with a focus on new technology. The aim of the research-based CraftCube series is to champion and expose to a broader audience practice...

FiberBoard

Multi-touch displays based on infrared (IR) light offer many advantages over alternative technologies. Existing devices either use complex custom electronic sensor arrays, or a camera that must be placed relatively distant from the display. FiberBoard ...

Art Therapy Easels

Hand crafted of solid oak and walnut these multi-touch artists easels are fully adjustable and include a high resolution, super sensitive multi-touch screen based on FTIR. Built for various projects involving gaze detection and un-supervised therapy. ...

FlirtBar

Forget speed-dating and the classifieds column – now you can leave it to your beer mat to make that all-important first move. We have come up with a novel way of sparking up conversation across the bar. Dubbed “FlirtBar” the invention uses camera...

Livewell Interactive Installation

As part of the Livewell: Lifestyle Interventions Project  there was a launch event at the Great North Museum in Newcastle upon Tyne in November 2010. The institute wanted a multi user interactive install on one of the stands in the conference hall. Us...

ShoeMote: Shoe-based Monitoring of Gait & Mobility

ShoeMOTE aims to develop  a shoe-based mobility assessment system that incorporates pressure piezoelectric pressure and bend sensors, accelerometers, and zigbee-mediated wireless communication between a mote-based device embedded into the heel of a re...

BBC StoryCrate

Designed in collaboration with BBC R&D, StoryCrate is a revolutionary new production process for tv filming. Consisting of a high resolution tangible display built entirely into a portable flight case, its primary aim is to provide a global status ...

Nightingallery

Nightingallery is an interac­tive musical installation where people can jam with a pair of eerie beau­tiful automata. As people approach Nightingallery, the bejewelled animatronic bird come to life, mimick­ing the sounds of passers by and weaving th...

Landnote

LandNote is the tool which provides interactive online maps for each of the case study areas examined in the Contested Common Land Project; Eskdale (Cumbria), Ingleton (N. Yorks.), Elan and Claerwen Valleys (Powys) and Brancaster and Thornham (Norfolk...

Telematic Dinner Party

A Telematic Dinner Party is a meal where two remote groups are brought together through the internet and video projections to share a meal at a table. For these dinners, each group of guests will be in two separate rooms and integrated on a single tabl...

n-backer

Part of the Veritas Project

SHeL

Part of the AEGIS Project SHel: Safe Home Living, the use and acceptability of remote monitoring systems for older people living alone. Visualisation showing 3 days of activity data collected by the sensors

KITE

Part of the KITE: Keeping in Touch Every Day Project.The study aimed to create acceptable and effective prototype technologies to facilitate independence for people with dementia and to enable 'safe walking' through a user-centered design process invol...

Portion-Size Estimation

Part of the MappMal:Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prevention of Malnutrition Project We have developed an application for computer-assisted visual assessment of the nutritional value of partially consumed meals. When applied to all meals, snacks a...

Camera Control System for Virtual Environments

Part of the IRIS Project. We are working on integrating Interactive Storytelling Technologies with cinematography. We have created a camera control system for virtual environments, such as in CGI films and computer games, which used cinematic conven...

MegaPixel Display

Digital Mysteries (Digital Tabletops and Collaborative Learning)

Digital mysteries, is based on the mysteries paper-based learning technique. The design process, the design choices, and the implementation framework are all grounded in theories of both collaborative interaction and learning. The hypothesis was that, ...

Reminiscence Room

Part of the Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE) project. We worked with an adult mental health and learning disability development unit where many of the patients have chronic dementia. We developed digital artwork that enlivens the ...

Lovers' Box

Part of the Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE) project. The Lovers’ box is a digital artefact designed to engage roman­tically-engaged couples in reflections on their relationship. By adopting perspectives from social psychology ...

Cueing for Swallowing

Part of the Can Cueing Improve Swallowing and Prevent Drooling in Parkinson's Disease? Project. We have developed a cueing device which will vibrate at regular intervals to act as reminder for the wearer to swallow their saliva, in order to behavi...

Biometric Daemon

Sub-project of: New Approaches to Banking for the Older Old The Biometric daemon is a secure but usable identification and authentication device, which makes use of multiple biometric identifiers, based on the concept of the ‘Biometric Daemon’ (...

Digital Cheques

Sub-project of: New Approaches to Banking for the Older Old We are working on developing a personal cheque clearing system by using a number of technologies including digital pen-paper and scanner-shredder devices. Our main objectives are to underta...

FiberBoard

Part of the Balance@Home Project. As a part of tracking user’s food preparation steps within a recipe, the development goal of the fibre chopping board (FCB) is to detect the food ingredient while it is being processed on the FCB. The FCB is compa...

Traq

Traq is an interactive information visualization and analysis tool designed for commercial experts who seek to discover and investigate interesting topics and trends in particular domains (e.g. fair trade, health) of web log (blog) entries.Traq provide...

Family Hedge/Talking Memory Box

The ‘Talking Memory Box’ was developed to allow people to digitally record, store and playback stories. It was designed for families and schools, allowing people to record and share stories and experiences that are associated with both people and an

Viewpoint

Viewpoint is a simple, lightweight voting mechanism de­signed to allow organizations and elected representatives to solicit feedback from a community and provide residents with a ‘voice’ in local matters. Councillors and community groups can post weekly

Soundtrack Controlled Cinematographic Systems - CineJack

CineJack is an audio-visual software package for musicians. While visuals may make up for a lack of performance, the software mains purpose is to allow the musicians to see live visuals that respond directly to their playing and to see how this instruc...

Ambient Kitchen - Lite

AK-Lite (Ambient Kitchen - Lite) is a portable version of  our Ambient Kitchen, intended for real-world deployments of our experiments in pervasive sensing and display for situated cooking support. The original version version was a small worktop (lit...

iLAB: Learn Kitchen

The iLAB: Learn Kitchen adapts the technology of the Ambient Kitchen which is aimed for communication with people with dementia and adapts it to the field of language learning. Sensors are attached to all equipment and ingredients so that each time an ...

ThorDMX: Lighting Control Suite

Re-branded as NUILight (New User Interface Lighting), this integrated DMX control system allows rapid prototyping of new interactions for live production environments. Based on a central server which holds a representation of the venue, many different ...

OpenMovement

  Official OpenMovement site: OpenMovement is a collection of opensource hardware sensors and software tools for research use. The sensors all feature a MEMS triaxial accelerometer as a base sensor but also contain other sensors for context. Openm...

Personhood in Dementia

Part of the Social Inclusion through the Digital Economy (SiDE) project.This body of work focuses on the maintenance of self-identity in dementia.Jewellery has an inherent connection to the body and is valued as a special site for objects and as such a...

Stories Table

An art installation in which pieces of art are tagged with markers, so that when they are placed on various areas of an interactive coffee table, related artwork, poems and audio is displayed around it. Using powered markers, the public can see content...

Fritter

Fritter is a service that allows you to tweet your eating habits, so that you and the rest of the world can view your diet. The mobile application allows you to take a photo of your food and send it directly to your twitter account. It was developed as...

Ambient Kitchen

The Ambient Kitchen is one of Culture Lab's ongoing projects to examine the ways which smart environments can assist older adults or people with cognitive impairments.   The kitchen includes a host of  different sensing technologies which combine th...

humanaquaurium

humanaquarium is a movable performance space designed to explore the ephemeral yet tangible relationship between artist and audience in the performing arts traditions. Two musicians collaborate with participants, sharing the intimacy of co-cre...

SurfaceMouse

Supplementing multi-touch with a virtual mouse.  By placing your hand on the surface on the table in the shape of a mouse, a virtual mouse will appear which follows your hand and provides full button and cursor manipulation. [youtube]QHvF9HB6R7Q[/you...

Lindow Man

Tabletop interaction technology is still in its infancy and the absence of widely accessible multi-touch hardware and software products has meant that the majority of existing systems are at best research prototypes. The goal of the proposed partnership

Media Crate

A multi-media mixing console developed for multi-user interaction in high stress, high noise environments. Based on tangible objects placed on the surface of a portable tabletop unit, it allows users to control video, audio, and networked media to vari...

Waves

Waves is a multi-touch interface for VJing (the live performance of visual media). The system allows performers to interact with a range of visual media by manipulating spline curves on an interactive surface. Interaction is highly visible to the audie...