I'm a research fellow in the Culture Lab within Newcastle University. At present I'm working on the PATINA project, exploring how pervasive technologies can transform the process of research, and the research space. [more]
I'm a research fellow in the Culture Lab within Newcastle University. At present I'm working on the PATINA project, exploring how pervasive technologies can transform the process of research, and the research space. [more]
A wearable technology developed by myself and Eric Harris to support some work on the Supporting Shy Users in Pervasive Computing project. The idea is that the wearable will monitor hand movements, and detect instances of mirroring behaviours, and synchronous movement. The visualisation subtly reacts to these behaviours.
This is the visualisation that we developed using Processing, and Arduino. When passive it looks a lot like a wavy dark blue surface - if you mirror your interactional partner ripples appear on the surface gently animating the display.
Here's me wearing the cuff - what a good fit!
The electronics exposed! We used the Lilypad Arduino toolset, and an XBee for wireless communication. We ended up using very thin wire for sewing the connections rather than the conductive thread. We just couldn't get reliable enough connections with the conductive thread that we had available.
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