As Research Fellow at Cardiff Met, I am part of a team that recently secured Welsh Government SMART Expertise funding to evaluate the health and wellbeing benefits of HUG. This is being done in collaboration with the NHS, ...
The LAUGH (Ludic Artefacts Using Gesture and Haptics) research project has developed a series of innovative playful devices that amuse, distract, comfort engage, bring joy, and promote ‘in the moment’ living for people ...
Often, the approach for memory support systems is to support prescribed explicit, intense and pro active memory recall instalments. Focusing on making people more productive in keeping evidence of memories in pure ...
(PhD research, completed February 2015) Designs for chance memories introduce proposals that promote new thinking around how design might support personal remembering.
People give huge importance to preserving their ...
A series of plinths consider the role of memorabilia in triggering personal memories and how interactions with them might be enhanced to offer new ways of exploring the past. The plinths have different characteristics and ...
Memory China is a teapot that records conversations around the dinner table into its lid, and plays the conversations back into the body of the teapot. Inspiration for this concept comes from the ritual of 'getting out the ...
The Memory Shelf recognises objects through their weight. A platform at one end weighs placed objects and allows people to add audio descriptions through a recording function. When the weight is triggered again in the ...
This exhibition was the result of partnerships between Craftspace Touring, young disabled people and professional designers. Working as one of the designers, I worked with two visually impaired pupils at a Birmingham ...
Designing for access
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