Microsoft Research Cambridge

Whilst at Microsoft Research Cambridge I worked with the team that develop .NET Gadgeteer, Microsoft's new rapid hardware prototyping platform. Using Gadgeteer, I developed DMX and MIDI production modules, enabling rapid prototyping of performan...

BBC Research & Development

Working with the BBC I produced a tangible interface for Storyboarding on live production shoots. The device acts as a shared data representation for the team, and allows unique features such as: Rush edit creation Easy Meta data creation ...

Jam45 - Interactive Performance Technology

A multi-media performance event in order to showcase some of the more performance based research projects in CultureLab. As event manager and lead tecnician for the event I was responsible for all staging, lighting and audio production. This include...

Surface Lighting

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 represetation of the venue, many diff...

iLab Learn Kitchen

An Ambient Kitchen installation in the new iLab Learn research group in education at Newcastle University.   This fully working kitchen includes RFID, 4 flat screen displays hidden behind the splash guard and full wireless sensor connectiv...

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 ther...

TuneTable

TuneTable is a public interactive designed in conjunction with BBC Research as a way of introducing tangible and collaborative control to the live audio domain. It allows the public to assume the role of a music producer, controlling aspects of each ...

Newcastle Exhibition Support

As part of an on-going relationship with the Great North Museum, I help maintain a network of technical support  personnel. This staff are on call throughout the year to ensure that museum exhibits and installations are performing at their peak all of...

FlirtBar

Press Release from Newcastle University on 2nd December 2010 Forget speed-dating and the classifieds column – now you can leave it to your beer mat to make that all-important first move. A group of computer scientists from Newcastle Uni...

Stacking Markers

We present a method for identifying the order of stacked items on interactive surfaces. This is achieved using conventional, passive fiducial markers, which in addition to reflective regions, also incorporate structured areas of transparency. This ...

Microsoft Research

While working at Microsoft research in Seattle, WA in the External Research department, I developed eSurface. Escience and the collection, computation, analysis and annotation of large data sets is a field that is rapidly becoming a way of scien...

Fritter.me

An Android mobile phone application that allows you to take a photo of your food and send it directly to your twitter account so that you and others can see what you eat. Written for Newcastle University SiDE project.

Fiberboard

Abstract: 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 di...

Lindow Man

Great North Museum exhibit of Lindo Man. This exhibit consists of two 1.5m diameter circular multi-touch surfaces running a WPF powered application that allows visitors of the museum to find out more about the Lindo Man through interaction and quiz...

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 ...

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 pro...

Pen-Based Educational Tool

A multi-pen electronic whiteboard, used as a table provides an interface for school children to solve mysteries. The software allows users to group, annotate and sequence clues to follow their reasoning. This Java application provides feedback to the...

Sage Gateshead Project

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 con...