Project News
25 March 2010
Together with our collaborator Yishay Mor, we have designed a new scenario for the tabletop, about graphing and motion. Yishay is now working on the implementation.
22 March 2010
The Reprap printer is functional! Our collaborator Dimitrious Airantzis finalised the construction of the 3D printer and produced the first objects. Visit the PhotoBlog for pictures.
15 March 2010
The augmented object is ready to go! Our collaborator Dimitrious Airantzis finalised the implementation of a prototype to illustrate concepts of motion. Visit the PhotoBlog for pictures.
12 February 2010
Sara and Taciana attend the Children and Interactive Surfaces workshop in Durham, UK.
25 - 27 January 2010
Sara and Taciana attend the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI'10) conference in Cambridge, USA, to present the paper titled "Action and representation in tangible systems: implications for design of learning interactions".
1 December 2009
Taciana attends the STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous Workshop on Tabletops for Education, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germanyhttp://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous, December 1-3, to present the paper "Tangible tabletop design and interaction for science learning" (Price, S.; Roussos, G., Pontual Falcão, T. and Sheridan, J. G.).
16 October 2009
Sara, Jenn and Taciana's paper titled "Action and representation in tangible systems: implications for design of learning interactions" has been accepted to the 4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'10. January 2010, Cambridge, USA.
10 August 2009
Floyd Mueller arrives at the LKL to work with us on an EPSRC-funded UbiComp Grand Challenge Early Career Exchange. Read more about it on our events page.
10 July 2009
Surface Tension PHOTOS and VIDEO now available online. Click the image below see watch the video.
Surface Tension: Interactives and workshops from Dreamtime Film on Vimeo.
23 June 2009
Surface Tension takes place at the Science Museum's Dana Centre with featured performances by Danielle Wilde from Australia and Sergi Jorda of Reactable.com. See PHOTOS of what happened and a VIDEO here.
8 June 2009
Taciana attends CSCL http://www.isls.org/cscl2009/, June 8-13, to present her paper "What have you done! The role of ’interference’ in tangible environments for supporting collaborative learning." (Pontual Falcão, T. and Price, S.)
3 June 2009
Taciana attends the IDC conference http://www.idc09.polimi.it/, from June 3-5, to present her paper "Designing for physical-digital correspondence in tangible learning environments." (Price, S. and Pontual Falcão, T.)
5 May 2009
Jenn, James, Abel & George's paper on a "DIY Design Process for Interactive Surfaces" is accepted to the 23rd Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
4-9 April 2009
Sara, Jenn and Taciana attend CHI 09 in Boston, USA to present two papers.
26-27 March 2009
Sara and Jenn attend the Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation workshop to report on "Using sensory augmentation to investigate the role of action in cognition" at Sussex University.
12 March 2009
Presenting our work thus far at the London Knowledge Lab seminar series from 12:30 - 1:30pm.
27 February 2009
Sara, George, Jenn and Taciana meet with the Science Museum's Dana Centre to plan for the Interactive Surfaces event to be held on June 23rd, 2009. And Sara and Jenn's paper titled "Using sensory augmentation to investigate the role of action in cognition" is accepted to the Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation workshop to be held in March.
16-18 February 2009
Sara presented the paper titled "The effect of representation location on interaction in a tangible learning environment" at the Tangible and Embedded Interaction conference in Cambridge, UK. Sara, Taciana and Jenn showed a video demonstration of the table during the demo session.
13 February 2009
We've received funding from the EPSRC-funded 'UbiComp Grand Challenge' to run an event called "Interactive Surfaces" at the Science Museum's Dana Centre. The event will include interactive demos, informal talks, live performances and a panel of experts. More info soon.
11 February 2009
We attended a workshop at the Open University titled "Supporting Children's Collaboration on Interactive Tabletops" run by Jeff Rick. We talked about the DIY build of our tabletop, the design decisions made and the initial paper prototyping and workshops which helped inform the build.
10 February 2009
Taciana and Sara's paper titled "What have you done! The role of ’interference’ in tangible environments for supporting collaborative learning" has been accepted to the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, CSCL'09. June 2009, Rhodes, Greece.
26 January 2009
We've received a grant from the EPSRC-funded 'UbiComp Grand Challenge' for an Early Career Research Exchange with Floyd Mueller who will visit us from the University of Melbourne Australia.
13 January 2009
Demonstration of our tabletop at the Learning and Technology World Forum, LKL, London.
25 December 2008
Happy holidays! We're back to the grind on 5th of January 2008.
December 2008
Our paper is accepted to TEI 09 in Cambridge, UK!
See our publications page.
28 November 2008
Two workshop papers are accepted to CHI! See our publications page.
16/17 October 2008
Demonstration of the tabletop interface at "FutureScape08: emerging technologies - shaping future learning for the built environment sector" organised by the Architecture Centre Network and CABE.
15/16 September 2008
Taciana presents her poster at HAID in Finland.
11/12 September 2008
Presenting our work at the Shareable Interfaces for Learning workshop (Share-IT) at University of Sussex, Brighton, UK organised by Amanda Harris and Nicola Yuill (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) and Paul Marshall, Eva Hornecker and Yvonne Rogers (Pervasive Interaction lab, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK).
2 September 2008
Our RepRap 3D printer arrives.
1 September 2008
Scenario set 1 is finished - we're making a video to show our progress (available on our Photo blog page).
7 August 2008
Taciana's poster "Exploring Sound to Enhance the Learning of Abstract Science Concepts" is accepted to the HAID Workshop in Finland in September.
4 August 2008
Our interactive table build in nearing completion with the IR completed and the scenarios nearly finished. Testing to begin in September.
26 June 2008
Our paper "Towards a Framework for Investigating Tangible Environments for Learning" is accepted to the International Journal of Arts and Technology (Special Issue on Tangible and Embedded Interaction).
06 June 2008
Our reactable table top interface was on display during the Open Evening 2008 at the London Knowledge Lab which saw the Rt. Hon Charles Clarke MP introducing the festivities. Click here for more info.
06 May 2008
Meeting with the Open University (ShareIT), University of Sussex and the MiGen team at the London Knowledge Lab.
14 April 2008
Prototype 1 (co-located) is built and ready for testing in the lab at the London Knowledge Lab.We are now integrating our first scenario for testing purposes.
11 April 2008
Designing Tangibles for Learning Workshop 2 - a paper prototyping day to refine the design emerging out of Design Workshop 1. In collaboration with Making Things at the London Knowledge Lab.
07 April 2008
Our new projector is working a treat and our IR filters and specialised mini lens has arrived.
03 April 2008
Design Workshop 1 - a paper prototyping day with Taciana and Jenn at the London Knowledge Lab.
12 March 2008
Presentation of the Designing Tangibles for Learning Project, London Knowledge Lab.
7 March 2008
Sara, Taciana and Jenn meet with Steven Chapman, our Physics Advisor on the Tangibles project. Steven is a Lecturer in Physics in the Deptartment of Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics & Science, Institute of Education.
3 March 2008
Alô Taciana! The LKL welcomes Taciana Pontual Falcao to the Tangibles project on the chilliest day in London.
17-20 February 2008
Sara presents her framework at TEI 2008 in Bonn, Germany.
11 February 2008
Sara, George and Jennifer visit the Open University.
13 November 2007
Sara Price is interviewed about her new Designing Tangibles for Learning project, as well as her background and what's coming up. [Read more]
Project Team
Sara Price (PI, IoE), George Roussos (PI, Birkbeck), Jennifer Sheridan (Research Officer, IoE) and Taciana Pontual Falcao (Research Officer, IoE), Steven Chapman (Physics Advisor, IoE).
Project Support
This project is supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) grant number EP/F018436.
Project Progress
Photo Blog
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Conceptual / Empirical work
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