live:lab
is an informal collaborative research and
teaching space at Huddersfield University coordinated by John Bonner to
provide an open environment to:
- carry out user experience, service design and usability evaluation and design studies
- provide a focal point for interaction design teaching for some of our undergraduate students
- create a research environment to explore how digital technology is increasingly impacting upon our lives
Our expertise centres around interaction design - which Terry Winograd
has defined as 'the design of spaces for human communication and interaction'
Partnerships
We are keen to grow and develop partnerships with organsiations in the digitial domain where we can introduce talented students to speculative and challenging commercially focussed projects.
We have a number of collaborative projects running at the moment ranging from promotional animations, social gaming with mobile phones to the exploration of display technologies to reduce crime.
Teaching
We have a range of prototyping equipment for students to use as a way of developing novel interaction technologies and games. Students use this equipment for final year projects and also for a second year games design module
Research
live:lab is also a networking environment between academics within Huddersfield University and other universities
Approach
The intention of live:lab is to provide innovation support in managing, designing and evaluating digital products and services through student and funded projects. Through West Yorkshire Knowledge Exchange funding, we have built a living and office space in which emerging interactive digital technologies can be developed at low cost. We are seeking collaboration and involvement from organisations wishing to develop and innovate with new digital interactive technologies and want an academic input to push beyond conventional boundaries.
Job opportunities
We are always looking for keen and talented research
students and post-doctoral staff.
Would you like to do a Master's degree by research?
A Master's by Research (either MSc or MA depending on your subject area)
allows you to undertake a one year (full time) research degree. It contains
little or no formal taught component. Such progammes are attractive to those
wanting to improve their career prospects within the digital media industries.
Research Master's degrees are also ideal for people who are in industrial
or commercial employment and who wish to undertake R&D on a part-time
basis to solve problems or develop enhancements for their work purposes.
In such cases it is generally possible to construct a Master's by Research
project whereby the candidate works closely with staff who provide the specialist
knowledge and supervisory input.
Want to be a member of our user panel?
We need families, people who love gadgets and more importantly those that hate them to get involved to help design future products and services
Contacting us
Dr John V H Bonner
CW3/18
Canalside West
Department of Informatics
School of Computing and Engineering
Huddersfield University
HD1 3DH
01484 472913
j.v.bonner@hud.ac.uk
