Category: Research Blog

February 1, 2018

[NEW GRANT] Bots and Tangibles: Modern Inclusive Classrooms of Tomorrow

Exciting new collaboration between the CRITICAL project teams and researchers from the School of Education at the University of Bristol, thanks to seed corn funding from the Brigstow Institute.

February 23, 2017

HaptiSonic Artefacts: short paper accepted at CHI’2017 workshop

I will be at CHI’2017 conference, presenting a paper on HaptiSonic artefacts as part of the Things of Design workshop. The workshop explores design research, as a growing mode of research within the HCI community, and the role of the artifact in generating knowledge outcomes from research through design (RtD).

February 23, 2017

Postdoctoral position available in multisensory interaction and education

Applications are invited for a Research Associate/Senior Research Associate position in the Bristol Interaction Group (BIG Lab) within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. The role is part of the EPSRC project “Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning”, which aims at investigating novel multisensory learning and teaching...

January 30, 2017

Welcome to New PhD Student Mohammed Alshahrani

Welcome to Mohammed Alshahrani who joins us to start his PhD on examining multimodal and crossmodal interaction to improve the accessibility and usability of mobile technology for the elderly population.

February 13, 2016

Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning (CRITICAL) (2016/2021)

Sponsored by EPSRC Early Career Fellowship Role: Principal Investigator I have been awarded a 5-years Early Career fellowship to research and develop interactive learning tools to make mixed classrooms more inclusive of visually impaired students. I will be exploring answers to questions such as: how do people learn together when they...

July 31, 2015

Double awards for our DePIC research into developing technology for blind users

Our DePIC team has won the Award for Best Solution by a Large Organisation at the Connect Ability Challenge event, a software development competition focusing on developing technology that can help improve the lives of people living with physical, social, emotional and cognitive disabilities. The event was organised by AT&T...

July 14, 2015

CCmI editor hack wins NIME 2014 hackathon accessibility challenge

This years’ NIME conference, which took place at Goldsmiths University of London, featured a one day hackathon centered around assistive interfaces narrowing down disabling barriers to musical and creative expression. The challenge was the following: “Design a musical device that can be easily configured/modified to make music making accessible to...

July 14, 2015

(Audio) Radio interview by Accessible Media Inc.

I have been interviewed together with my colleague Fiore Martin by the Canadian radio station AMI (Accessible Media Inc.) on our work developing accessible multi sensory technology to support visually-impaired audio production specialists. Listen to the interview here: Or from this online podcast, we are on minute 13 of the Episode 76...

July 2, 2015

(Article) Peak levels: Anyone can get the sound right

The ‘Peak level meter’ is an essential tool of an audio engineer. It’s used to adjust volume levels. For example, there may be odd moments when a recording is far, far louder than the rest of the track. So loud that the sound will distort when played. The engineer therefore...

June 24, 2015

(Video) Accessible Peak Level Meter VST Plugin

This video is about a VST Plug designed to provide non-visual access to peak level meters. It uses non-speech sounds in the form of sonification to convey peak level information and the overall signal levels in an audio track. The aim is to help blind and visually impaired musicians and...