Dive Lab
I’m Co-Head of the Bristol Interaction Group and I lead the Diverse-Ability Interaction Lab (Dive Lab).
In the Dive Lab, we aim to transform conceptions of assistive technology, accessibility and inclusion in human society. We do this by researching how to design, engineer and evaluate multisensory and cross-sensory technologies inclusive of both disabled and non-disabled people across a range of domains and contexts, from education to work and leisure.
Current projects include:
- Inclusive social play technologies for autistic and neurotypical children
- Cross-sensory social play for the early development of blind and sighted pre-schoolers
- Joint attention in blind and visually impaired children
- Hybrid technologies for community space inclusive of people living with dementia
- Olfactory displays in exergames for people with dementia
- Inclusive VR experiences for people living with limb differences
- Synthesis in audio-visual art practice
Postdocs
Dr Hayati Havlucu
Postdoctoral researcher 2022-2024 on Social play technologies for autistic and non-autistic children
PhD students
Elaine Czech
Hybrid technologies for people with and without dementia
Katherine Jones
AI systems and joint attention in blind children
Siyu Zhang
Virtual & Augmented reality and inclusive social interaction for people with limb difference
Brooke Morris
Social Play Technologies for Autistic and Non-autistic Children
Mamoru Watanabe
Synesthesia in audio-visual art practice
Yelu Gu
Olfactory displays in exergames for people with dementia
Visitors & Alumni
Dr Daniel Bennett
Graduate PhD (2022) Quantitative approaches to embodied interaction
Dr Luluah Al-Barrak
Graduate PhD (2022) Nudge technological for social navigation
Dr Feng Feng
Postdoctoral researcher 2020-2021: Shape changing displays and crossmodal interaction
Dr Clare Cullen
Postdoctoral researcher 2017-2020: Inclusive education technologies for blind and visually-impaired children
Dr Helen Deeks
Graduate PhD (2020) Virtual reality environment for interactive biomolecular drug discovery
Dr Sandra Bardot
Research Visitor: Inclusive multisensory games, visiting from the University of Toulouse
Taimur Ahmed
Previous PhD student: Voice interaction for inclusive learning
MSc students
- Linda Lomencikova: Collaborative Writing Accessibility and the Distribution of the Labour of Access in Mixed-ability Teams of Visually Impaired and Sighted Users
- Side Gao: Crossmodal Emotion Tags for Calendar Applications
- (2018)
- Scott Banyard: Therapeutic Virtual Reality and Multisensory Interaction
- (2017)
- Jiayun Wang: Audio-haptic displays of awareness in groupware systems
- Harry Mumford-Turner: Chatbots, crossmodal display and habit formation
- Zhuolin Yang: Crossmodal shape display
- Joe Hutchinson: Overviewing code structure through non-visual displays
- James Emeads: Interactive memory box for people with dementia
Summer Interns
- (2022)
- Yohan Duclos: Web plugin for crossmodal stimuli manipulation
- (2021)
- Grace Stangroome: Multisensory tools for people with dementia
- (2019)
- Dean Ho: Multisensory storytelling tools
- Juan Quintero Ovalle: Multisensory storytelling tools
- Baptiste Robert: accessible multisensory DIY toolkits
- (2018)
- Alex Turner: accessible multisensory DIY toolkits
- Rachel Jeffries-Harris: multisensory memory box