OurLab - Mixed Reality Lab Designer
This project demonstrates the feasibility of embedding requirements into a mixed reality platform by integrating rule-based constraints, allowing users to design a space and immediately know the impact of changes as they make them.
The platform, OurLab, integrates a range of mixed reality technologies and systems such as hand tracking, fiducial markers, and a tangible user interface. By moving physical, tracked objects around, a designer can explore potential lab configuration solutions that comply to given requirements. The platform analyses the design as it is occuring and reflects requirement compliance in real-time to the user.
This platform is currently being evaluated through user studies, looking at how different fidelities of visualisation immediate feedback can impact a design process, for better or worse.
People
Lee Kent
Research Engineer
Chris Snider
Lecturer
Ben Hicks
Professor, Director
Blog Posts
TURA investigators visit Bristol
From the 21st to the 24th June, I was very glad to host some of the co-investigators (Dr. Aleksandra Kristikj, Dr Giacomo […]
UK-Colombia collaboration and WUN bid submission
I returned to visit la Universidad de Los Andes (Uniandes) in August this year after a pandemic induced hiatus. Prior to 2020, […]
21st Century Prototyping exhibit at ICED 2023
Setting the stage to show the community our technical capabilities and upcoming research, this week the 21CP team exhibited a range of […]
IDEA challenge 2023
The IDEA challenge returned in May 2023 for its third iteration! This time it was hosted by the University of Zagreb and […]
21st Century Prototyping at the ProSquared Network+ Launch
This week Chris and the team joined the launch event for the new ProSquared Network on the Democratisation of Digital Devices. This […]
DMF @ DCC’22
The DMF attended the tenth International Conference on Design Cognition and Computing (DCC’22) in Glasgow and received the best poster prize and runner up in the best paper award!
Technical Debt – No Time To Pay
In recent years there has been a lot of talk about technical debt in various fields. Technical debt is the cost that […]
Facemask to Filament: 3D Printing with Recycled Facemasks
Photography courtesy of Peter Rosso As a first line of defence against the spread of COVID-19 the facemask, a simple covering worn […]
Demystifying Digital “X” – ICED Conference Paper
The DMF lab recently (remotely) attended the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED) 2021 to present seven papers. One of these, authored […]