Mediums
Bio sensors
Wearables
Sculpture
Mobile technology
Partners and exhibitions
FACT
Community Integrated Care
UCL
Wellcome Trust
Bloomsbury Gallery
Memory Album at FACT. Made in collaboration with Green Heys Care Home
Audiences at Hold exhibition FACT
Hold explores the relationship between touch sense and loneliness and the impacts of touch deprivation on our physical and mental wellbeing, exploring the physiological effects of being held and the health and life giving property of touch. Hold asks audiences to consider and reflect on the effects of their own presence and visceral relationship to others.
According to Age UK research over a million people go more than a month without any direct contact with a friend or family member, a serious public health issue for society at large. Co-designed with individuals and their families living with dementia, Hold presents a series of interactive artworks exploring how sensory and generative technologies can enhance connections between families and their relatives in care.
Hold was developed in partnership with Professor Nadia Berthouze (Professor of Affective interaction and Computing in the faculty of Brain Science UCL) and Remote Contact was created in collaboration with Professor Carey Jewitt (Professor of Learning and Technology UCL)
Touch Prototypes
Memory Album
Made in collaboration with Green Heys Care Home
An interactive photo album designed for care home residents that can be updated remotely by relatives and carers, enabling family members to upload new photos for a resident in real time and for carers to individualise a resident's experience. Memory album projected images tailored for each individual user tracking where and how they touched the pages at the same time as logging their vital signs. The data collected revealed details about the importance of photos and how they are touched.
Finalist in the Technology category – Third Sector Care Awards 2018
I wanna hold your hand
Made in collaboration with Phil and Julie
I wanna hold your hand became a pair of Sensor Gloves designed to map the different types of touch that exist when they walk, the loving touch of companionship and also the touch of support, both changing. The gloves recorded data of Phil and Julie's touch and their walks together, reading heart rate, galvanic skin response, pressure of different areas of the hand and the GPS route of their walk. This data was later sonified into small analogue music boxes that could be replayed at home.
Rethinking the mobile phone
Made in collaboration with Roy
Reimagining the phone as a sensory device that connects participants remotely by emulating their body temperatures via the handset as they speak.
