Research

After Money

If you change the representation of value, does it change the values that you can represent?

BLING Mid-term Conference

BLING partners from Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland and Sweden present their latest use cases around blockchain. This conference is moderated by Hannah Rudman, researcher and blockchain expert at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC).

Block Exchange

Explore the future of value beyond money in a dynamic workshop activity, run by you! Design Informatics and Design In Action has created a workshop toolkit for anyone interested in exploring the rapidly developing area of Blockchain and DLTs

Call for Participation: DIS 2020 Remote Workshop – Designing for the End of Life of IOT Objects – July 13th/14th

Chatty Factories

Our vision for the manufacturing factory of the future is to embrace the rapid growth of Internet-connected products via embedded sensors producing massive volumes of data, and transform these traditionally discrete activities into one seamless process that is capable of real-time continuous product refinement.

Chatty factory research press releases

Connected High Street

This timely project explores the potential for reconfiguring the traditional organisation of customer, salesperson, cash register, tangible things and database, allowing shops ‘stacks’ of both immaterial and material processes to share data that will improve social and economic conditions.

Design Informatics Webinar – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Design Informatics Webinar – Mel Woods, Dundee

DI Webinar – Audrey Desjardins, University of Washington

DI Webinar – Design Informatics Webinar – Karey Helms, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

DI Webinar – Dr Shama Rahman

DI Webinar – Joseph Lindley and David Philip Green, Lancaster University

DI Webinar – Mina Doosti, University of Edinburgh

DI Webinar – Sara Nabil, Queen’s University

DI Webinar – Uta Hinrichs, University of Edinburgh

DI Workshop Webinar – Paul Thomas, University of New South Wales

GeoPact

Huge benefits in transportation can be gained if Intelligent Transportation Systems such as automated vehicles are enabled to communicate between each other, and their surrounding infrastructure in ways that are simple, reliable, and widely acceptable for human operators. At the same time, it is imperative that the security and privacy of such communications are considered. This project will demonstrate the potential of distributed ledgers such as blockchain as a method of securing the integrity of such systems.

HAT

HAT is a £1.2m multi-disciplinary project funded by the Research Council’s UK Digital Economy Programme. It involves a team of 16 researchers from the domains of Economics, Business, Computing and the Arts across six UK universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Nottingham, Warwick and the West of England

Internet of Second Hand Things

Adopting more sustainable patterns of consumption offers positive outcomes for improving personal wellbeing, minimising resource depletion and meeting environmental targets.

IoT in the Home: Writing and Acting the Future of Autonomous Energy Devices

Focus group

Karma Kettles

Could your kettle do more than boiling water?

Moneylab

Qualified Selves: Co-Creating Meaning Post-Big Data

Qualified Selves is a joint project between Lancaster and Edinburgh Universities. Its novel approach to co-design and co-creation has so far allowed for new and exciting prototypes to be developed to help us think about tracking data in different ways.

Research Seminar: Daniela Petrelli

Research Seminar: Lachlan Urquhart

Research Seminar: Pete Bennett

Pete is a freelance creative technologist, resident of the Pervasive Media Studio and teaching fellow in the University of Bristol's computer science department.

Research Seminar: Rachel Clarke

Rachel Clarke is a Global Challenges Research Fellow at Northumbria University, in the School of Design and Centre for International Development.

Smart Transactions in Public Spaces

From communicating with loved ones to organising our finances, IoT technology enables us to perform an increasingly wide range of tasks on the move, and in a variety of public spaces.

ThingTank

As objects around us begin to collect data and make suggestions about what might be desirable, it is possible that they may even be able to design things that we could never think of. Project Thing Tank is doing design research on these possibilities.