How can you create an innovative immersive experience which blends neuroscience, immersive technology, and movement, for an inclusive audience? This project seeks to explore the research landscape to give firm foundations for their multimedia installation.
This research team want to co-create guiding principles for an intervention to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness (SMI). SMI includes schizophrenia, psychosis and bipolar disorder.
How can poetic writing produced by, or with, AI accurately model human voice, narrative and place-based experience? This project develop new methods to ground voice, experience and unique expression in poetic compositions and multimedia works created with AI.
What agency is afforded to queer people when imagining future technological development? How can we develop creative practices that bring queerness to the forefront of re-inventing approaches to technology?
How will reconstructive prosthetics adapt to future environments? How can creative methodologies and interdisciplinary co-design help answer this question?
How can we explore the ethical considerations of using AI to create art? Could AI provide a crucial tool for poets with access needs to write and create?
To what level does poor social media literacy impact mental health issues and the risk of self-harm in teenagers? How can we combine intervention development and evaluation to improve mental health outcomes at a population level with a media literacy focus in the context of secondary education curriculum development?
How can researchers redress digital exclusion in digital health studies? How can children with ADHD and their families benefit from “just-in-time-adaptive-intervention”?
How can we co-create knowledge with plants? How can academic researchers and art practitioners collaborate to consider practice-based approaches to studying plants?
What role can 3d medical technologies play in exploring one’s identity? What are patients’ perceptions of 3D medical models and the emotional implications that these can carry?
What kind of future ethics will we have for living well with plants? How can technologically mediated encounters with plants be done ethically and sustainably? Will the future of space exploration require us to learn to live well with plants in novel ways?
Can the discipline of engineering find ways to improve the quality of life for those affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa?
How can shared immersive environments facilitate the co-creation of fairer and more sustainable futures? How can communities at the margins be actively included using an immersive digital shared space?
How can participatory research can help us to further our understanding of how the sensory environment affects inclusive design and societal wellbeing?
How much do the sounds around you affect your mood? How much do you need to alter a city’s soundscape to benefit its citizens? Much like air quality, the sounds of our cities affect our wellbeing and health. This project explored how noise pollution in the city can be mapped and the effect of noise on people’s wellbeing.
How can the BDFRN formally establish the network’s structure, research focus and collaborative principles to be used during the upcoming years?
How can an web browser plug in best support fashion activists to find and share information which will be useful to other consumers as well?
Are there any further ways that AD can improve game accessibility? What is the best way to make an audio described game available in a different language and culture? And how can we co-produce a game with visually impaired people that is accessible for all? How can we enhance game accessibility training?
How much do the sounds around you affect your mood? How much do you need to alter a city’s soundscape to benefit its citizens?
How can teachers be enabled to collaborate together at scale as researchers? What barriers and opportunities exist for teachers and academics in the South-West/Wales to collaboratively develop a methodology for teachers to collect data on climate change within their schools?
Can soft-bodied robots help us to combat isolation and loneliness?
How can researchers use soft robotics to develop non-verbal communication aids for people with communication difficulties?
How can engineers, artists and hydroponic growers come together to explore the use of recent robotics innovations from the University of Bristol as a means to advance automation of vertical farming?
Is audio description assisted game playing feasible? Can audio description be applied to game streaming? Can video games include audio description?
How is closeness and distance being renegotiated and navigated? What does it mean to ‘bump into someone’ in the context of home-working and social distancing?
What are the forces that shape the structure our cities? How do pollution and slums impact urban development in the long run?
How can you source and generate content from languages and stories underserved by the wider publishing industry?
Can technologies of virtual and augmented reality re-inscribe historical sites with an alternative history and become a moment of celebration for the cultures that were damaged by this history?
Can our wearable devices such as pedometers, heart-rate monitors, and Fitbits be repurposed to challenge the relationship between the user, the quantified-self, and our understanding of the workplace and beyond?
Can digital tech empower online consumers to respond to environmental emergencies? Can we create a tool that can connect with consumer practices to give people the opportunity to make ethical consumer choices?
In emergency flood disasters, what information is needed from scientists? How should data be presented and within what timeframe?
Are there new ways for citizens to visualise and interact with the data that are routinely collected about them in their everyday lives, e.g. to see the kinds of futures imagined or performed through data?
How might technology be used to deepen the connection between parents and their babies, while they are still in the womb? How can engineers and social scientists come together to explore the potential and challenges of using wearable robotics to enable in utero interactions?
Can active particles be used to create interactive tattoos? What mechanisms are needed in order to make functional tattoos for a variety of applications?
What perceptions do robots have of humans? What does it mean for us to live in a world increasingly inhabited by artificial and augmented intelligence? How can a network be developed that crosses artistic, scientific and engineering disciplines to explore how machines see us?
How can a radical and interdisciplinary team come together to further develop their work on non-visual senses and environment?
How can VR and 5G come together to showcase the South-West as a prominent future thinking, creative tech hub?
When musicians are creating in dialogue with machines how can humans solve problems pre-emptively? How do we cope in the moment? How do we recover? What new ideas emerge from the irreconcilable?
How can game developers and publishers, localisation service providers, game players, and researchers come together to address the issues faced by video game localisation?
What cultural possibilities opened up by the arrival of 5G technology? How can technology bring to life the multilingual history of the Bristol city docks?
How can we reduce anxiety for older people transitioning into care? How can we co-create moments of connection with the people and spaces that will make up future residents' new homes?
How can VR and dance help us to rethink the human perceptual systems and the bias toward vision; the inherent nature of the relationship between perceptual systems and environment for wellbeing; and the ways in which we can re-centre the design for spaces away from visual conspicuity frameworks for sensing, movement and interaction?
Can handling 'playful things' provide focus and relieve anxiety? Students are increasingly seeking mental health support – most commonly for anxiety disorders. This research will explore how touch can be a tool for relieving anxiety.
How do you create sensitive and authentic cinematic representations of grief? Will multiple voices offer a balanced, holistic perspective or will it universalise and generalise the grieving process in an unhelpful way?
Why social play is important? How might social video gaming impact the wellbeing of an individual? Is there a way to fulfil an individual's gaming purpose in a more social environment?
How can collaborative PD methodologies be adapted for individual visual impairment to empower stakeholders in the design process of an inclusive AR/MR learning solution?
How can researchers come together to explore the use of Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology to utilise waste in innovative ways?
What would be needed to live on Mars?
Is there an appetite for using immersive technology in PSHE education? What are the potential risks of using this method? Are young people engaged when using this method?
How can an archive of primary care consultations be used across the disciplines and to engage publics?
Can gorillas use computers? Can they, and perhaps other non-human animals, reach a state of ‘Flow’? Could cognitive game-play positively impact their well-being in zoos?
How might bringing together artists and scientists with shared interests in experimentation and making/culturing generate insights into creative practice?
Is it possible to develop a generic, interactive museum guide, which is transferrable to all museums? What new forms of interactions, engagements and reflections on museums and interpretations might this make possible?
How might live performance offer an interactive and unconventional way to explore how human living might transform when significant environmental change occurs? What role does technology play in that transformation?
To what extent can cultural synaesthesia, through the union of sound and taste, allow people to experience their lives differently?
How can a database of information of events and movements that brought together Asians and Africans across national borders in the 1950s and 1960s be represented in an innovative visual way?
Can soft, interactive textile controls in home furnishing or as a wearable help the elderly access useful technology? Does the added sensory experience of textured textiles, with simple controls, help an elderly person remember how to use them? Does the sensory experience help build an emotional bond with the object?
What methods can be used to reveal under-explored stories and create interactive digital maps of the social networks of Chile’s most prominent indigenous political activists in the early 20th century?
How can researchers to use new digital tools and community-led practices to develop and reveal hidden gems within the Feminist Archive South?
Can we develop a methodology to identify and categorise public spaces? As we move in the city do we understand the changing spaces through which we move and does this have implications for the future?
How can we experiment with creating a repository of translated language that will be both a tool for language learners to learn and practice and for linguists to store and organise pieces of translated text?
How can augmented reality, creative practices and immersive technologies be applied to problems identified by architects, councils and community groups around engaging a broader range of people with local planning?
In what ways can the process of creating video inform future planning of research into the roll out of the OpenUpMusic’s “Open School Orchestras” programme across the nation in 2017-2020?
Digital Storytelling for Anyone’s Child brings together a historian with a creative technologist and a charitable thinktank to experiment with new interfaces for cross-continental digital storytelling about the human costs of the global drugs war in Mexico.
What are the societal, playful, and wellbeing implications of being able to control your phone by blowing on a bottle?
With care home residents and hospital patients spending much of their time indoors, how can we help them to re-connect with nature?
How can we explore an intense interaction of human and machine through a new musical performance work?
