Equator is an EPSRC funded Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) running for 6 years and bringing together multidisciplinary expertise. The research domains include collaborative virtual environments, cooperative work, ethnography, design, distributed systems, mobile and wearable computing and social science.
The central goal of the Equator IRC is to promote the integration of the physical with the digital. In particular we are concerned with uncovering and supporting the variety of possible relationships between physical and digital worlds. In doing this our objective is to improve the quality of everyday life by building and adapting technologies for a range of user groups and application domains.
Sussex's Equator studies are based on the "Play and learning" theme of Equator. We are exploring and extending current forms of playful interaction by developing a combination of interactive digital toys and collaborative playgrounds. Our overarching goal is to combine the computational power of digital technology with the pleasure and imagination engendered by interacting with physical artefacts, both indoors and outdoors.
More about Equator at Sussex is available here.
The Interact Lab is a research centre concerned with possible interactions between people, technologies and representations. Its focus is on developing novel user experiences in a variety of settings, including the home, schools, public spaces and work. A major Interact goal is to create innovative experiences by embedding physical artefacts in the environment with intelligence. Another is to understand the socio-cognitive basis by which people interact with innovative media and environments. It is based in the interdisciplinary school of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex. It currently has a mix of faculty, researchers and postgrads from backgrounds in psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, interaction design, hardware engineering and the 'arts'.
More about the Interact Lab is available here.
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February 2002 by Hilary