Our research is grounded in a user-centred approach, in which we build on a deep technical expertise in interaction and distributed systems design to rapidly prototype new interactive technologies, and employ multiple evaluation techniques, ranging from ethnographic studies to simulator experiments, to understand how these are experienced by people in the real world. Our research is therefore highly interdisciplinary, striving to integrate perspectives from Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology, and Art and Design.
Innovation
The innovative technologies and concepts that we create at the MRL span a wide spectrum of fields including Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Virtual Environments, eScience and Distributed Computing.
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Partnerships
We work closely with industrial and cultural partners to explore how our innovations can be applied to many different areas of everyday life including art and performance, games, the home, learning, transportation, healthcare and the environment. We are also fully committed to transferring knowledge from the MRL to industry through collaborative projects and commercialisation activities, and to the general public through touring performances and installations in science centres, museums and galleries.
To find out more about our work, descriptions of current and recently completed projects can be found on the projects page. A range of published papers, videos and other downloads can also be found under the research menu at the top of the page.