Projects
Supporting Village Community through Connected Situated Displays
My PhD project builds upon the findings from CASIDE and the Wray Photo Display, which indicated that situated displays showed great promise as a means of supporting rural communities. The project has largely involved working with the community to design incremental improvements to the existing Wray Photo Display, while working towards the deployment of a new display with a greater range of content.
CASIDE: Investigating Cooperative Applications in Situated Display Environments
CASIDE was an EPSRC-funded project which I worked on for three months developing the Wray Photo Display prototype for deployment in a local community. I later evaluated and redesigned this display as a masters project.
I also developed a component for the Hermes 2 door displays which would allow users to send messages to the display outside their office using SMS.
SmartMessenger: Instant Messaging on Smartphones
My undergraduate project was the development of an instant messenger for smartphones, intended to improve on existing mobile clients by taking advantage of the platform. Essentially combining an MSN Messenger client with a proprietary Bluetooth messenger system, the application also contributed a more robust statusing system layered over the MSN Protocol.