Projects in the lab

We are investigating methods to track Squash players, processing the information using AI and visualising the data in real-time, e.g. for live broadcasting during matches, or by providing performance feedback to the player, e.

We describe how to build and use a cheap and simple device to present haptic stimuli to participants. The device can be either used to present objects to participants in the lab, it could be mailed to participants’ homes with instructions on how to run the experiment or employed it in conjunction with a VR headset to create visual-haptic discrepancies between the object shape or its material properties.

The project aims to understand how musicians synchronise with each other, to build a computational model of the musician’s behaviour, and to create an augmented reality system that allows music rehearsal with virtual avatars.

To address knowledge gaps in VR adoption, we created a living database designed to continuously evolve to collect all possible ways users can move around in VR.

VR experience where participants will perform a Mars exploration tasks. The app is intended to explore how different personalities navigate and respond to challenges in extreme environments.

PrendoSim is a robot gripper simulator that allows scientists working on robotics to generate and test viable grasps using a proxy-hand method and a novel grasp stability metric based on the weight that can be withstood.

We mapped vibrations experienced by the fingertip to the wrist via an optimised function to generate frequencies in the range of 100-Hz to 800-Hz, which best activate the rapidly adapting mechano-receptors in the wrist.

This research project is a collaboration between the Universities of Birmingham and Nottingham, alongside Procter & Gamble, to investigate how tactile, auditory, and visual cues are integrated to perceive surface textures, and how multisensory perception changes with age.