The main character in the story in our iCARE project is our narrator, Mariatu Kamara. She lives in a rural village in Sierra Leone with her husband Ali, son Mohamed and daughter Yaema. The Kamara’s live in a 3 roomed…
iCARE
Illustrating Tonkolilli
by elizabeth seymour • • 0 Comments
As the illustrator for the iCARE project, I have had the task of recreating a rural village from Tonkolilli in Sierra Leone in a recognisable, and yet comic-book fashion – quite a challenge! Our contacts in Masanga Hopsital were able…
Game Based Learning, iCARE, Interactive Comic Book
iCARE – challenges with loading many assets into an app
by Rob Hart • • 0 Comments
As my role as lead developer for the iCARE project, I wanted to make sure this app works as well as possible on the mobile devices being sent out to Tonkolilli in the summer (iPad Air 2 – 16GB, WiFi…
Project management, Projects
Preventing project scope creep
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Part of my personal development is to up skill myself in ways that are good for the team and the university, today I looked at scope creep. In my career of making things for people, one of the more frequent…
3D, Augmented Reality, Game Based Learning, Simulation
How will virtual reality change our lives?
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Virtual Reality (VR) has been with us for many decades – at least as an idea – but the technology has now come of age. And it’s not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers. Four…
Game Based Learning
Mobile game Sea Hero Quest ‘helps dementia research’
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Dementia researchers have developed a video game that could lead to the development of early diagnostic tests for the disease. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36203675
3D, Simulation, Virtual reality
Paranoia ‘reduced with virtual reality’
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Virtual reality has been used to help treat severe paranoia. Patients who suffered persecutory delusions were encouraged to step into a computer-generated Underground train carriage and a lift. The simulations allowed the study’s 30 patients to learn social situations they…
RLO, Uncategorized
Optical Character Recognition, OCR
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Have you ever been given an image with a bucket load of text on it and had to transcript it to readable text, not the most fun for a creative to do. But now you need worry no longer.. Here’s…
3D, Augmented Reality, Game Based Learning, Immersive Virtual Reality - Community Dentistry, Mobile, Simulation, Uncategorized, Wearable Technology
Blended Reality
by tim wheeler • • 0 Comments
Firstly take a look at this link on Google Plastic. It has 20×20 resolution, is fully interactive and absolutely no lag! https://www.google.com/get/cardboard/plastic . I have to say I was very excited to see what Google had to offer next…. (thanks Lizzie!) Samsung…