Outputs (441)

Thermal management of downhole measuring tools using thermoelectric cooling; A numerical and experimental investigation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Vertical seismic profiling (VSP) is a common geophysical technology used in oil and gas investigation in deep wells. VSP provides high resolution and dependable results but is subjected to high temperatures and harsh well environments. As these wells... Read More about Thermal management of downhole measuring tools using thermoelectric cooling; A numerical and experimental investigation.

Textiles design research: from chemistry to craft, towards sustainable design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Academic research in textile design has traditionally been dominated by technical studies situated with science and engineering knowledge frameworks. Increasingly textile designers are undertaking research into technical areas with creative intention... Read More about Textiles design research: from chemistry to craft, towards sustainable design innovation.

Animation - An impossible course (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A talk about the complexities of designing and delivering HE Animation programmes, addressing the multidisciplinary, sticky nature of animation curricula and the challenges of delivering a comprehensive course. It included an investigation of industr... Read More about Animation - An impossible course.

Conventional and renewable energy resources in Oman (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation focuses on the conventional and renewable energy resources in Oman with a specific reference to climate change. The conventional energy resources which Oman is currently using are the oil and gas. These resources also contribute tow... Read More about Conventional and renewable energy resources in Oman.

A method for privacy-preserving context-aware mobile recommendations (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Mobile recommender systems aim to solve the information overload problem found by recommending products or services to users of mobile smartphones or tables at any given point in time and in any possible location. Mobile recommender systems are desig... Read More about A method for privacy-preserving context-aware mobile recommendations.

Neo-industrial biography, glass working and re-configurable toolmaking (2015)
Exhibition / Performance

The title for this exhibition (and presentation) is a reference to Samuel Smiles book: “Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Toolmakers” (1863).
In this book Smiles discusses how advances in tool making was the driving force for the first industr... Read More about Neo-industrial biography, glass working and re-configurable toolmaking.

Laser-dyeing for Sustainable Textile Design (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Current industry standards for dyeing woollen textiles use high temperatures and long processing times to aid dye diffusion. The consumption of water, energy and chemicals used in dyeing and finishing processes have been identified as key challenges... Read More about Laser-dyeing for Sustainable Textile Design.

Film Premier and Q&A: Making Waves (2015): (2015)
Digital Artefact

Almost 40 years after the 1976 Racial Discrimination Act, 'Making Waves' documents the life stories of first and second-generation Black, British citizens from the African-Caribbean and asks if the 'waves' made by one generation have had an impact on... Read More about Film Premier and Q&A: Making Waves (2015):.

Tooteko: A case study of augmented reality for an accessible cultural heritage. Digitization, 3D printing and sensors for an audio-tactile experience (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Tooteko is a smart ring that allows to navigate any 3D surface with your finger tips and get in return an audio content that is relevant in relation to the part of the surface you are touching in that moment. Tooteko can be applied to any tactile sur... Read More about Tooteko: A case study of augmented reality for an accessible cultural heritage. Digitization, 3D printing and sensors for an audio-tactile experience.

Proposing A Digital Laser-Design Supply Service (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The consumption of water and energy used in current dyeing and finishing processes in the textile industry pose significant environmental concern. By offering alternative solutions to traditional textile wet processing through laser technology, there... Read More about The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design.

Laser enhanced dyeing of wool for textile design (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A laser assisted dyeing technique for wool based textiles, allowing surface pattering of the textile substrate, is presented in this paper. Laser technology can offer digital design capabilities combined with the ability for bespoke or short run prod... Read More about Laser enhanced dyeing of wool for textile design.

Towards a design for frugal: Review of implications for product design (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Since 2010 the concept of frugal innovation has increasingly attracted the attention of both researchers and industry. Frugal innovation holds much promise in the rapidly changing global economy. It has been suggested that this approach needs to be u... Read More about Towards a design for frugal: Review of implications for product design.

Digital Casting 2 (2014)
Physical Artefact

After couple of experiments on designing and fabricating differentiated moulds for casting purposes, this project has been developed as a 1:1 scale cellular concrete shell project, although its prototype has been realized only. The idea was to design... Read More about Digital Casting 2.

Grey pin bowl at the "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution" exhibition (2014)
Physical Artefact

Glass Bowls featured at “British Design: from William Morris to the Digital Revolution”

The exhibition was a participant of Russian-British 2014 Bilateral Year and took place in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Intimate yet fundamental, this... Read More about Grey pin bowl at the "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution" exhibition.

Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation (2014)
Journal Article

This is a two-part paper; firstly, describing a collaborative research project aiming to provide innovation in glass investment casting through the exploration of digital fabrication methods. Secondly, illustrating examples of the artistic explorati... Read More about Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation.

Orbit series of glass bowls
Digital Artefact

This conference contribution is an exhibition of a series of glass bowls. These bowls are part of the output from the author’s investigation into a flexible tooling concepts known as Reconfigurable Pin Tooling (RPT) and the ‘Orbit’ series is the resu... Read More about Orbit series of glass bowls.

Track by track: Generative music installation for BBC Music Day
Digital Artefact

A crowd-driven generative music installation at Bristol Temple Meads Station, for BBC Music Day 2018. A live camera feed of the platform is used with machine learning/vision analysis to identify positions and disposition of people, trains, bicycles,... Read More about Track by track: Generative music installation for BBC Music Day.

Disability rights and robotics online public event
Report

Operationalising principles-based output statistical disclosure control
Other

This document is intended to help support staff and managers in research environments to implement principles-based output statistical disclosure control of results generated from confidential sources of data. It contains extensive discussion on the... Read More about Operationalising principles-based output statistical disclosure control.