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PAIPR is delighted to welcome Ariana Mihoc to the group. Ariana, shortly to complete her MSc with the Cardiff School of Art & Design,  is the recently appointed scholarship holder for a Vice Chancellor’s Doctoral Award. The award was won by Steve and Andy with Dominic Eggbeer, head of PDR’s Medical Applications Group. It will fund research into the uses of PAIPR’s rapid, low fidelity, prototype led ethnography for the development of  patient specific medical devices.

Gareth Loudon will run a product and service innovation workshop for public sector managers in Wales next week. Managers will come from organisations including the NHS and the Welsh Assembly Government to the workshop on the 12th of January.

Gareth Loudon will be running a workshop session next week on how technology, communications and networking can play a role for international artists based in Wales. The workshop on 26th November, is part of the Wales Arts International Symposium in Cardigan.

 

 

The PAIPR team at PDR, in collaboration with PDR’s Medical Applications Group, have secured funding for a 3 year Design Research PhD Bursary. We’re looking for a PhD student to investigate new techniques for product deployment using rapid prototype based ethnographic appraisal techniques. The focus of the work will be medical product development. The project will utilise PDR’s new user experience observation laboratory in combination with end‐users, scenarios, props and appropriate prototypes, to explore the possibilities of increased development speed and reduced development cost, whilst simultaneously producing better, safer products aimed at the specific and bespoke needs of users.

For more details, and to apply for this position, click here: http://www3.uwic.ac.uk/English/uwicresearch/researchdegrees/Pages/VCDA%27s.aspx

Gareth Loudon’s experience and knowledge in the creativity process has been recognised in the form of  a UWIC Teaching Fellowship award to look at how to embed the concept of Deliberate Play into the Product Design curriculum and beyond.

 

“What will future interactive products be like?”

Product design is a discipline in a state of such rapid change that it is in a constant state of reassessment. One of the ways in which this is most apparent is the field of computer embedded product where the blurred and overlapping discipline boundaries between product designers, HCI experts, usability professionals, ethnographers, computer programmers, electronic engineers and others continue to cause problems for us humans on the receiving end of their efforts. Arguing for a more coherent interdisciplinary approach and drawing on his experience in the field of information appliance development and his research into possible future interaction methods, Steve will review trends, fads, cultures and theories and, by looking both forward and backward, make some educated guesses as to where they may lead us.

 

Gareth Loudon will be running a product innovation workshop for business leaders in South Wales today. The workshop is part of the Twenty 20 Leadership programme run by UWIC’s School of Management.