Wolfson Center
Kjen Wilkens, fellow interactionist at the RCA, and I had the chance to visit Dr Luc Berthouze’s lab at the Wolfson Center in London last thursday (University of Sussex and Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit (DCNU), at the Institute of Child Health (ICH), University College London).
Dr Berthouze’s research involves recording the movements of 2 month old babies and studying the data in order to be able to diagnose neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy at an early age. He was kind enough to give us a demonstration of the equipment in the lab, namely 6 Infra Red cameras, capable of recording data at 200 frames/sec, IR markers (more than 50 to fit on a tiny baby) and a range of 3D software to capture and analyse the data.
Luc was very excited to hear about the couple of ideas we had come up with since our phone conversation 2 weeks ago, and his feedback really pushed the projects forward. The Science and Society brief, within which our exchange with Dr Berthouze is framed, finishes this week, so we are currently working hard at producing design outcomes that place his research in a social context.
Tobbie Kerridge and Elio Caccavale are the visiting tutors running the project
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June 5th, 2009 at 3:14 am
da best. Keep it going! Thank you