CARIAD: Centre for Applied Research in Inclusive Arts and Design

The CARIAD researchers put people at the heart of design. The group represent a mulit-disciplinary team including film, animation, graphic and interaction design, software art, haptics, textile art practice, product development research, health psychology, and performance analysis.They work in a fast-emerging field in which the arts contribute to health, wellbeing, social inclusion and healthcare practice across a range of settings and end-user populations. This includes artists, health care professionals, community workers, and researchers in the public, private and voluntary sector. The active participation of end user populations with specific developmental, cognitive and sensory needs us the driver for our work.

Contact: Dr Wendy Keay-Bright

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Somantics - The Somantics concept is a a suite of applications that use touch, gesture and camera input to encourage, capture and amplify the interests of young people with Autistic Spectrum Conditions and other related communication difficulties. The overarching goal of Somantics is promote greater self-awareness, confidence and independence.

Reactickles - ReacTickles explores how the qualities of colour, light, shadow, movement, 3-dimensionality and proximity could become the trigger for new and engaging forms of communication across multiple platforms.

Taglearning - ReacTickles 2 on the TAG Engaging Creativity website.

Echoes2 - ECHOES is a technology-enhanced learning environment where 5-to-7-year-old children on the Autism Spectrum and their typically developing peers can explore and improve social and communicative skills through interacting and collaborating with virtual characters (agents) and digital objects.