Attended Conference on Creativity in Design
Just recently came back from a conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design (DESIRE’11) in Eindhoven where I presented some of my latest research work. You can see more details on the research here.
Rikoset Winner at Best of Welsh Design Awards 2011
Congratulations to Baz and the team at Rikoset for being one of the winners of the Best of Welsh Design Awards last night in Cardiff.
Speech Recognition problems in Scotland
As I spent time in the 1990’s working on Speech Recognitin for Apple, I loved this video clip of a new speech recognition technology for Lifts (elevators) in Scotland. Classic.
Rikoset Shortlisted for Best of Welsh Design Awards 2011
Rikoset (one of the companies I am involved in) has been shortlisted for the Welsh Design Awards 2011 in the Product and 3D Design category.
Talk on Play for Creativity and Learning
I recently gave a talk at the Cardiff Design Festival on ‘The Importance of Play for Creativity and Learning’. You can see some images from Jorge Lizalde on the series of talks.
Setup the Centre for Creativity and Innovation
I recently set up the Centre for Creativity and Innovation with Gina Deininger to bring together our knowledge, experience and new research studies.
Talk on “Beliefs in Creativity”
I recently gave a talk on “Beliefs in Creativity”. The presentation slides are online on Prezi.com if you are interested. I will also put up a video of the presentation in the near future.
Workshop for Mothercare designers
Recently ran a 2-day workshop at UWIC for Mothercare on ethnography and new product development. Plan to run similar workshops in the future.
Attending 3-day Plastic Electronics Workshop
I am attending a 3-day interactive workshop next week (1st – 3rd March) run by the UK Technology Strategy Board that is “to find end-use applications and associated designs that can be used within plastic electronics and produce demonstrators with potential for real commercial value … The Technology Strategy Board has allocated up to £3m to fund industry-led collaborative demonstrator development projects arising from the workshop.” Should be an interesting and fun experience.
WISE KIDS conference
As my role as a non-exec Director on WISE KIDS I thought I should promote the upcoming 1 day conference WISE KIDS are hosting in South and North Wales respectively (together with the Wales Internet Safety Partnership) on “Young People in a Digital World 2010 – Preparing, Supporting and Inspiring “. See more at the http://www.wisekids.org.uk/conf2010/