Enterprise > Innovation at Bath Spa University: Innovation Achievements

3D Weather

The creation of an online software application that will accurately display the experience of weather. The concept is to use realtime 3D graphics to display weather simulations in a web-browser from the viewpoint and position of a user. This is a much more experiential way of knowing what the weather is likely to be or has been, as opposed to abstract or mathematical concepts eg 12 degree Celsius, or 2-inches of rain, 14mph wind, etc. The concept could be used to describe short term weather forecasts, previous weather, or predictions of climate change.

Poetiks Pro

Poetiks Pro is a professional application to enable Universities, Further Education Colleges and schools to monitor and assess their students’ understanding of poetic technique. It builds on the Poetiks platform created for individual users to explore and analyse poetry and will take Poetiks Pro to a stage that will attract purchases or investment. The ultimate aim of Poetiks Pro is to make poetry more fun, more popular, and to make people want to analyse poetry for pleasure and not just because they have to. It has the potential to revolutionise the way the study of poetry is taught and hence improve the quality of poetry that is written.

Guide Book on the Go

With today’s technology and with developments in GPS enabled mobile devices, there is a huge opportunity to create a ‘guide book on the go’ app. This trial project for a ‘Bath App’ will demonstrate the potential for such a guide and how it could be used around the city for visitors and residents alike. Using text, film, sound and vision, and links, this app will provide the user with everything they need to know about in Bath in one simple content application.

Amanda Goode - New from Old

Amanda Goode, a member of staff in the University’s Fashion, Textiles and 3D Design Department received a package of support worth £4,000 to develop her ‘New from Old: re-working the unwanted to produce the ‘must have’ concept'. Using discarded artefacts and materials, Amanda disassembles and combines them to rework them with textile technology into her own designs for the interiors market.

Sam Pickard - Laser Etching on Cork

Funding was awarded for product testing for industry standard compliance for fire retardance and sound absorption that will enable the development of prototypes into commercially viable laser-etched cork panels for use in commercial and domestic interiors.

Penny Grist - Interactive Installation Exploring Visual Memory and Reference of Colour

Award funding was used to develop and test an interactive installation / educational tool that interprets Werner's 'Nomenclature of Colour' taken by Darwin on the voyage of the Beagle. The viewer steps into pools of coloured light and triggers / catches images matching the colour along with a related sound, eg a butterfly will seem to be held in the hands with the accompanying noise of its wings flapping.

Anne Selby - Compleat (TM)

Prototype 'wrapping machine' for pleating and dying textiles, based on the Japanese art of arashi shibori.

Gill Hewitt - Sound Absorbing Textile Art Panels

To test sound absorbing textile art panels, to establish the random incidence sound absorption co-efficients in order to determine whether or not they meet the performance criterion defined in BSEN 354:2003 and European equivalent.

Maggie Powell - Digitally Printed Upholstery Fabrics

Industrial testing of digitally printed furnishing fabrics for commercial application.

MapUK

Colin Bertram, Natalie Robbins and Matthew Thompson, all studying BSc Remote Sensing & GIS, used innovation award funding to develop MapUK - a seamless survey flight planning and navigation system.

Quarternary Research Service

Professor Simon Haslett, Dr Paul Davies and Rachel Chesterton used innovation award funding to identify the market and explore whether the Quarternary Centre's consultancy services could be provided on a viable and sustainable commercial basis.

Dr Anil de Sequeira - SmartKits

Dr Anil de Sequeira, Subject Leader Food Studies, used the award to investigate the feasibility of a laboratory system which could be used to develop a simple inexpensive kit to detect the presence of phenols in water.

Innovation at Bath Spa University