Innovation at Bath Spa University
Adam Butler - Interactive Pool Table Installation
Adam Butler, a third year student studying a BA in graphic communications at Bath Spa University’s School of Art & Design received funding for his concept to develop a machine vision software kit. Adam’s prize is a package worth £10,000, which includes seed-corn funding for prototype development as well as expert business advice, guidance and mentoring from an industry expert in this field.
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.
Laura Kalbag - Mobile Phone Voting Application
Laura Kalbag won funding to build a prototype iPhone/iPod Touch application, encouraging young people to vote through the provision of unique and engaging information on political issues and a way of casting their actual vote at the time of the local, general and EU elections.
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.
Daniel Perez - International Student Podcast
Daniel Perez, a commercial music student, used innovation funding to develop a sustainable system of content production for an international student podcast.
Anne Curley and Karen Fernandez - Shakespeare Interactive
In developiong the Shakespeare Interactive Educational Tool, the aim was to create a show-reel which could be used for demonstration purposes. The final product would allow students to learn using constructionist and constructivist pedagogy.
Related Case Studies:
- Innovation - Laser Etching onto Cork
- Innovation - Darwin Interactive Installation
- Innovation - Cross Platform Mobile Application
