Technology is intrinsic to what we do at the School, and our excellent bespoke facilities reflect the multifaceted needs of our students, teachers and researchers. Take a look at what we have to offer you.
The School has excellent bespoke facilities. You can click the headings below to expand and find out more about some of our facilities below.
The Human Interaction Laboratory aims to develop tools that enable qualitatively new, richer and more engaging forms of human exchange, not recreate or rechannel existing forms of interaction.
The laboratory combines state-of-the-art technologies including full-body and multi-person motion capture, virtual and augmented reality systems and advanced aural and visual display technologies. These will be used to advance research in three key areas:
Capture: automatic analysis of communicative signals such as gesture, expression, gaze and orientation;
Modelling: analysing the mechanisms of mutual-engagement and mutual-intelligibility in communication;
Transformation: reconstruction and projection of augmented cues and resources for human interaction.
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The ITL is a purpose-built building designed by the architectural firm MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, who also designed our student village. The Laboratory was made possible by a generous gift from the Wolfson Foundation and substantial funding from the UFC (now HEFCE).
Equipment and software
Our rolling replacement programme ensures that we maintain a high-quality, modern computing provision with over 300 fully networked multimedia workstations, which run both the Linux and Windows operating systems. Network ports are also provided for students choosing to use their own laptops for practical work. In addition, a wireless network covers all areas of the School.
Open Access
The various labs are open seven days a week, generally between 8am and midnight. Students can also gain remote access to the School’s computing facilities 24-hours-a-day.
The Antennas Measurement Lab (AML) specialises in high-quality measurements for the purposes of antenna design. Supported by full-time professional staff, the facility is arguably one of the most comprehensive among European universities.
It includes a Microwave CATR reflector, a general-purpose anechoic chamber, NSI planar near-field beam pattern scanner, high performance cascade microtech probe system, microwave and mm-wave instrumentation, time domain spectroscopy at THz frequencies, clean-room and circuit printing facilities, and a body-centric wireless sensor lab.
The Media and Arts Technology (MAT) studios at Queen Mary’s Mile End campus have been designed to facilitate many different types of sound, music and performance research.
Uses of the spaces include:
This is an acoustically isolated room for audio recordings and experiments where low reverberation and very low ambient noise are important. The space is equiped for high-end multi-channel audio recording and playback.
The space can be used for a variety of performance research and recording applications including motion capture, audio recording of large ensembles, interactive art installations, use as a film/video sound stage and many more.
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