UAL Creative Computing Institute

It’s all… popping off! 🎉

Congratulations to all of our postgraduate students on this momentous day 🎓We’re so proud of you! Thank you for your creativity, from your first steps to your final shows – it’s been a real honour to be part of your journey.

Swipe through for highlights from today’s onstage celebrations from the Royal Festival Hall. 📸

Hit Me Not is an investigation from Theo Willitts from Diploma in Creative Computing. The project aims to discover how we can better orchestrate the design and development of active travel in our cities through data collection, analysis and communication.

Taking the form of an app, Hit Me Not allows users to report traffic incidents while on-the-go to gain a qualitative and quantitative advantage over other crowd-sourced feedback systems.

To learn more about Hit Me Not and other student projects, visit UAL Showcase – our always-on platform for student work: https://bit.ly/40WNPcz

To what extent are we able to think and communicate through nonverbal codes?

That’s the question asked by Mia Zeferino-Birchall from UAL Diploma in Creative Computing. The answer is ‘DANCE|COMMUNICATION’ – an experimental study of embodied cognition and nonverbal communication.

“Inspired by my lifelong love of dance, I delve into the world of visualising the nonverbal and transforming movement and gestures into an interactive visual language,” says Mia of her project, which blends together performance and audience.

To learn more about ‘DANCE|COMMUNICATION’ and discover more student projects, visit UAL Showcase – our always-on platform for student work: https://bit.ly/4rssjro

Does visible sadness in a soft-robotic artefact elicit empathy and reduce verbally aggressive language during human-robot interaction?

That's the question that Janice Lee from MSc Creative Robotics aims to answer with her project 'Crying Robots & Human Empathy'. It investigates how humans respond when a robot displays sadness through tear-like behaviour and a distressed gaze.

To learn more about making robots cry, discover Janice's project (and many more) on UAL Showcase, the always-on platform for student creativity at University of the Arts London: https://bit.ly/3NRNlks