Carl Smith is the Director of the Learning Technology Research Institute at London Metropolitan University. His research focuses on three areas: 1) using visualization as an interface for applications like memory augmentation and pain control; 2) moving from augmented reality to sensory augmentation to allow experiencing rather than just communicating information; 3) macroscopic visualization to provide both an overview and local point of view of research objects simultaneously. His work explores evolving relationships between form and function and hacking reality through new technologies.

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Visualisation as Interface, Sensory
Augmentation and Macroscopic Learning.
Carl Smith
Director
Senior Research Fellow
Learning Technology Research Institute (LTRI)
London Metropolitan University

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1) Image as Interface: Memory augmentation / Pain
control / Exploring evolutions of form and form function
relationships.
2) Can we use visualisation to enable ‘experience
communication’ rather than traditional ‘information
communication’. Context Engineering: Move away from
augmented reality to sensory augmentation – allowing
us to play with the materiality of the senses.
3) Macroscopic Visualisation.

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Ancient Technology with Modern Pedagogy

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Hacking Reality

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The units of construction

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The label allowed the object to be seen

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Instead of having to learn it you can just see it

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2) Context Engineering: 3D Movie ‘Hugo’
Cured Neuroscientist’s Stereoblindness
Bruce Mcnaughton had lived
his entire life “stereoblind”,
which meant he was unable to
perceive depth correctly.
This new effect stayed with
him after he walked out of the
theatre, because unlike most
regular moviegoers, Bruce had
been unable to perceive
everyday objects with accurate
depth.

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FlyVIZ headset - 360-degree super(vision)
Giving users the power
to see all around them
at once. What does this
mean?
15 min for brain to
adjust. No nausea.
The FlyVIZ can only
give you 360-degree
vision: you must choose
how to use it.

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Analogue and Digital Context Engineering

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Creating entirely new senses – Neil Harbisson can
hear colour with a prosthetic device.

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Artist Neil Harbisson is completely colour-blind
so he create a device to allow him to see colour.
Simple device transforms light waves into sound waves using a
webcam, computer and a pair of headphones with software that
would translate any colour in front of me into a sound. £50
At the beginning he experienced strong headaches because of the
constant input of sound, but after five weeks his brain adapted to it.
“Changed the way I perceive art. Now I have created a completely
new world - currently working on seeing ultraviolet, which is very
important because it can damage our skin.”

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Oculus – Among the Sleep
Among the Sleep, where
players experience the
world through the eyes of
a two-year-old child.
Things seem bigger —
you'll need to look up to see
a doorknob, for instance —
and all you can really do is
stumble around like a
toddler, walking or crawling
away from danger.

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Mirror Neurons: Implications from Neuroscience

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HYUNGKOO LEE – Objectuals
Re-imagining what
already exists and
using perspective
to shape reality
instead of
changing reality
itself is something
that intrigues me.

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“We shape our tools, and thereafter our
tools shape us” - Marshall McLuhan

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3) Macroscopic Visualisation
• The macroscope effectively
provides the overview and the local
point of view of the research object
simultaneously.
• Within one field of view, to be both
in the world and to see yourself in
it. The power of looking through,
and occupying, your own field of
vision.
• Look across data sets and turn
every object of study into a file in
order to discover patterns and
rapidly reframe understanding.

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