Better by Design

Musical acoustics boosted by Fellowship

Achieving consistent tone and pitch for supposedly identical wind instruments is a big problem for manufacturers - one that the OU's Acoustics Research Group is now tackling thanks to Newton International Fellowship funding.

Working together to understand shared interfaces

The Open University has been jointly awarded an EPSRC grant which will investigate the benefits of new sharable technologies.

eDance: Shaping Internet Choreography

Amidst strong competition, a bid from the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) has emerged as only one in seven funded in an innovative, joint AHRC+EPRSC+JISC e-Science programme.

Being Able to Join in More: The Co-Space Project

The OU and Mitsubishi have initiated a new project, which will explore how novel interactive surfaces can be designed and used by co-located groups to enhance collaboration and interaction with digital information and physical artefacts.

Shaping the future through collaborative design research

The OU is involved in a new collaborative AHRC funded research project titled 'Design Synthesis and Shape Generation' which began in January 2007.