research

Smile: enabling people with complex communication needs to articulate emotion through jewellery.

Dr Annalu Waller and Hazel White, College of Art, Science and Engineering, University of Dundee

Charmed: If jewellery had a secret interactive life - what would it be?

What do people really want from interactive wearables? Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Agents of Change

exhibit and paper at New Craft, Future Voices conference and exhibition. The exhibit allowed visitors to interact with jewellery pieces which had a ‘secret life’ when viewed in the magic mirror. Paper published in the Design Journal.

With Ewan Steel

Projects

agents of change

drawing with light

past, present, future craft

written on the body

Hazel is taking part in an evaluation of the Tacitus Haptic software developed by a team led by Anne Marie Shillito at Edinburgh College of Art.

Written on the Body explores how real jewellery objects can control virtual events.

Drawing with Light

virtual jewels are created by drawing with light emitting jewellery. The virtual jewel then tracks its real world counterpart

Past, Present and Future Craft Practice

Hazel White is one of five craft practitioners being observed throughout 2008 by Dr Louise Valentine, as part of an Arts and Humanities research project examining the implicit knowledge within craft practice

Birds In this scenario animated birds flock or disperse when approached. This was user tested to guage how people responed emotionally to the scenario.

Skye Necklace, an interactive jewellery piece which navigates experience by poetry

Hazel White

Published writing 2004 -2008

acknowledgements

Curriculum Vitae