Breathless and Bucking Bronco Adaptive Ride Experiment No.1 feature in this award winning article in the Communications of Association for Computing Machinery. My colleagues and I discuss why interaction needn't be a pleasurable experience to be a rewarding experience.
I had the pleasure of interviewing an international bevvy of Thrill Seekers at the Adventure Film Festival as part of the festival's collaboration with our Nissan JUKE Built to Thrill campaign (see here). My interview technique? First: ask my...
Thrill Laboratory worked with TBWA/London and Nissan Europe to develop a brand activation campaign supported by the work of Thrill Laboratory.
Visitors to our Nissan website discover their very own Thrill Test Score, and enter a competition to participate in...
"For one night only, Thrill Laboratory present an experiment like no other: real scientists, amateur paranormal investigators, and the live exploration of a haunted building. University researchers have developed cutting-edge medical technology to monitor the effect of paranormal beliefs...
Breathless is an interactive experience inspired by Fragonard's Swing. It combines elements of voyeurism, abandonment and breath control to power a ride. Breathless features a motorised swing controlled by breathing data collected from specially developed WiFi gas mask respirators....
The mask monitors and transmits rider's breathing rate in real-time. A set of the masks will be at the heart of new performances this autumn including a motorised swing that manipulates pleasure and fear, and a series of hyperventilating...
Bucking Bronco Adaptive Ride Experiment No.1, along with an extensive interview with me featured in Eureaka magazine - a major colour supplement series from The Times, which explored science and culture. I also provided extensive notes to help the...
Self Examination is an interactive experiment designed to reveal selected audience members' extreme reactions to watching a horror film.
Self Examination premiered at Broadway Cinema's Mayhem Horror Film Festival in Nottingham in 2009. Psycho-physiological signals, such as heart rate, sweat...
I'm back from meeting Dallas Campbell at Thorpe Park, where we conducted one of Thrill Laboratory's signature thrill ride experiments, which was filmed for Bang Goes The Theory. We finished the day back at BGTT HQ, hooking up with...
Could you control a rider's experience based purely on their physiological data?
'Experiment No.1' featured 3 bankers, each with different attitudes to thrill seeking and risk taking (this work was created at the time of the 2008 financial crisis). Members...