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    xCoAx Paper

    Leveraging some of the work that I completed in my Masters project, I applied for - and got accepted to - the xCoAx journal proceedings in Portugal. From the conference: The “x factor" in xCoAx – that spellbinding glue that holds arts, computation and communication together – is what makes thi[...]
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    Biokinesis - Electromagnetic Grids

    CLIENT:                     Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2011-2013   This is a component of my current Masters project.  The project seeks to remove dennotative symbol based communication with an abstract interface that uses movement to convey interface logic. The magnetic grid is mad[...]
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    Biokinesis - Neural Networks

    CLIENT:                     Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2011 - 2013 COLLABORATION:   Dr Nigel Yee   This is a component of my current Masters project.  The project seeks to remove dennotative symbol based communication with an abstract interface that uses movement to convey interface l[...]
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    Interface Design Machine 2.0

    CLIENT:                     Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2012 COLLABORATION:   Noel Zeng & Peter Koraca As a core concern of my current project I have tried to understand what are people’s natural gestures, rather than the learnt behaviours that we currently employ with touchscreen based de[...]
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    Turbino - Design Camp 2011

    CLIENT:                     Designskolen Kolding PROJECT DATE:       2011 COLLABORATION:   Christopher Helm-Hansen, Laura Locher, Lisa Fee Paura, Tuomas Sahramaa & Jeppe Jeppesen   In late 2011 I was nominated to attend the Design Camp run by the Designskolen Kolding in Denmark.[...]
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    Reeflex

    Reeflex from Ben Jarrett on Vimeo. CLIENT:                     Designskolen Kolding PROJECT DATE:       2012 COLLABORATION:   Anja Debelo, Sanja Radakovic & Sona Flajžíková Reeflex physically consists of a large interactive screen that is connected to a set of cameras controlled by[...]
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    12 Hour Car

    CLIENT:                     Internet Car Design Competition PROJECT DATE:       2012   When I first got to Designskolen Kolding for a semester exchange I was broke, so I decided to look for a design competition with weak entries and an imminent closing deadline.  Additionally I onl[...]
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    Interface Design Machine 1.0

    CLIENT:                     Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2011   This machine is designed to allow insight into user’s natural mappings regarding media devices. I hacked a piece of security software, and used it to both play an instructional movie and record the viewer’s hands as they [...]
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    Audiosine 700W Reference Amplifier

    CLIENT:                              Audiosine Ltd PROJECT DATE:       2009 This amplifier is a self-directed project investigating high power Class D stereo amplification. Utilizing Hypex UcD700 HRX modules that output 700W into a 4 ohm load this amplifier can power any domestic loudspeaker [...]
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    VIP Icebreaking

    CLIENT:                     The Complete Package Ltd., Rugby Tourism & Hospitality Ltd. PROJECT DATE:       2011   I was asked to provide a presentation to a mix of interests that were involved in delivering the 2010 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand, which is the 4th largest sporting[...]
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    Garrard 401 Turntable Base

    CLIENT:                     Japanese Collector PROJECT DATE:       2011 The Garrard 401 plinth was a self-initiated project that was aimed at creating a small business supplying the perfectionist Japanese market.  Using the later, 1970s styled Garrard, and recognizing the more conservative aes[...]
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    Ovid Amplifier

    Piccolo Amp Animation from Ben Jarrett on Vimeo. CLIENT:                     Unitec & Audiosine Ltd. PROJECT DATE:       2010 The Ovid amplifier comprises half of my final undergraduate project.  The form-changing device arises from research that I completed, that seek to eliminate [...]
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    Ovid Loudspeaker

    CLIENT:                      Audiosine Ltd, Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2010 The companion piece of the Ovid Amplifier, this loudspeaker was submitted as my final undergraduate project. Underlying the loudspeaker was the intention to really examine the loudspeaker in terms of materiality, an[...]
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    Highwic Project Management

    CLIENT:                      Highwic, Historic Places Trust & Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2010 COLLABORATION:   Guy McLean, Shauvon Quin, Thomas Yee, Alexey Efimov & Bruce Bonnar   This was the first major project of the last year of our undergraduate degree.  It also was the[...]
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    Highwic - Personal Output

    CLIENT:                     Highwic, Historic Places Trust & Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2010 My personal response to the Highwic project was to engage in the first ‘formal’ interaction design that I had pursued.  I found this project fascinating and spent many hours working on it above my [...]
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    Oracle Touchscreen

    CLIENT:                     Oracle Racing / The Complete Package PROJECT DATE:       2009   In 2010 I was asked to provide a design for the engineers from Oracle Racing Yachts.  They desired a large mobile touchscreen that they could use to bring up engineering drawings and data 'live'[...]
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    Lowrance HDF

    CLIENT:  Navico/Lowrance & Unitec PROJECT DATE:   3rd Quarter 2009 The Lowrance/Navico system was a ‘live’ collaboration which was our third project in the second year of my degree.  The brief was to create a possible future view of where Navico could position the Lowrance subsidiary, and [...]
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    CELLS

    CLIENT:                       Da Kun Ltd / Audiosine Ltd / Self Directed PROJECT DATE:       2009 COLLABORATION:  Joshua Stewart Computer Engineered Lattice Loudspeaker System CELLS is a self directed project that investigates the potential of computer algorithms and Selective Laser Sint[...]
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    Nelumbo Circadian Light

    CLIENT:                     Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2009 The Nelumbo light was the final project from the second year of my undergraduate degree. The Nelumbo light responds to the Circadian rhythm of the Earth and is primarily designed for city children’s bedrooms as an aid to get to sle[...]
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    Well Tempered Turntable Styling

    CLIENT:                     Well Tempered Labs PROJECT DATE:       2009   In late 2009, Frank Denson, part owner of Well Tempered Labs, asked me to provide a styling exercise for a new higher end alternative to the existing Amadeus turntable.   I have always admired Bill Firebaugh's or[...]
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    Staedtler Stapler

    CLIENT:                    Staedtler NZ / Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2009 The Staedtler brief was our first ‘live’ project.  Students could choose either a tape dispenser, or stapler, and were asked to anticipate future product offerings on behalf of the German company. I attempted to engag[...]
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    Garrard 301 Turntable Plinith

    CLIENT:                     Derek Gehring PROJECT DATE:       2009 COLLABORATION:   Derek Gehring The Garrard 301 project was initiated by a friend of mine; Derek Gehring.  Originally found in old one piece stereo sideboards, the idler wheel driven 301 was formerly considered a very good tu[...]
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    Kondo Niwashi

    CLIENT:                     Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2008   Kondo Niwashi is the result of an undergraduate second year project based on ergonomics research.  We had previously completed paper on ergonomics and design research methodology that introduced us to user testing and usabil[...]
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    Ceramics

    CLIENT:                       Unitec PROJECT DATE:       2007  
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    Synedoche

    This is short video made with Nick Gill as part of a first year's Creativity class. It splices elements of Vincent Ward's The Navigator, Idaho Transfer by Peter Fonda and a BBC nature documentary - Planet Earth if I remember correctly....     Synedoche from Ben Jarrett on Vimeo.