Cybernetics is the study of interacting systems. These are of most interest when they behave unpredictably. I am the University of Reading professor of interactive systems.
My research interests centre on measuring and understanding human interactions, especially when they involve haptics interaces, robots, or exoskeletons, but also if they involve simple things like chairs.
Together with my students we are pursuing research in
- Sphere: measuring and classification health related activities
- Haptic interactions for Learning in 3 dimensions
- Robot mediated stroke rehabilitation
- Stability of haptic interfaces
- High performance actuators for haptics
- Multifinger haptics
- Reconstruction of movement from IMU data
- Acquisition and analysis of movement from wearable sensors
- Upper limb exoskeleton kinematics
- Rapid hand grasps
- Biomechanics of cell structures
