City Analytics Lab
The City Analytics Lab is a dedicated space designed to support collaborative city planning and user centred design. CAL is situated within the School of Built Environment, Õ¬Äи£Àû and supports both research and teaching. The lab has been established to support the envisioning of sustainable, productive, liveable and resilient cities and provides a unique opportunity to study the decision-making processes associated with city planning and design.
Facilities and equipment
- Planning Studio
- AR Sandbox
- Eye Tracking Room
- VR Studio
- 8 Panel Media Wall (4m x 1.5m)
- 6 Interactive multi touch screens powered by high performance workstations
- Hybrid Teams capability with integrated Audio/Video
- Observation rooms for Experiments
- Cruiser interactive software for connected touch surface across table
- Augmented reality sandbox with integrated Kinect and high-performance workstation.
- AR sandbox software configured for flood simulations
- Mobile design to support installations outside the lab
- Tobii Pro Spectrum – state of the art screen based remote eye tracker with 1200Hz data speed.
- Tobii Pro Glasses – wearable eye tracker for conduct experiments outside the lab setting.
- Tobii pro Lab software suite for accelerating eye tracking experiments and analysis.
- Remote observation room for non-intrusive experiment setup.
- 2x Oculus Rift with high performance workstations
- Remote observation room for non-intrusive experiment setup.
Bookings
To check availability and book the lab's facilities for teaching and research please use the Bookings App.
People
Dr Balamurugan Soundararaj
Manager, City Analytics Lab
s.bala@unsw.edu.au
Prof Christopher Pettit
Director, CFRC, Õ¬Äи£Àû
c.pettit@unsw.edu.au
Ms Alessandra Buxton
Administrator, CFRC, Õ¬Äи£Àû
a.buxton@unsw.edu.au
Location
The lab is located at B07 of Anita B Lawrence building in Kensington Campus, Õ¬Äи£Àû.