This video shows a novel mixed-reality student desk, that enables people in different geographical locations to work together making technology based gadgets (something that to-date was not possible with conventional online systems).. A notable feature of this work is that product concept originated from a science-fiction prototype, "Tales From A Pad" (available from victor.callaghan.info/publications/2010_CS10(TalesFromAPod).pdf), that provided a future vision of education. Science Fiction Prototyping (SFP) is a s methodology proposed by Intel's Brian David Johnson for product innovation. You can learn more about this product innovation method by visiting creative-science.org. Finally, it needs to be acknowledged that the work was conducted at the University of Essex by Anasol Pena-Rios as part of a PhD supervised by Prof Vic Callaghan and Dr Michael Gardner.
