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, UNSW 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, UNSW
c.pettit@unsw.edu.au
Ms Alessandra Buxton
Administrator, CFRC, UNSW
a.buxton@unsw.edu.au
Location
The lab is located at B07 of Anita B Lawrence building in Kensington Campus, UNSW.