{"id":2388,"date":"2019-07-18T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T19:57:34","slug":"wearable-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/07\/18\/wearable-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"wearable tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/lanyards.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2389\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/lanyards-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"lovely, generous people wearing lanyards and mics\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/lanyards-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/07\/lanyards.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovely, generous people wearing lanyards and mics. Pictures taken by Laura, no rights reserved by me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The teams in LTW&#8217;s Learning Spaces Technology spend a lot of time thinking about how best to provide high quality AV services to a diverse university community across a very mixed estate.\u00a0 We aim to ensure that our technology is universal and accessible to all and that the benefit we provide to the university is useful in enabling accessible and inclusive teaching.<\/p>\n<p>We support 400 rooms and 30,000 hours of teaching every semester. We pride ourselves in providing high microphone quality across the University Estate, hence why we use high-tier quality Sennheiser models.\u00a0 We upgrade and improve our services on a rolling basis. Whenever Sennheiser produce a smaller or lighter model or a new technology solution we check it out.\u00a0 The current model that we provide in teaching rooms is easily worn on a lanyard ( as modelled). This makes it an ideal, gender neutral solution as it doesn&#8217;t require\u00a0 a belt or pockets and works fine with any neckline or <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/06\/27\/mic\/\">dress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has to be said, we&#8217;ve tried out some smaller, wireless mics around the place, but the quality just wasn&#8217;t good enough for the serivce we provide for learning and teaching but you can look forward to \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.sennheiser.com\/global-downloads\/file\/12309\/TI_1247_v1.0_TCC2_White_Paper_EN.pdf\">flexible beamforming<\/a>\u2018 from Sennheiser. We\u2019ll be trialling this in the new spaces on campus and in Edinburgh Futures Institute building when it is ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teams in LTW&#8217;s Learning Spaces Technology spend a lot of time thinking about how best to provide high quality AV services to a diverse university community across a very mixed estate.\u00a0 We aim to ensure that our technology is universal and accessible to all and that the benefit we provide to the university is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[199,345,53,124,358,284,354,73],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","category-eople-place-work","tag-accessibility","tag-av","tag-diversity","tag-equality","tag-how-do-you-wear-yours","tag-inclusion","tag-universal-design","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}