Why would you use PEARL? Why should you?
Why would you use PEARL? It is easy to think of PEARL as a massive building with lots of exciting kit inside - but why would you ever...
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Aug 31, 2023
Open House 2023
On 8th and 9th September PEARL will be running guided tours of the space including live demos as part of the annual open house festival!...
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Aug 21, 2023
Call for Participants: Visual Behaviour of Pedestrians at an Unsignalised Crossing
Hi! There will be an experiment at UCL PEARL from 25th September to 5th October I wanted to bring to your attention. The experiment is...
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Aug 18, 2023
Measuring Audience Response to Sound-based Work in Immersive Installations
We are soon to commence research at PEARL into measuring audience responses to the sound-based work within an immersive installation and...
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Jul 31, 2023
NON LINEAR Film School: Applications Now Open!
We are excited to announce that we are part of a brand new 13-week multi-disciplinary intensive training course in creative careers. This...
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Jul 28, 2023
Updated Call for Participants: Public Transport and Working Beyond Age 65
PLEASE NOTE: the eligibility criteria for the final focus group has been widened to include more age groups. See below. At PEARL we are...
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Jul 28, 2023
Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Present, and Shaping the Future in Dagenham
Event Poster for the event series from https://exhibitions.weebly.com/project-overview.html This year saw the local community come...
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Jul 11, 2023
Brook Academy Ambassadors Round Out the Year by Getting Hands-On
By Craig Smith craig-smith@ucl.ac.uk We proudly run an ambassador’s programme at PEARL that provides local secondary school students from...
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Jun 30, 2023
Light & Sound International Visit PEARL
Making and Production Team From left to right. Top: Steve Mayo and Beky Stoddart. Bottom: Ben Paveley, Matt Vile, Ralph Stokeld, and...
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Jun 27, 2023
Call for Participants: Stress and Crowding on the London Underground
At PEARL we are carrying out research to simulate people’s body reaction to stress at different levels of crowding while commuting on the...
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Jun 21, 2023
Call for Participants: Step Heights on the London Underground
We are currently conducting research at PEARL to determine the most suitable stair height for reducing the risk of falls on the London...
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May 13, 2023
PEARL wins RIBA London Regional Award!
PEARL has won yet another award: this time, it is the London Regional Award from the Royal Institution of British Architects! This is an...
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Apr 17, 2023
Call for Participants: an Autonomous Shuttle Experiment
We are currently seeking participants to take part in experiments on the interaction between an autonomous shuttle and pedestrians,...
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Apr 16, 2023
Synchronising the vibe: how we know something is happening
When PEARL was asked to create a sound for the acoustic vehicle alert system (AVAS) being required for e-scooters in London, it was...
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Apr 2, 2023
Why changing the world is so important
PEARL is all about learning and understanding how people interact with their immediate environment. We study this by looking at how...
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Feb 18, 2023
Designing for Experience Rather Than Appearance
We are currently conducting research at PEARL into reintroducing nature into cities and the resulting impact this can have on well-being....
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Jan 16, 2023
Music Futures grants to conduct music-related research at UCL PEARL: now open!
UCL Music Futures is offering two grants of £5,000 to conduct music-related research at UCL PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research...
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Nov 24, 2022
Join our Making & Production Team now!
Are you a creative hands-on technician? Want to work across arts, science and engineering? PEARL's Making & Production Team works with...
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Nov 23, 2022
The History of Pearl
PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) is located on the London East site, in Dagenham, East London. While PEARL has its...
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Sep 9, 2022
PEARL wins CIHT Innovation and Technology 2022 Award
PEARL has been awarded the 2022 Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation/Atkins Award for Innovation and Technology! This award...
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Sep 6, 2022
PEARL @ Open House 2022!
PEARL will be open once again for visitors as part of the 2022 Open House Festival on 16 and 17 September. This year, we will be showing...
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Aug 18, 2022
Join us at the Sensory Supermarket!
Are you interested in learning more about how businesses and organisations could make places more enabling for autistic people with...
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Aug 18, 2022
E-Scooter Sounds Experiment: now recruiting participants!
Image: Tier Scooters UCL PEARL is undertaking some research for Tier Scooters in collaboration with Transport for London to explore the...
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Aug 9, 2022
How PEARL thinks
In creating the PEARL facility, we have created a building in which we can express and develop our thinking about how to design, create...
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