Richard R. Fletcher

Air and water pollution are well-known concerns in cities throughout the world. However, communities often lack practical tools to measure …

We have been developing comfortable, safe, attractive physiological sensors that infants can wear around the clock to wirelessly communicat…

We have developed a low-cost device that can wirelessly detect a beating heart over a short distance (1m) and does not require any sensor p…

We are exploring innovative use of cell-phone Bluetooth technologies for consumer research and customer measurement. We have developed a s…

We have created a system that allows a person's heart rate to be displayed on an ambient orb color display. This system uses a heart-rate s…

Plants are very common in our world and and contain a vast amount of information. Although there are open debates about the intelligence o…

We are developing a lower-cost portable system which allows passive RFID tags to be tracked on a flat surface. By creating a system that tr…

As information takes on new physical forms in the environment around us, there is a need for new types of instrumentation to detect and to …

Origami Desk is an interactive installation where users learn to fold paper into beautiful shapes. Origami Desk improves on the inscrutable…

The need for low-cost sensors and ID tags is ongoing. Our work explores how ID and sensor information can be encoded in the electromagnetic…

musicBottles introduces a tangible interface that deploys bottles as containers and controls for digital information. The system consists o…

This project addresses the need for friendlier solutions to the issue of medication compliance. Sensepad is a portable platform which can a…