Interactive desk could transform classrooms

Irish researchers have developed a hi-tech interactive school desk which could transform the classroom environment and predict learning difficulties.

A team at Cork Institute of Technology’s Nimbus embedded systems research centre have built a prototype system which turns an ordinary school desk into an interactive touch-sensitive interface.

And the team, led by senior software researcher, Stephen Collins, has now been awarded a €296,000 Enterprise Ireland grant to help commercialise their Tip tap tap system.