Research Arcade

Drop in (no booking necesary) at Cadman Room, Millenium Gallery, Surrey Street Sheffield S1 2LH

Join researchers from the University of Sheffield for a fully immersive exhibition exploring our digital lives. At the Research Arcade, people of all ages can experience the ways in which digital technology affects our lives today, and how it may affect our lives in the future.

Step into someone else’s life with virtual reality, test your crypto-trading skills in an arcade-style computer game, embark on a choose-your-own sci-fi adventure, and explore the consequences of digital exclusion by playing a life-sized board game.

The Research Arcade is an interactive, family-friendly exhibition, based on current social science research from the University of Sheffield.

LifePathXR: experience a life in virtual reality
Experience the immersive ‘Trevor’s Story’ in virtual reality - a 360 film demonstrating LifePathXR, a new tool for creating an 'extended reality' version of your life story.

Choose Your Own Legal Adventure in Crypto
Think you can make money buying and selling cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum? Play this text-based arcade game and experience what it's like to trade in the cryptosphere, while learning about the legal pitfalls you might fall into.

Animating Inclusion
Watch this animated film exploring deaf audiences’ experiences of suspense in film and TV and have a go at creating your own creative captions.

Law Yeah! Learning about the law through play
Meet researchers from the Law School and play their iPad game all about young people’s legal rights and responsibilities. 

Prototyping the Imagination: Play through Technology Futures
Embark on a sci-fi adventure, exploring the future of technology through interactive short stories that change according to your choices!

Mind the Gap: Tackling Digital Exclusion
Play a giant, life-sized board game with social scientists and discover how being ‘digitally excluded’ from society can impact people’s lives.