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Participatory development of resource booking and inventory management systems for university laboratories


Ayoub Chahid

14/05/2026

Supervised by Victor Romero Cano; Moderated by Wei Zhou

This project aims to design and implement a resource booking and inventory management system tailored to the unique needs of university laboratories, with the Human Centred Computing and Robotics (HCCR) laboratory as use case. Robotics labs often handle a diverse range of components, including robots, sensors and specialised tools, making efficient booking and inventory tracking a challenging task. The student should:

- use existing implementations of a Resource Booking System for the Human Centred Computing and Robotics (HCCR) laboratory as initial concepts to support the design process. - develop, using human-centred participatory methodologies, an improved version.

The aim is to enable precise tracking, localisation, and loaning of equipment while offering an intuitive and user-friendly interface for both the lab-management team and lab users.


Initial Plan (02/02/2026) [Zip Archive]

Final Report (14/05/2026) [Zip Archive]

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