About Calvium

Calvium is a software services company founded by ex-HP Labs engineers with a passion for making technology accessible to the creative industries. We are based in the Pervasive Media Studio within Bristol's Watershed.

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AppFurnace is our flagship product and we are fully committed to making it the best app development experience possible. We have designed AppFurnace with design agencies and client work flows in mind. We want any business interested in making an app to be able to make one themselves. But if you would prefer us to make an app for you, or help you along the way then we have a wealth of experience you can count on.

Associates

We can call on a network of associates for story writing, content production, game creation or project management if needed

Company Information

Calvium is the trading name of Calvium Ltd.
Registered office The Old School House, 75a Jacobs Wells Road, Bristol BS8 1DJ
Company registration: 07055812
VAT registration: 112476634

Calvium Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 07055812

Jo Reid

Jo heads up the consultancy side of Calvium offering expertise in mobile experience design, in particular location and context aware applications. She works with customers on iPhone and Android App development and has recently created history inspired located games, community story telling walks trails, hunts and quiz games.

Jo was formerly a senior researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories with expertise in experience design and user-centred research, specialising in mobile location aware experiences or mediascapes. Jo has also worked for Texas Instruments on information engineering expert systems and Xerox on HCI prototyping systems.

She holds an MBA, a BSc in Computer Science and is currently working on a PhD researching how people make sense of pervasive technologies and environments.

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Ben Clayton

Ben was previously a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories where he specialised in graphical design tools for non-technical programmers. Ben has also worked as a Research Assistant in the Computer Science department of Bristol University on the Mobile Bristol project. He holds a MEng in Computer Science from Bristol University.

Tom Melamed

Tom has been a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, a Research Assistant at Bristol University and an engineer for a smart card solutions provider. He was one of the developers of mscape and Mobile Bristol. He specialises in mobile client development and sensor development and integration. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Physics.

Richard Hull

Richard was formerly a senior researcher at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories where he undertook and led research in a wide range of technologies. Most recently, Richard was the technical lead and architect for the mscape platform and the Mobile Bristol collaborative project. He holds a DPhil in Computer Science from Sussex University and has authored around forty publications and patents.

Kieron Gurner

Kieron is a designer and developer of interfaces, websites and experiences with a keen interest in human-computer interaction.

He has a BSc in Web Design and when he's not working with Calvium, he's building websites for creative people in Bristol.

About Calvium

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Jo Reid

Ben Clayton

Tom Melamed

Richard Hull

Kieron Gurner

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