Enhancing the content and experience of Interactive Childrens Television. Interactive television (iTV) as a participatory, on-demand communication provides a unique opportunity to significantly engage, entertain and educate preschool children. Through considerable industry partner collaboration and participation, this project will evaluate three distinct interactive options produced from selected children's television programs with proven success in Australia. Usability studies employing a vari ....Enhancing the content and experience of Interactive Childrens Television. Interactive television (iTV) as a participatory, on-demand communication provides a unique opportunity to significantly engage, entertain and educate preschool children. Through considerable industry partner collaboration and participation, this project will evaluate three distinct interactive options produced from selected children's television programs with proven success in Australia. Usability studies employing a variety of surveillance techniques will evaluate content design and user response. Children's viewing habits will be evaluated within a social context (the home) and a mobile lab setting using qualitative and quantitative assessment. The results will identify effective ways to produce meaningful interactivity and will encourage future industry based research.Read moreRead less
Enhancing the Australian theme park experience by harnessing virtual-physical play. This project will deliver methodologies for designing games enriched by virtual-physical play. The project will contribute to furthering Australia's lead in the production of compelling theme park experiences, computer games and interactive training systems. The entertainment, digital media and information and communications technology industries will all benefit as a result.
Fish-Bird: Autonomous Interactions in a Contemporary Arts Setting. This research aims to investigate and expand the dialogical possibilities that exist between multiple autokinetic objects within a new media arts environment. Communication between the objects, and with their audience, will be explored through the modalities of gesture, motion and written text. A new aesthetic framework for interactive artwork will be created through research into autokinesis and the behavioural patterns that evo ....Fish-Bird: Autonomous Interactions in a Contemporary Arts Setting. This research aims to investigate and expand the dialogical possibilities that exist between multiple autokinetic objects within a new media arts environment. Communication between the objects, and with their audience, will be explored through the modalities of gesture, motion and written text. A new aesthetic framework for interactive artwork will be created through research into autokinesis and the behavioural patterns that evolve between people and autokinetic machines. Outcomes will include a major artwork in three stages, underpinned by a robotics software tool set that facilitates composition and experimentation with autokinetic artwork.Read moreRead less
Audio Nomad - A Location-based Handheld Audio Device for Sound-Art Applications. Audio Nomad is a cross-disciplinary project exploring location-aware, mobile audio devices for augmented audio reality systems. A unique and exciting combination of people and research in mobile devices, user interface design, spatial audio and streaming, spatial information systems, and positioning systems with new media arts and sound-art will create a handheld platform and design tools for use in culturally-signi ....Audio Nomad - A Location-based Handheld Audio Device for Sound-Art Applications. Audio Nomad is a cross-disciplinary project exploring location-aware, mobile audio devices for augmented audio reality systems. A unique and exciting combination of people and research in mobile devices, user interface design, spatial audio and streaming, spatial information systems, and positioning systems with new media arts and sound-art will create a handheld platform and design tools for use in culturally-significant applications. User-centred design embracing audio artists and content developers will create design tools for the emerging industry of virtual audio environments. Artists will be energised with new tools to create enriched and unique mobile audio user experiences for entertainment or productivity.Read moreRead less