New tools, technologies and performance interfaces

Overview

This research theme investigates the new methods, platforms and interfaces which constitute new media applications for the creative society. One set of interests focuses on the way these applications can be used for creative expression in music, media arts and performance.

These researchers are devising new approaches to performance capture and interfacing, audience engagement, distributed performance making, telepresence, mobile media and game environments, performer-to-performer communication, digital storytelling, user-led content, frameworks for 'live coding' a/v performance and generative content creation. Technical and conceptual innovations include new software applications, new sonification and visualisation strategies for interactive and museum-based works, new interface prototypes and software-based data mapping for use in performance.

This research focus is complimented by those applying new media tools and technologies across sectors, particularly in domains such as e-health, education, museum presentation, marketing and advertising. In these areas the focus is on innovation in design and the distribution of knowledge-based products and services.

Projects

• Sapporo World Window
• Bluetracker
• The heritage and history of Gasworks
• Network Jamming
• Discussions in space
• Knowmore (House of Commons) - Stage 2
• Network Jamming 2 TEST
• The second life of urban planning
• Environmental data for Queensland households
• Urban sensing and physical computing at The Edge
• Embedding narrative and new media in urban planning
• Urban futures: A performance based approach to residential design
• Restrictions and constraints in mobile narratives for place-based community engagement
• The present via the past: An archaeological approach to analysing the design and use of a contemporary urban village
• Knowledge-based precincts in regional towns
• Fashion as a communication medium to raise environmental awareness and sustainable practice
• Opportunities of media and communication technology to support social networks of urban residents
• Science fiction scenarios and the design of interactive urban screens
• Staging Difference Disability, Spectatorship and the Public Sphere
• Enhancing the experience of people in urban public places through context-aware mobile content and services
• The effectiveness of comparative (Eco-) feedback on domestic energy consumption
• Understanding the implications of networked social interactions for the design of public urban spaces
• Urban informatics
• Technology for sustainable food culture in the city
• Imagining community: Two case studies of the construction of inner city community through consumption
• Playpolis: Transyouth and urban networking in Seoul
• Mapping communicative ecologies and socio-economic innovation in emerging inner-city residential developments
• Paper and print reduction strategies through persuasive technology
• Swarms In Urban Villages: New media design to augment social networks of residents in inner city developments
• HistoryLines: Visualising a residential community's migrational history, memory and shared experiences
• New media design to augment social networks of residents in inner-city developments
• Restrictions and constraints in mobile narratives for place-based community engagement