Interviewees needed
February 19, 2008
Posted by Emma in: Technology | bristol | pervasive | Add a commentPlot London are looking for interviewees for their Media Sandbox project Happy Towns this weekend – Saturday 23rd to Monday 25th February.
They're looking for a range of people at different stages of their lives with diverse attitudes to technology - you might embrace new technologies or be a sceptic…
• A man who is head of the family
• A woman who is head of the family
• An infant school child or a junior school
• Teenagers in pre-exam study time
• Someone who owns their own business
• A grandfather or a grandmother
• A student
• An unmarried young couple just starting out
• A couple with a new baby
If you are Bristol based, come under any of the above categories and are willing to be interviewed for about an hour and half, please drop Gill an email or give her a call on 07966 209 615
Research from your interview will inform Plot as to how they can design things that will make what you are doing now either better, or easier in the future and what people do to make themselves happy.
Media Sandbox Commissions announced
January 18, 2008
Posted by Clare in: Technology | Funding | bristol | pervasive | Add a commentThe six Media Sandbox commissions are announced today. Below is the list of companies from across the South West who we will be working with over the next three months on pervasive media R&D projects. The awards went to:
Ani-Mates | HMC Interactive and Aardman
Storytelling through augmentation of space and location
Harmonize | Licorice Film
A site-specific collaborative team game exploring behavioural dynamics of team play across physical and virtual worlds.
Happy Town | BDH and Plot London
Exploring how pervasive media might support us as creatures that seek happiness.
Happy Packages | Thought Pie
Delivering a smile to Bristol's media users.
Power To The People | Altern8
Creating a way for installations in public places to be controlled by the public themselves.
Swarm | Simon Evans and Simon Johnson
A tool-kit to enable groups of individuals to use the power of their collective creativity
Read more at http://www.mediasandbox.co.uk/2008-commissions/
Dorkbot returns
October 17, 2007
Posted by Clare in: Events | Ideas | Technology | Add a commentDorkbot returned after the summer break last night, with a new focus on workshop-led presentations.
First up was Null Hypothesis who gave a whistle stop tour of some new (and slightly left field) science and technology, including Motorola’s air freshener dispensing phone handset and the dressing room mirror that sends MMS pictures of you trying on clothes to a friend for an honest opinion.
Null Hypothesis was set up by three Bristol university PhD students to poke fun at the world of science and technology and challenge the myths often created by inaccurate scientific reporting. Originally set up as a journal, a meeting with Dragon’s Den encouraged them to set up a website and they now have global reach, a column in The Daily Telegraph and are writing a book. Read more unlikely science at the site.
Next up was John Honniball on Microcontrollers. Offering an overview of the many things microcontrollers enable you to make (from synthesizers to robots), dorkbotters were invited to design and programme a new pattern for John's LED wand. View photos.
Unusual Common Ground
October 9, 2007
Posted by Clare in: Watershed | Technology | Evaluation | Add a commentUnusual Common ground, a report on the Watershed/HP Labs relationship, has been published by HP Labs this week. The paper, by Clare Reddington, Erik Geelhoed and David Drake, updates Under Blue Skies: The Watershed/HP Labs Partnership which was written by David Drake in November 2005.
Watershed and Hewlett- Packard Research Laboratories Bristol have been involved in research collaborations since the mid 1990's. The report describes the benefits for The Watershed and for HP labs and lists a number of joint projects and programmes such as Mobile Bristol (the precursor of MediaScapes), SE3D, MeiGeist and CommunicationWear.
Download the full report here.
Creative Technology Network
June 15, 2007
Posted by Clare in: Events | Watershed | Innovation | Technology | Add a comment
iShed today announced the launch of the Creative Technology Network with a special event on 19 July, featuring guest speaker Michael B. Johnson of Pixar Animation Studios.
Initiated by iShed and 3C Research, the Creative Technology Network (CTN) is a new Bristol-based initiative to create a vibrant ecosystem of collaboration, innovation, research and knowledge exchange across computing, communications and the creative industries.
