Category: Projects (Page 4 of 4)

Featured Project: Flint, Interactive Talking Book

Flint is a concept for an interactive talking book that was created by Silvia, Kaia, Adam & Katie for their Digital Storytelling Coursework.  The project is (loosely!) based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Tinderbox.  The team produced a comprehensive range of concept materials to help visualise their project.   As well as their pitch video, you can see here an interactivity map, various concept designs and plans to include Braille to make the project more accessible.   They even managed to find an abandoned wild west town, right here in Edinburgh!

Flint Concept Book Cover

 Flint Interactivity Map

Flint Concept Book Wild West mood boardFlint Concept Book Braille example

This work was created for Digital Storytelling, one of the year 3 modules on the Digital Media and Interaction Design course.  The module is run  by Dr. Tom Flint and Fiona Stewart.  Look out for more great work from our students soon.

Many thanks to the team for allowing us to share their work.

Featured Project: Blending spaces in New York

 

Our year 3 students Mat and Alison have been working with Dr. Tom Flint at Farmingdale College in New York State.  They’ve worked with students there to create an exhibition that blends art and technology with interesting spaces focussed around the  “Highline”.  Mat and Alison received funding from our mobility fund to enable them to travel and build on what they are learning at Edinburgh Napier.  Here they are demonstrating some Augmented Reality technology to the group. You can follow their progress on their blog https://blendedspaces.tumblr.com/ and on Tom’s Twitter account – @tomflint

Digital Media intern Wilf captures graduation excitement.

We’re very proud of third year Digital Media student Wilf Magnussen who is currently on placement with the Edinburgh Napier University marketing team.  Here’s the video he shot last week to capture the excitement of graduation.

Wilf says “I hadn’t shot an event before so it was an intense learning experience,  I worked with Cecilia from marketing and we planned carefully before shooting and got the video ready to share in two days”  “It was hard work, but good fun”.

Look out for more content from the DMID interns working with the marketing team soon.

Eye tracking research project kick starts Gabriele’s UX career.

Interactive Media Design student Gabriele Maffoni has been working as a research assistant for Dr. Laura Muir for the last few months.  They’ve been using our state of the art User Experience lab, The Sensorium, to capture eye tracking data for a research project which aims to improve facial recognition for security systems  by analysing patterns in human behaviour.

Gabriele says ” I was given the opportunity to work in the Sensorium Lab and to be research assistant on a project that involves eye tracking. I have an active role in the research and I am learning skills that will be useful in my future dream job (UX Designer), as well as gaining knowledge about topics that seemed unrelated to me. Turns out, they are!”

They are seen here at the Edinburgh Napier University research conference, sharing the findings so far.  Gabriele is now spending the summer undertaking an internship in a User Experience company in Italy – the perfect opportunity to  put his new skills to the test before returning for fourth year.

You can follow Dr. Laura Muir (@ilauramuir) on twitter.

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