Mixed Reality Platforms (50%)

This is a new module delivered by chriss speed. This new project will 'involve students working together in small groups, participants will design collaborative projects that share mixed reality platforms combining both physical (non-digital) and virtual (digital) materials........

....The Plan:

Students will be asked to work on mobile platforms: iPod, Phone, PDA etc. They will be asked to develop content for their own devices or the CEPPL kit consisting of 10 HP iPaqs and 10 Video iPods.

Students will be introduced to 8 themes and locations, and be asked to stand next to their choice in groups of no more than 4.

The locations and themes are intended to guide the students toward a dialogue with a space through a particular form of inquiry and interaction. Students are expected to stick to this subject and develop work in response to it. Work initiated is individual but should be discussed openly and can form part of a larger project around the same theme/space.

Students will be expected to explore interactive / spatial experiences through the use of Shotcode, RSS, GPS, Bluetooth, audio / video playlists, streaming media, Push and Pull media from the web, images, RFID tagging.

Students will then be organised into tutorial sessions across each Thursday so that Chris can talk to each group and member in depth.

An extra team will be asked to develop a small curatorial group that will organise a show of the works, including website, press material and communications to frame, attract and guide visitors to experiencing all of the other works.

Early on during the option a small workshop will be offered on the Hewlett Packard MediaScape Toolkit which simply allows users to construct GPS hotspots which trigger media on iPAQs; sound or image. Students will be encouraged to make full use of the Toolkits functionality including: timebased audio experiences, connection to the web for retrieving dynamic data, image complements, and Bluetooth / RF-ID location tagging.

The 6 week project will culminate in a ‘show’ to demonstrate the students achievements. "

(project Overview)