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Interactive spaces, creativity, and project organized studies.

Space, movement and visualization are three keywords in a report concluding the pilot project RUC Digital Group Room (working title) from 2014-2016. The report “Interaktive grupperum: Kreativitet og kompleksitet i projektstudier,” is written in Danish, but early in the project an English video was produced with the aim to visualize some of the thoughts and ideas of the project (see below).

A prototype of a RUC digital group room was developed in 2014 and it was discussed at workshops with university students from disciplines across faculties (computer science, performance design, communication studies, history, philosophy).

In the early video as mentioned above we imagined what a digital group room at Roskilde University might look like – yet changes have been the outcome of ongoing discussions with students. Even if produced at an early stage of the project the video still visualizes our early thoughts and ideas and some of these main ideas still hold true.

Take a look at the video: Digital Grouproom @ RUC – TAKE 2 from Ates Gursimsek on Vimeo.

Images from the early video:

Images from discussions in and about the prototype:

Video: The gigantic and interactive Book

Take a look at this video to see the gigantic and interactive book developed in ExLab RUC and listen to the background story as told by the researchers who developed the idea and the installation in collaboration with programmers and designers in the lab.

Project: Investigating Immersion – A 3D game

v/ Specialestuderende Morten Brandrup, Mads H. Jørgensen, Steffen Thorlund

With Experience Lab as the physical foundation for creating experiences, we are working with the Unity 3D graphics engine to create an engaging immersive gaming experience. We aim to develop a game that utilizes each of the available technologies that Experience Lab consists of, and to use these technologies to maximize the immersion of the gaming experience.Up until now, we’ve used the computer game Unreal Tournament(1), and special software developed by Public VR(2) called CaveUT, to make a quick and easy demonstration of some of the capabilities of ExperienceLab’s cylindrical screen.

What we yet have to figure out in Unity is how to display a single game on multiple screens in order to be surrounded by the game world. Secondly we will make use of gesture tracking, to use body movements to control the game. As of today computer games are still solo experiences in terms of viewpoint. Each player in a multiplayer game interacts from his or hers own screen. In Experience Lab we have the option to place two or more players in the same game environment and cooperate on the same screen.

1 Unreal Tournament is trademark of Epic Games, Inc.

2 Is a non-profit organization dedicated to research in virtual reality for education. Our contact: Dr. Jeffrey Jacobson, Ph.D., Director PublicVR, jeff@publicvr.org,http://publicvr.org/html/about.html

Project: The Viking ship Havhingsten – an expedition to Dublin

v/ Nikolai Møbius, Nikolas Padfield, Morten Brandrup, Mads H. Jørgensen, Steffen Thorlund, John Gallagher, Adrian, Torben Kjærgård, Sisse Siggaard Jensen, Dixi Louise Strand.

Havhingsten is the largest viking ship of 6 from a famous archaeologic find. The ships were sank as part of the defense of Roskilde late 1000s AD. In 2007 an exact reconstruction of the viking ship sailed from Roskilde to Dublin with a crew of 60 volunteers and back from Dublin to Roskilde in 2008. During this expedition a huge amount of data was collected and the vision of the Havhingst project is to communicate some of these data and the experience of sailing onboard a viking ship in open sea and at times in stormy weather and to do so in the 360 degrees immersive Experience Cylinder.

Det første projekt i Experience Lab blev igangsat i perioden 2010 – 2011. Det er en pilotinstallation over Vikingeskibet Havhingstens sejltur fra Roskilde til Dublin og tilbage i 2007 til 2008.

Installationen giver den museumsbesøgende en totaloplevelse af at være midt i sejladsen samt mulighed for at gå fysisk på opdagelse i de mange data, der blev indsamlet på turen.

Installationen består af et cylinderformet lærred, der følger Havhingstens rejse. Når man går rundt i oplevelsescylinderen spores positionen af sensorer, så data og personlige historier fra besætningen formidles via lyd og videoer på lærredet.

Projektet er blevet til i et samarbejde mellem Vikingeskibsmuseet i Roskilde, hvor Havhingsten er hjemhørende, og de to CBIT forskningsgrupper: Programmering, Logik og Intelligente Systemer samt Kommunikationsformer og Vidensproduktion. Fra frankrig deltager forskningslaboratoriet LIMSI-CNRSet Université Paris 11.

Teknologien er udviklet i samarbejde med Nikolaj “Dzl” Møbius fra GeekPhysical og af Nicolas Padfield of illutron. Udviklingsprojektet er støttet af RUCinnovation.Kontaktperson for projektet er professor John Gallagher. Projektdeltagerne har udarbejdet en AfsluttendeRapport-1 om projektet og filmen her på siden.

A paper that describes the development of the interactive installation is to appear in AMBIENT 2011, The First International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies October 23, 2011 to October 28, 2011 – Barcelona, Spain. Copyright IARIA 2011

Cross-media storytelling seminar, December 1 2011

Welcome to the cross-media seminar

Program:

Open publication – Free publishing – More avatar

Lokale: Biografen, CBIT bygning 42, Roskilde Universitet

Seminaret diskuterede potentialet i cross-media produktioner, herunder anvendelse af virtuelle verdener som filmværksteder i dansk cross-media produktion. Samtidigt undersøges betydningen af interaktioner og relationer i cyberspace (inklusiv virtuelle verdener).

Adjunkt Lisbeth Frølunde introducerede cross-media som begreb og rejste spørgsmål om konsekvenserne for producenter af cross-media, samt for publikum eller brugere. Med flere cases præsenteredes mangfoldigheden af medieplatforme i produktion og distribution, og de hybride genrer og virkemidler. Lisbeth anvendte dialogisk teori til at forstå, hvordan nye medier åbner for en mangfoldighed af nye slags fortællinger.

Med udgangspunkt i filmen “Min Avatar og Mig” gav Lisbeth et eksempel på hvordan en komedie kan fortælle om relationer i cyberspace, og hvordan en blanding af live optagelser og animation virker på film og publikum.

Om filmen: www.minavatarogmig.com oghttp://myavatarandme.com/

Paneldeltagere filminstruktører Bente Milton og Mikkel Stolt præsenterede deres intentioner og erfaringer med filmproduktionen, samt planer for videreførelse af filmens tema i cross-media produktioner mm. Andre paneldeltagere, der er aktive i en virtuel verden, heraf nogle fra filmholdet (fotograf Rob Gould og avatar skuespillere), deltog i en simulcast, dvs begivenhederne i cyberspace blev vist samtidig og i dialog med live panellet og publikum på RUC. Panel og diskussion var på engelsk.

Seminaret var hovedsagligt på engelsk, filmen overvejende på dansk og med engelske undertekster.

Arrangementet var en aktivitet under følgende forskningsnetværk:

Experience Lab, CBIT, RUC og Nordic Virtual Worlds Network http://nordicworlds.net/, støttet af Nordisk Innovationscenter.

Sisse 😉