Titulo Estágio
The Imagination Engine
Local do Estágio
Laboratório de Sistemas de Informação (HCI)
Enquadramento
:The Imagination Engine:
"Into a day break miraculously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts my ancestors gave.
I am the hope and the dream of the slave.
And so I rise
I rise
I rise.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
poem by Maya Angelou
The most powerful reality engine is the human imagination.
What does it feed on? How does it play?
How can we make advantage of our imagination?
Can you drive your engine somewhere you want?
If you let go, do you share where it takes you?
Could we share our imagination? Make it a collective?
Can we build shared imagination engines? How?
Objetivo
This is a Science through Art research agenda; it demands a sharp, insatiable, persistent but open mind. Do you have one of those?
The main purpose is to design interactive media artworks to address abd help clarify some of the questions around the main theme: How does interactive media influence imagination?
The main objective is to design/prototype one or more interactive works that could help make some progress towards this research agenda, enabling the study of how people interact with and interpret the artifacts. Along this route we will study design research methods and their adequacy for the purpose.
(Examples of Interactive Media Works at art-chi.org)
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 1
We will adopt a "Research through Design", monthly time-boxed, approach, based on the following activity cycle:
A1: read a lot
A2: design+prototype quickly
A3: experiment more
A4: listen, observe people interact
A5: document and reflect, a lot
A6: write what you think
A7: go back to A1
Plano de Trabalhos - Semestre 2
We will adopt a "Research through Design", monthly time-boxed, approach, based on the following activity cycle:
A1: read a lot
A2: design+prototype quickly
A3: experiment more
A4: listen, observe people interact
A5: document and reflect, a lot
A6: write what you think
A7: go back to A1
Condições
Challenging lab environment, guidance and technical support, plus any materials needed that we can pay for.
Observações
Additional requirements:
Interest in Research (+good academic record).
Undeterred availability (no pending courses).
Technical capacity to prototype.
Orientador
Licinio Roque
lir@dei.uc.pt 📩