Amplifying Voices from the Royal Commission into Aged Care. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is a singular opportunity to reform Australian aged care and redress the marginalisation of aged care residents—a vulnerable demographic whose voices too often go unheard. Using innovative arts-based forms of storytelling, this project explores how non-traditional approaches can provide older Australians with more visibility in aged care policy debates. Combining media analysis with ....Amplifying Voices from the Royal Commission into Aged Care. The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is a singular opportunity to reform Australian aged care and redress the marginalisation of aged care residents—a vulnerable demographic whose voices too often go unheard. Using innovative arts-based forms of storytelling, this project explores how non-traditional approaches can provide older Australians with more visibility in aged care policy debates. Combining media analysis with poetic inquiry, participatory photography, citizen storytelling, and interactive art, this project amplifies the voices of residents and engages policy makers, providers, and the public in a reflexive, inclusive conversation about the past, present and future of aged care. Read moreRead less
Performative Body-Mapping (PBM) method for socialising non-humanlike robots. This project aims to transform techniques of embodiment that are central to human–robot interaction, to improve the social skills and acceptability of future robots. Robots are increasingly becoming part of our lives in the sectors of health, education, commerce and leisure. But robots’ social skills today fall far behind their functional capabilities. Performative body-mapping (PBM) aims to address this problem by inve ....Performative Body-Mapping (PBM) method for socialising non-humanlike robots. This project aims to transform techniques of embodiment that are central to human–robot interaction, to improve the social skills and acceptability of future robots. Robots are increasingly becoming part of our lives in the sectors of health, education, commerce and leisure. But robots’ social skills today fall far behind their functional capabilities. Performative body-mapping (PBM) aims to address this problem by inventing and trialling a transdisciplinary body-mapping method for socialising non-humanlike robots. Significantly, this would allow for social robots to be non-humanoid in appearance but still appealing and readable to humans, and robots to be taught to interact by using human movement expertise in an innovative, effective way.Read moreRead less
Designing digital aquatic play to foster Australians’ engagement with water. From the beach to the pool, aquatic play is key to Australians’ quality of life and advances physical, mental and social wellbeing. This project harnesses our increasing use of interactive technology (such as wearables) to develop the world’s first design theory on interactive aquatic play. The project creates and evaluates three inspirational aquatic play prototypes, advancing confidence in water skills, self-expressio ....Designing digital aquatic play to foster Australians’ engagement with water. From the beach to the pool, aquatic play is key to Australians’ quality of life and advances physical, mental and social wellbeing. This project harnesses our increasing use of interactive technology (such as wearables) to develop the world’s first design theory on interactive aquatic play. The project creates and evaluates three inspirational aquatic play prototypes, advancing confidence in water skills, self-expression through movement and employment of safe practices to enrich Australian’s physical engagement with water. Digital media developers, government interventions and wellbeing groups can use the derived design knowledge to leverage digital technology and aquatic interactivity to foster Australians’ physical engagement with water.Read moreRead less
Holobody: Advancing the Future of Mixed Reality Technologies. This project aims to advance our understanding and use of mixed reality technologies by pioneering a new approach to interaction in virtual systems that recognises, capitalises on, and expands the potential of the human body as a human-machine interface. The project expects to apply the unique, embodied methodologies of dance and movement technology, integrated with customised software, advanced visualisation and artificial intelligen ....Holobody: Advancing the Future of Mixed Reality Technologies. This project aims to advance our understanding and use of mixed reality technologies by pioneering a new approach to interaction in virtual systems that recognises, capitalises on, and expands the potential of the human body as a human-machine interface. The project expects to apply the unique, embodied methodologies of dance and movement technology, integrated with customised software, advanced visualisation and artificial intelligence, to develop next-generation principles of embodied interaction in virtual systems. Expected outcomes are improved assistive technology, new prototyping techniques for manufacturing, and improved productivity through interactive and immersive systems, benefiting Australian businesses, healthcare and the arts.Read moreRead less
The reformulation of landscape as a user-generated interactive aesthetic. This project seeks to provide Australia with an opportunity to advance its understanding of landscape and climate change by building the world's first networked landscape visualisation system.
Improvisational interfaces: developing new human-computer creativity. This project intends to introduce new methods for the design and use of creative software for both learning and professional artistic practice. Using innovative interactive techniques based on improvisation, the project seeks to significantly boost human creativity through improvisational dialogues of increasing sophistication between artists and computers. The project is designed to help create the next generation of digital ....Improvisational interfaces: developing new human-computer creativity. This project intends to introduce new methods for the design and use of creative software for both learning and professional artistic practice. Using innovative interactive techniques based on improvisation, the project seeks to significantly boost human creativity through improvisational dialogues of increasing sophistication between artists and computers. The project is designed to help create the next generation of digital arts software systems that will assist creative professionals in developing their own unique creative styles and encourage young people to develop their creative potential. These advancements would promote higher productivity and greater creativity vital to Australia's future creative industries.Read moreRead less