Archives 2003 - 2004
2004-2005 | 2003-2004 | 2002-2003
BNMI has been engaged in research initiatives in human-centred interface design, placing the needs of people at the centre of technology use and development. We are interested in the ways that artists and designers imagine and create with technologies and the ways that tools could enable creativity. We research participatory culture and learning.
2003 - 2004 Themes:
- Convergent content and delivery, with wireless and/or broadband delivery capabilities, including next generation games
- Collaborative creativity: methods, research applications, enabling systems and tools; collaboration in learning, culture, research, and health
- Visualization – full body immersive experiences; data visualization; collaborations between artists, designers, scientists, and mathematicians; presentation research; links between visualization and other emerging fields
- Ubiquitous, tangible, and transparent interfaces – creating rich physical interfaces between people and technologies including wireless and wearables
- Cultural, economic, and social implications of digitization
- Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural methods
- Digital archives and databases
2003 - 2004 Projects:
ABEL
The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) Project was a technology-mediated teacher professional development program funded through the CANARIE Learning Program and ABEL Partners. ABEL is designed to make optimum use of broadband technology to provide Masters level educational courses for practicing teachers. It helped to create a new model for collaborative learning and teaching that lends itself to replication and to generating significant attention in domestic and potential foreign markets.
(b)ENCART
The Banff New Media Institute became a partner of the European media group ENCART, the European Network for Cyberart, in its endeavour to create an international collaborative work environment using high bandwidth network connections. The desire of the group was to use broadband technology for interactive communication as well as transportation of huge volumes of data. ENCART includes a shared knowledge repository and a shared prototyping zone. In 2003, the BNMI hosted a Co-production research exchange program with the V_2 Institute for Unstable Media.
The Human-Centred Interface Project (HCIP)
Funded by the Alberta Science and Research Authority, the Human-Centred Interface Project (HCIP) was a research project that explored the interface between human expression and technology. The HCIP has supported a series of research projects including a streaming sauna, conversation visualization, and interactive props. HCIP explored multi-modal expression – the use of rich media and all of our senses within the new media experience. HCIP brought together the creative expertise of scientists, engineers, and artists to explore "emotional computing": new, multi-sensory ways in which narrative, emotion, interpretation, and cognition can inform the design and use of interfaces.
InterPARES 2: Experiential, Interactive, and Dynamic Records
Lead by the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), InterPARES 2 was a network research initiative looking into the authenticity of experiential, interactive, and dynamic records.
InterPARES 2 addressed issues of reliability and accuracy in addition to issues of authenticity throughout a data object’s life-cycle (from creation to permanent preservation). It focused on records produced in new digital environments and its object was records resulting from artistic, scientific, and government activities.
New Western Network
The New Western Network united researchers in the arts, social sciences, and humanities with an interest in digital culture. It explored participatory cultural models and cross-cultural exchange with an emphasis on wireless and tangible applications, collaborative systems, and visualization experiences.
National Research Council (NRC)
The Banff Centre and the National Research Council, IIT, developed a researcher in residency program that supports NRC researchers in residency at The Banff Centre. There they explore research issues in advanced visualization, 3D imaging, data representation, and intelligent agents, working with artists and designers.
Remote Advanced Community of Learners (RACOL)
BNMI has been researching the impacts of distance collaboration through this Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)-funded project led by the University of Alberta. The RACOL project was an initiative to develop an advanced broadband asynchronous/ synchronous distance education system. The heart of this pilot project was to develop a model of teaching and learning that exploited the potential of broadband networks and advanced technological capabilities. The ultimate goal of RACOL was to provide remote students with quality education that is equivalent to, or better than, that received in urban classrooms.
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