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Level 4 DiXD student Ro Ramtohul's degree project "reculture has been featured on US tech blog WP7 Connect.
Ro's project concerns educating people about physical gestures used by different cultures, and makes use of (amongst other technologies) Windows 7 Phone and Microsoft Kinect.
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2012 - 10
Digital Interaction Design Level 3 Studios

Level 3 students have been working on a project where they were asked to conceive, design and prototype an app for a grandperson.

On the first stage of the project, every student worked individually with a specific grandperson (grandparents, parents, other relatives, etc.) trying to come up with a solution to an everyday life problem of...

As part of the Apps for Grandpeople module we explored the work of Sunni Brown and visual note-taking. You can follow in our foot steps by following the links below. As a class we took visual notes to the 'visual notetaking 101' lecture, you can see my notes in the image attatched. 

Links:
Doodling myths with Sunni Brown:...

Many major websites are blacking out today, 18th Jan 2012, in solidarity with Wikipedia, who are directly opposed to the SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) bill in the US House of Representatives, along with its "sister" US Senate PIPA (Protect IP Act) bill.
Whilst we're not...

Final year Digital Interaction Design and Product Design students held a Projects Day on 1 November 2011. Our invited guests included Tim Regan of Microsoft, user-centred innovation consultant Martin Bontoft, Chris van der Kuyl of...

Just a quick post to show myself and Calum's App working on one of the new iPod touches. It's an App based on the world renowned fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and it displays his different collections from 1994-2011. We created the app as part of a project in 2nd year DixD (1st Semester).

Our 2nd year class have completed the first part of their Screen Interface Design project.
This year we are designing for iPhone/iPad and iPod touch. We decided to use Apple's Xcode IDE as mentioned in another post.
It was a steep learning curve for the students but they have managed to get enough coding skills to prototype some...

This academic year 2011-2012, for the first time, mobile application design is included in the DIxD curriculum. We're focusing on Apple's iOS mobile devices - iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - and so are developing and designing apps using the XCode IDE. Ewan Steel is leading teaching in this area.
First out of the blocks are Level 2 who are...

Visit the Digital Interaction Degree Show 2011 website to see the work of our 2011 graduates. The varied work explores the ubiquity and diversity of digital technologies in our everyday life. The work was of an extremely high quality and beautifully presented in the exhibition space. The show was a huge success with lots of visitors and...

2011 - 16
1st/2nd Year Studio

3rd Year Exhibition

stereotype?

Each has been inspired by–and designed with–one of our grandparents, reflecting their interests, priorities and idiosyncrasies. All 14 together should put paid to any stereotype of older people and their potential relationship with digital technology.

prototype!

Although made of...