Designing tangible objects for deeper engagement in museum environments.
The Kurio project was conducted from April 2007 to September 2008 and was funded by a grant from Canadian Heritage’s New Media Research and Development and Initiative program. The project involved researchers and stakeholders from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including interaction design, computer science, industrial design and museum studies. Kurio explored how to address issues of social engagement, play and learning for family groups in museums. We see focusing on families as an important aspect in our study, as they are by far the most common visitor type to science, history, and natural history museums. Museums themselves are story spaces where visitors create and share their understandings through engaging with the designed environment.
http://kurio.iat.sfu.ca/
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Greg Corness is a Researcher and Artist working with embodied interaction in media environments. His background in music, theatre and dance provides the basis for his research which focus on interdisciplinary improvisation, distributed cognition in performance, and methodologies for researching experience in performance. He is particularly interested in investigating performer’s intuition during improvisation and how to leverage this embodied knowledge in their interactions with autonomous computer systems. He has developed several generative sound systems as well as computer vision and tangible interfaces for use in interactive performance and installation works. He has published in the fields of electronic music and human-computer interaction and his work includes galleries installations, interactive museum exhibits and live performance in Canada and the US.
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