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Among the many new opportunities that digital technologies are enabling, are an increased capacity for viewers to interact not only with program content, but with an increasingly wide array of other digital appliance. These include game stations, personal video recorders (PVR’s), computers, personal digital assistants (PDA’s), and mobile phones. Clearly the demands on television will continue to expand as further innovations in the digital frontier relentlessly advance. Engaging with this new television landscape becomes almost overwhelming for many viewers.

This project developed and explored a range of approaches to facilitating more engaging interaction between viewers and digital content. During the first stage, exhibition prototypes of a range of interface devices, including the gestural ring under development at the University of Queensland, will be built, evaluated and integrated with new navigation interfaces and interactive content formats designed at QUT. This will be facilitated across four parallel streams of activity, focusing on the different aspects of the necessary holistic solution including interface devices, navigation interfaces, content formats and evaluation.

FUNDING
Australasian CRC in Interaction Design $120K

PROJECT Collaborators

Queensland University of Technology,  Deb Polson
Murdoch University, Duane Varan
Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Gale McIndoe
University of Queensland, Margot Bereton