Anthony Hutton Derry Digital Champion job opportunity
http://www.zenrec.net/job/1701
www.zenrec.net
Our client, Londonderry Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Digital Derry action team, wish to appoint a Digital Champion to promote the growing creative digital sector in the Northwest.
David Kerr
Shirley Boyle
Micheal Muir
Tuesday 1.15 04/05/2010
A USB pen with a folder showing:
An A3 sketch book showing design development sketches
Friday 5.00pm
Send me an email with the URL of your youtube movie
You can get the URL as a part of the features of Youtube if you press the share button. It should look like this:
For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppU4irRbPvs
NB: The only thing I want in the email is the link to the youtube movie.
Gavin Feeney
‘DIYmind.’
In the building trade, there are two main problems:
-Where is?
-Remember to do/get?
When asked one day by a worker ‘where is ‘x’?’ or being told ‘remember to get ‘y’?’ I decided on the concept I could develop to answer this brief. I am going to develop a product that logs these thoughts of the tradesman through voice recognition by picking up on the keywords such as where and remember. It will save the thoughts and when the worker goes to the DIY to get the products he can access the database of reminders of the day so far so no product is forgotten.
Paul Connolly
Insurance company music equipment system
Working in a band involves more than plugging in and playing music. It involves organising how to get to and from shows, selecting what equipment is needed for that show specifically, appointing someone to take care of the sound and visual aspect of the performance and one-hundred and one other things besides. At the end of the night, or indeed after a show at any hour of the day, bands have very little turnaround time to move their equipment to make way for the following band or to leave the venue.
Leaving equipment behind by accident is one of the main problems faced by a musician or group. This is often a heartbreaking, bank breaking, soul destroying affair where in 90% of cases a nefarious individual has already made off with your piece of equipment be it something as small as a set of drum sticks or as sentimental your prize 1963 Fender Stratocaster.
There should be a device put in place to remind a group to take all their equipment with them. This would contain a list of all the bands equipment as held by their insurance company and as such would greatly reduce the number of instrument thefts and bogus insurance claims from others. The product will form a contract between the musician and the insurance company.
John McGregor of the Faculty of Informatics retired earlier this year. He and I had many academic adventures including setting up the MSc Computing and Design, Magee, BSc Interactive Multimedia Design, Jordanstown and Magee.
He was an excellent partner with regard to cross faculty work.
Billy Scampton, Justin Magee, John McGregor, Anthony Hutton
When is a computer creative?
Paul McKevitt has an idea about a Creative Quarter spanning the NWRC Arts and Media Dept (on the far left), The Foyle Arts building in the middle and the ISRC building on the right. I was out sailing on saturday and took this photo from the boat.
There is a workshop for one day on the 31stwhere this idea will be discussed
http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/imagineering-quarter/creative-workshop.txt
The memory project is an ethnographic design research project. A previous post showed 5 student design briefs. Here are 4 more of the student project briefs that have been developed based on the observations, research and analysis undertaken by each student in the first 6 weeks of the project.
Aisling Moore: Brief
Long bus journeys can be exhausting. It is a good time to catch up on thoughts and to make lists. Most of the time people fall asleep. This project investigates the possibilities of placing some kind of information service on long bus journeys. A touch screen could be placed in front of your seat offering a variety of services. The service will allow a passenger to type in their destination and an alarm will go off 5 mins before arriving at that destination, allowing the passenger to wake up and gather their things. Other services may include taxi pick ups allowing you to book a taxi ready for your arrival. Wifi on buses would allow passengers to continue working on their laptops making use of wasted travel time.
Cathy Flannery - That song reminds me of?
Sometimes I listen to a song and think ‘What does that remind me of?’ or ‘Where have I heard that before?’. Maybe I heard it on a car journey with an old friend, maybe it was in the charts around the time I started university or a certain job, or an advertisement on television. Perhaps it was played at a friend’s wedding or birthday party. Whatever memory the song triggers, it always frustrates me when I can’t remember why a particular song is important to me, who it reminds me of or why it makes me feel so happy or sad.
Because of this, I have decided to design a service based on the memories evoked by music, and ways of attaching these memories to the music so you never forget them.
Michelle Browne; Walking to School
The memory of walking to school with a parent is special. It re-occurs in adult life when as a parent you walk your children to school.
It stands out in the mind as a simple act, but one that was fun and meaningful.
From this memory a few of the factors such as walking , children , safety, knowing and remembering the green cross code etc can be taken, and perhaps be developed into either a booklet or short advert for the safety of school children while walking to and from school. The product could be used as learning aid for schools, and promote road safety in young users.
Chris Mckernan Memory Pool
The main problem with the game of pool or any of the other cue sports is that it is seen as a boring pub game. This proposal will transform pool from a stale bar game into an exciting phone based interactive memory based quiz.
The new game will test the users memory. The key to the game will be the instructions that everyone can share on their phones. The game instead of being for just the two players will involve the audience who are following the game on their phones – spreading the fun.
This concept can add something new and innovative to the game. This software will be available on multiple formats such as blackberry, android, java, iphone and others.
