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BLAST-UP!
BLAST-UP! Is a computer game, a poem and a tribute to Vorticism, the English response to continental avant-garde provocations in the years just before the First World War. BLAST-UP! has been created to bring the spirit and ideas of Vorticism into contact with a wider audience. It also aims to extend the capacities of digital poetry, by exploring the extent of reader / user involvement in creating output and supplying input names and terms.
Conceived by Katy Price and designed, programmed and realised by Chris Joseph, BLAST-UP! is loaded with vocabulary drawn from sources in British mass culture such as Heat Magazine and the Daily Mirror.
Contact: Dr Katy Price
Website: blastup.wordpress.com
Adaptive and semantic browsing for digital images and sound
The project investigates the feasibility of applying adaptive browsing and semantic methodology to the task of browsing museum digital image archives and to produce a concept demonstrator that will provide a novel, personalised and engaging user experience for for both virtual and physical museum visitors. The system will allow a user to guide their browsing experience simply by pointing at (or touching) images of interest to them, exploring a collection through image relationships, to unearth images and the stories behind them that may otherwise remain undiscovered. For his own part of the project, Julio D'Escriván focuses on the educational aspects of browsing audio/visual resources and applying ideas derived from gaming experiences.
Funded by EEDA
Contact: Julio D'Escriván
The project investigates the feasibility of applying adaptive browsing and semantic methodology to the task of browsing museum digital image archives and to produce a concept demonstrator that will provide a novel, personalised and engaging user experience for for both virtual and physical museum visitors. The system will allow a user to guide their browsing experience simply by pointing at (or touching) images of interest to them, exploring a collection through image relationships, to unearth images and the stories behind them that may otherwise remain undiscovered. For his own part of the project, Julio D'Escriván focuses on the educational aspects of browsing audio/visual resources and applying ideas derived from gaming experiences.
Funded by EEDA
Contact: Julio D'Escriván
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