Category: research
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ii. an autoethnography of Pokémon Go – beginnings
Pokémon Go is an augmented reality (AR) locative data application with a virtual and ludic interface connecting mobile device users to a universe filled with friendly monsters. The game functions like a magical talisman revealing hidden creatures in the everyday environments of our networked connected world. Released in July 2016 on the iOS and Android…
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i. autoethnography of objects
Autoethnography uses narrativised experience in order to examine, interpret and explain cultural experiences and practices (Adams, Holman Jones and Ellis 2015): “Autoethnography is an approach to research and writing that seeks to describe and systematically analyze personal experience in order to understand cultural experience.” (Ellis, Adams and Bochner 2011: np). Autoethnographic researchers describe and analyse…
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An invitation to Pokémon Go players in Wollongong and the Illawarra.
We are a small team of researchers at Wollongong Uni seeking participants for a study of Pokémon Go players. Now the hype has settled down, we want to talk to regular players about their experiences using the app in the local region. The study has three parts, an initial interview, a walk-along session where we…
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Two colleagues from the University of Wollongong Library, Michael Organ and Rebecca Daly, will be presenting our peer-reviewed paper on the virtual Yellow House pilot project at the VALA2016 conference this week in Melbourne. Owen Godfrey (@Cider3dPrinter) put together these two short videos to give a quick demonstration of the simulation and how it looks on screen…
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The University of Wollongong Yellow House Virtual Reality Project
Michael Organ, Rebecca Daly, Neil Cairns from the University of Wollongong, Ted Mitew, myself and others in Graphics Design, History, Media and Politics disciplines have been collaborating on a VR project, for which we recently submitted an OLT seeding grant. Although we missed out we are intending to go forward with the project and seek the…
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ecologies and networks
An ecology is a study of interactions and relations among organisms and their environment (Bennett 2010). An ecology is a co-presence of objects in a shared arrangement of space and time. A network, defined by Kadushin (p14 Loc 382), is a set of objects (nodes) and a description of relations between them. A network is…
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Check out Refractory a Journal of Entertainment Media, Volume 25, 2015 Themed Issue: Eye-Tracking the Moving Image Guest Edited by Sean Redmond & Craig Batty ‘In a landmark special edition of Refractory, guest editors Sean Redmond and Craig Batty draw together articles that examine – from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives – how eye tracking can be employed to…
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#libspill – a visual analysis of political hashtag use
The following is a visual analysis of the use of the political hashtag #libspill in the hours prior, during and after the leadership vote, which retained Australia’s 28th Prime Minister as the leader of the Liberal party. For those readers, like myself, who maintain only a general interest in Australian politics and do not participate…
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persona: a CFP
In the contemporary moment where aspects of our lives are rendered visible for display, circulation and exchange via our involvement in online cultures, investigating the concept of persona and the production of the networked self is critical to understanding the patterns and flows of everyday and extraordinary public identities. Persona is usually perceived as a…
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it’s alive, alive I tell you! ALIVE!
So I didn’t quite make it to the lush Deakin city centre offices today for the launch of the Pozible and Deakin crowdfunding research collaboration. Instead I got to nurse Miss6 through a My Litte Pony marathon while she coughed up a lung or two (at least I found this…) The PlayCache project is now…
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