Carl Smith (UK)
Director of the Learning Technology Research Centre (LTRC) and Principal Research Fellow at Ravensbourne University London
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1 April 2019, 4:15pm – 6:45pm
This master class is concerned with exploring the technological extension of the human condition through the ethical use of emerging technologies that enhance our cognitive and creative capacities.
XR (Cross or Extended Reality) is a recent and controversial umbrella term that attempts to simplify the understanding and adoption of the full range of immersive technologies that generate new forms of reality, “In the future we will see people interacting with the virtual world and real world in seamless, frictionless, and continuous ways, not bound by delineations of experience between VR, AR, and MR.”
We will explore if the term XR is useful for experience designers to help explain what they do or whether it just adds a further layer of unnecessary complexity. As we increasingly move from Human Computer Interactions that were limited to operating within a 2D flatland to spatial computing, the XR Experience Design Framework is intended to manage the seamless stacking of these dimensions and realities and their interactions. This includes curating the pre and post context of the user experience to allow the full scope of the imagination to manifest and remain intact. The XR techniques and technologies we will explore include Sensory Augmentation, Perceptual Adaption, Artificial Senses, Body Hacking and Natural Media. In the second half of the master class we will explore collaborative processes and methodologies for the design of XR interventions.
YOU WILL LEARN TO:
- Apply the XR Experience Design Framework to your own projects.
- Understand what our current imaging and sensing technologies do to our perception.
- Use technology to undo the damage caused by technology.
- Incorporate peripheral thinking into your experience designs.
- Explore how artificial senses can be used to access a greater dynamic range of reality.
- (Re)design a workable balance between digital and analogue modes of interaction.
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