The Interactive Technologies Research Group at the University of Brighton is a group of staff and students in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics with interests in designing and developing useful and usable interactive technologies, from conventional desktop systems to computer games, mobile phones and interactive television.
ITRG news
30/04/2010
More good news: Cathy Grundy has been awarded a Learning and Teaching Fellowship award to continue work on her the Vis-able web site, an online gallery that integrates visual design and usability issues for designers.
06/04/2010
Good news: the CloudBank has been awarded funding from JISC to continue development and evaluation for another three months, giving us the opportunity to carry out a full-scale evaluation with international students.
02/04/2010
A short paper on the project, based on a presentation at last year's HandHeld Learning conference, has just been published in the Spring issue of the RCETJ: http://www.rcetj.org/index.php/rcetj/issue/current
25/06/2009
Welcome to Fausto
Sainz de Salces, who is visiting us until the end of summer from the Universidad
Carlos III in Madrid.
15/06/2009
The
official start day for the CloudBank project, a JISC-sponsored
mobile collaborative system to share knowledge about local language and culture
among international students. Marcus and Sanaz will be working on this over
the next six months.
14/01/2009
Check out
Alex’s YouTube videos
of the DIY multi-touch table and applications developed from cardboard boxes
and stickybacked plastic.
07/01/2009
Welcome to
Ayumi Shiraishi, another visitor from the Tokyo
University of Agriculture and Technology, who will be with us until March. Ayumi will be contributing to experiments around mobile
language learning.
02/12/2008
Lyn is just back from a trip to the Technical University of Cacak, Serbia, for the inaugural session of the MSc ELearning MSc ELearning, funded by the Tempus programme. This involved meeting the students, who had come to Cacak from all over Serbia for an initial getting to know each other session, complemented by a video conference link for those who couldn't make it. This was an important event locally, which attracted attention from the local media, including the local TV company who broadcast interviews with several of us.
07/10/2008
We are very
pleased to welcome Keiichi Kaneko, a visitor from the Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology, who will be with us until mid-November. Keiichi and
his colleagues are working on some interesting approaches to mobile
language learning.
07/08/2008
We're very excited about a new project starting soon with local company Locomatrix
funded by the Technology Strategy Board's
Creative Industries Initiative. We'll be working with Locomatrix and developers
Future Platforms to build an
authoring kit for distributed GPS based games for mobile phones. The Locomatrix blog has some interesting
thoughts.
