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IOCT Projects

The IOCT aims to provide a risk-free environment for creative thinking and frutitful encounters. All IOCT research projects involve cross-disciplinary working between at least two partners from different areas. Projects may be funded from a range of sources, including research councils, government agencies and industry. The IOCT main lab has extensive facilities and equipment and full technical support.

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Creating - Imagining - Researching

IOCT: Research Project Clusters

 

Roll mouse over title for a brief summary and click link for the project website. Italics = completed projects, Plain Text = active projects.

Artificial Intelligence in Action

Aibo Stories Flying Robots HaRT Animatron RoboViz
Social Cognition Virtual Romans    
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Creative Writing

A Million Penguins Art Writing as Hybrid Practise Creative Writing and eLearning Digital Writer-in-Residence
Emerging African Writers and the Internet Flight Paths LED Writing:
Information
First Lines
I Remember...		 Nature Metaphors in Virtual Landscapes
New Media Stories NRG Tags Network Narrative  
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Cultural Contexts

Creative Coffee Club Digital Media Centre IOCT Journal & Conference IOCT Salon
IOCT Visiting Professors IOCT Social Network Theory, Culture and Technology Reading Group Transliteracy Research
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Enhancing Wellbeing

Creative Sound HoloPatient Life-Space: A Digital Sensory Room for Hospices Palliative Care Needs Survey
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Mapping Creative Processes

Creative Catalyst Workshops CREEM (Creativity East Midlands) DMU Creative Mapping Human Creativity
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Performance and Production

Creative Connections H4 Lord Mayor of Leicester (Holograms) Machinima
Multidisciplinary Performance Multimedia Controllers for Live Performance Real Time Generation of Commentary for Simulated Sports Stereo Bodies
Transparent Screen Choreography      
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Pervasive Media

The Third Woman Songlines Soundlines Crow Road
Ambience E-merge    
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Sonic Art and Soundscapes

Audiotheque ElectroAcoustic Resource Site II Electromagnetic Radiation Sound Map Internet Orchestra
Sounding Underground: linking urban soundscapes via commuters' memories New Contexts for Radio Art Random Round Sound.Son
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State-of-the-Art Technologies

Bartleby CSAGE (Access Grid) The Curious Listener De Montfort Creativity Assistant
Gaze Based Interaction with Online Virtual Worlds IOCT Island (Second Life) Online New Media Centre Development Social Media Classroom
Timeslice Usability Lab    
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Leicester Digital Mapping: Project Cluster Website

3D Leicester Amplified Leicester Community Maps Creative Clusters
DARBS agent-based framework Data Interoperability Emotion Map Highfields Remembered
Palimpsests of Time Songlines Virtual Romans Visualising Leicester
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For further information about IOCT projects, please contact:
Dr Tracy Harwood, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH.
Tel: (+44) 0116 207 8028
Email: tharwood [at] dmu.ac.uk
www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk