Digital Media students are provided with the opportunities and facilities to perform individual, original research as well as to work alongside faculty members in long-term projects. Our research areas map to the program’s focus areas, and sometimes overlap. In viewing our Projects and Labs areas, you will see a wide variety of research in the areas of Art & Technology, Civic Media, and Knowledge and Entertainment. Potential areas of focus include applications of augmented reality, video game research, digital performance, and media-based learning. You will also find projects in AI-based art, urban informations, digital activism and design cognition. The sky’s the limit.
Expressive Machinery Lab
The lab explores intersection between cognition, creativity, and computation.
Prototyping eNarratives Lab
The lab explores the future of narrative forms in the new digital medium.
Digital World and Image Group
Lab focuses on improved interactions between people with the help of digital media.
Design and Social Justice Studio
The lab examines the experiential and participatory dimensions of civic media.
The Local Data Design Lab
The lab explores design as a medium for critical reflection on the role of data.
Participatory Publics Lab
The lab group of researchers concerned with community engagement and design.
Future Feelings Lab
The lab investigates ways of feeling and knowing with biodata and technology.
Four Four Beat Lab
This lab is a STEAM-inspired maker space and digital pedagogies incubator.
Augmented Environments Lab
The lab focus is technology, design, interaction, and media when directly augmenting a user’s senses.
