The annual Multimedia Design Graduate Exhibit has come around for 2008. Being held on Wednesday the 29th October, the exhibit showcases works from our graduating students. Selected works from other courses within the program will also be on display. For more information about the Bachelor of Multimedia Design, check out the website for an overview or the study plan for more detail.
A large-scale mechanical example of Persistence Of Vision with a unique interactive twist allowing users to wirelessly upload personal messages, view RSS feeds from the web and interact via their mobile phones.
Alex Hyde & James Richards
A scavenger hunt iPhone application that uses the built in GPS and Internet capabilities of the device to allow users to participate in and create area wide scavenger hunts. The application confirms locations using the GPS data and provides clues, rules, and photographs while recording achievements. It allows users to both create and participate in scavenger hunts on the fly.
Lachlan Krautz & Matt Salmon
A unique interaction experience that combines realtime gesture recognition with audio/visual feedback to imitate an orchestra and its music. Using a multitude of physical and digital technologies, the system interprets gestures made by the user to change the digital orchestra.
Michael O'Brien
It's a music video clip set to the song Hysteria by Muse. It's a love story, a man has just come across a beautiful woman, and it was love at first sight. This video is about his extraordinary journey to be with the woman he loves. With live action footage mixed with dynamic visual effects, this story has a high level of emotion which fits perfectly to Muse's epic song, Hysteria.
Doug Wilson
We have developed an educational tool for prep school children to facilitate recognition of the sounds of letters and numbers. The tool also helps children see how two numbers are added together. The concept is to merge the physical and virtual worlds by having real tangible plastic numbers and letters that children can easily identify with and turning these into triggers of graphical animations onto a flat table surface. This table is designed so that children are able to learn from it independently at their own time and leisure.
The project explores ways in which children interact with technology and how it can be used to supplement their basic alphabet and numeracy skills by repetitive play.
Lilys Thamrin [lils96 at gmail dot com]
& Diem Nguyen [ngpdiem at gmail dot com]
Play and Speak is software that integrates voice recognition into the field of education as children and non-english background speaking students can evaluate their English recognition and pronunciation.
Elizabeth Duong & Bill Giang
An exciting opportunity to test the skills and knowledge gained over three years study by redesigning the Phoenix Environment Software's logo and marketing materials. We also took the opportunity to further explore our skills by completing an Interaction Design inquiry into the software itself.
Victoria Bansey [victoria dot bansey at gmail dot com]
& Corrine Donaldson [corrine dot donaldson at gmail dot com]
This project looks at current job seeking websites, and looks at the potential benefits of including social networking features to improve the user experience. The team has performed an interaction inquiry on the Career Hub website, and from there constructed a lightweight redesign which focuses on incorporating social networking features.
Zun Zaini, Jo Huang & Juan Pelaez Ramirez
Our project is to introduce the Asus M51SN laptop. We have created a flash based website that includes information about the Asus M51SN, a short video clip of the laptop, test runs on the laptop and some other extra information. The aim of this website redesign is to share the information about this laptop for people who are not familiar with computer technologies.
Chun-Ta Huang & Sam Wang
Our project provides the design and branding for The Mexican Bean, an a la carte Mexican restaurant. Using a modern style, as opposed to the traditional Mexican style, we created logos, business cards, menus, uniform designs, a website, and a 3D model.
Tara Einam, Pete Calnan & Jake Solomon
We are creating a Sports E-Commerce Website which is intended to provide alternate means of online shopping. This involves researching aspects of the shopping experience not yet considered in an online environment. By focusing on the interaction between users and their shopping environment, we introduce new features such as virtual shopping assistants, live news feeds and various other social aspects. The aim of such a website is to get the user involved with the sports theme, rather than be focused simply on buying.
Grzegorz Wzietek & James North
My project is an interactive online magazine, designed for the company Aussieprom.com, an online nation wide formal directory. My design interests have always been very graphic based, and my career goal is to eventually work for a high end magazine such as Vogue, Harpers Bazaar or Cosmopolitan. I've chosen to create this online magazine for my assignment so that I could experience what it's like working in my desired field, and also have appropriate designs for my portfolio.
I pitched the idea as a way to increase the sites numbers, reach more people, and create better interactivity. The existing site is very useful but also very text based - and there is nothing to suggest what each store stocked other than a few words on a page. I proposed that by using images in this interactive magazine, it would be easier to captivate the audience and achieve more click throughs for the clients. We also decided to include formal advice, and other fun things to create a magazine feeling, and give people an insight into the website. As well as the interactive magazine being a web tool, which would be emailed out to the aussieprom.com members mailing list, it would also be included on the website for people to browse, and is also becoming a physical magazine to be distributed across Australia in the 2009 Cosmopolitan magazine show bags.
Ashlee Cramb
DM-Kaedan is a death match level for the video game Unreal Tournament 3. Kaedan was a wealthy merchant who gained his fortune and notoriety through cunning deception and corporate espionage. In an ironic twist of fate, when it came to buying his dream beach front mansion, he himself was tricked into buying the property in a sector that only ever rained. After hunting down those responsible, he donated the mansion to the tournament.
Jarrad Webber
Working closely with the School of ITEE marketing manager, we are creating a promotional advertisement for the UQ Bachelor of Multimedia Design.
Fei Zhou, Lin Zhu & Qianchi Liu
Our group is designing a flash based interactive website about great deals on 3G mobiles. The site introduces popular mobile phones. Included in the production of the site is a video clip promoting the launch of the website.
Yiming Chen & Tracy Yu
The exhibit is open to the public & schools from 12pm - 4pm
If you would like to arrange a group school visit, please email mmds-exhibit@itee.uq.edu.au with some details and we will contact you ASAP.
There is an invite-only V.I.P. function in the evening.
If you have been invited to the VIP event, please make sure you email to let us know if you will be attending before the 24-10-08 - mmds-exhibit@itee.uq.edu.au
'Here' being Room 341, Sir James Foots Building [47A]
Google Map showing where the Sir James Foots building is on St Lucia Campus.
From UQ Lakes Station - Picture Trail
From Chancellors Place - Picture Trail
From the Thynne Rd parking complex, turn right out of the carpark entrance.
Follow the road along the lake, take your first right onto Staff House Rd.
Sir James Foots is the first building on your left.
Buses run regularily to the UQ St Lucia Campus
The 109 and 412 leave from Stop 16 on Adelaide St in the city (near corner of George St). Timetable [PDF] available from Translink
The 411 leaves from Stop 7 on Ann St in the city or from Stop 'A' Wickham Tce. Timetable [PDF] available from Translink
The 427, 428, 432 run through Kenmore & Indooroopilly on way to UQ St Lucia and the 414 & 415 leave from Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. Timetables [427-PDF, 414-PDF] available from Translink
The 402 leaves from the bus stop on Coronation Drive, diagonally opposite Toowong Shopping Centre. Timetable [PDF] available from Translink
The 109 will bring you into the UQ Lakes station, and the others will bring you into Chancellor's Place.
If you are unsure of the public transport options from your origin, check out the Journey Planner on Translink
If you catch the train, take the Ipswich line & get off at Toowong Station. Turn left out of the station & take the pedestrian overpass signed for UQ. Turn left out of this & walk for about 100m to the bus stop - the 402, 411 & 412 buses will then take you into Chancellor's Place on campus.
If you drive, parking is available at reasonable rates along Staff House Road (with only a short walk), the parking complex on Thynne Rd (about a 5 min walk along the lake) and Sir William Macgregor Drive (quite a bit longer walk depending on where you park).