Current Research Projects

Environmental Sustainability

• Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City (2010 – 2012)
• Ubiquitous Computing to Bring Real-time Environmental Data into the Homes and Hands of Queensland Residents (2009 – 2011)
• The Persuasive Qualities of a Coral Reef Simulation in Reducing Domestic Energy Consumption (2009-2010)
• Sustainability at QUT (2009 – 2010)
• Fashion as a Communication Medium to Raise Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Practice (2008 – 2009)

Augmented Urban Spaces

• Understanding the Implications of Networked Social Interactions for the Design of Public Urban Spaces (2010 – 2012)
• Enhancing the Experience of People in Urban Public Places through Context-Aware Mobile Content and Services (2009 – 2011)
  • Dispo Maps – Ad hoc Location Sharing
  • Mobile Music Cloud
• Swarms in Urban Villages: New Media Design to Augment Social Networks of Residents in Inner-City Developments (2008 – 2010)
  • Science Fiction Scenarios and the Design of Interactive Urban Screens
  • Discussion in Space
  • Bluetracker
• QUT 391 Shuttle Bus Tracker (2008 – 2009)
• The Current and Potential Role of the Town Hall in 21st Century Urban Life

Urban Narratives

• Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning (2008 – 2010)
• Gasworks, Brisbane
  • The Heritage and History of Gasworks
  • Urban Futures: A Performance Based Approach to Residential Design
  • The Construction of Inner City Community Through Consumption
• Lower Mill Site, Cooroy
  • Situated Techno-practices: A case study of students’ use of narrative and new media across multi-spaces
  • The Second Life of Urban Planning
  • Restrictions and Constraints in Mobile Narratives for Place-based Community Engagement
  • Knowledge-based Precincts in Regional Towns

Completed Research Projects

New Media in the Urban Village

• Opportunities of Media and Communication Technology to Support Social Networks of Urban Residents in Mexico, South Africa, UK and Australia (2007 – 2008)
• New Media in the Urban Village: Mapping Communicative Ecologies & Socio-Economic Innovation in Emerging Inner-City Residential Developments (2006 – 2008)
  • The Effects of a New Urban Context on Health: An Investigation into the Processes Connecting People, Place, and Physical Activity
  • Designing Mobile Systems for Social Navigation in Urban Public Places
  • An Archaeological Approach to Analysing the Design and Use of a Contemporary Urban Village
  • Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul