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 Effectiveness of Comparative (Eco-) Feedback on Domestic Energy Consumption (2009-2010)
• Paper and Print Reduction Strategies through Persuasive Technology (2009 – 2010)
• Fashion as a Communication Medium to Raise Environmental Awareness and Sustainable Practice (2008 – 2009)

Augmented Urban Spaces

• Sapporo World Window (2010 – 2011)
• Making things sense: Urban sensing and physical computing at The Edge (2010 – 2011)
• Understanding the Implications of Networked Social Interactions for the Design of Public Urban Spaces (2010 – 2012)
• Thinking Inside the Square: Facilitating Intercultural Citizenship in Civic Spaces with New Media (2010)
• Influencing the Experience of People in Urban Public Places through Mobile Mediated Interactions (2009 – 2011)
  • Dispo Maps – Ad hoc Location Sharing
  • Capital Music
  • PlaceTagz
• Swarms in Urban Villages: New Media Design to Augment Social Networks of Residents in Inner-City Developments (2008 – 2010)
  • FixVegas iPhone Application
  • Science Fiction Scenarios and the Design of Interactive Urban Screens
  • Discussions in Space
  • Bluetracker
• QUT 391 Shuttle Bus Tracker (2008 – 2009)

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
  • School-community engagement: a critical approach to involving young people in urban planning
  • 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
  • CityFlocks: Designing Mobile Systems for Social Navigation in Urban Public Places
  • HistoryLines: Visualising a Residential Community’s Migrational History, Memory and Shared Experiences
  • An Archaeological Approach to Analysing the Design and Use of a Contemporary Urban Village
  • Playpolis: Transyouth and Urban Networking in Seoul