Paul Gault won summer school opportunity to work with top world designers
Posted: 18/08/2009
School of Computing PhD student Paul Gault has won a place among the twenty-five at the EU IPCity 2009 summer school in Vienna, a world renowned workshop for fledgling and aspiring young designers to work alongside experts in the field of urban mixed realities.
Paul’s proposal was based on his PhD research ‘Shared Kiosk Experience & Interaction Technologies’, using data from publicly situated interfaces to produce a system to enable collaboration and shared experiences in public spaces such as city squares, railway concourses and conferences.
The implication of physical and virtual space in augmenting the built environment is a challenge. Paul’s research, firmly grounded on the principle of tackling real life issues, is another example of where design, technology and society meet.
Paul’s research is jointly funded by the NCR and the Northern Research Partnership.
For more about the summer school, please see http://ipcity.imagination.at/summerschool/