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Upcoming project semester 2014!

Foto 03-12-2013 14 58 51Coming semester MediaLAB Amsterdam will run five exiting projects again! Below you can read more about the assigner, which researcher is involved and what the main goal of the project will be. If you have suggestions, ideas, or want to collaborate on one of these project, feel free to contact us at any time (g[dot]gootjes[at]hva[dot]nl).

Games4Therapy
Assigner: Arkin and Lectorship Games & Play
Researcher: Menno Deen
To help people between 18-24 with an early indication of psychoses, this project sets out to explore the development of a game in order to support the principle of participatory healthcare.

Transmedia Analytics
Embedded Researcher: Stefanica Bercu
Assigner: Submarine, Creative Industries Amsterdam
This project sets out to capture a variety of data points from an interactive web based documentary (The Last Hijack) and present these data in a way that allows the producers get an understanding of how audiences engage and interact with their creation, and enrich the user experience accordingly.

The future of TV
Assigner: TWC
In a world where (public) screens are omni-present and there is a vast growth in collected and shared (big) data, opportunities arise to enrich media experiences of events. This project tries to explore opportunities for connected TV to enrich experiences in the context of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Amsterdam Hackable Metropolis
Embedded Researcher: Christina Ampatzidou
Assigner: One Architecture and The Mobile City, in close collaboration with City SDK
Within this project the team explores the application of a new toolkit with different design strategies and come up with creative interventions that illustrate how digital media allow to organize and engage a public around local issues using sensors and location based (visual) feedback.

Education Conference
Assigner: Hogeschool van Amsterdam
For the education conference (theme: excellence) MediaLAB Amsterdam explores how students through ‘clashes’ deal with themselves and others (challenges) to figure out where their excellence lies. The results of all these ‘clashes’ will be used to develop visual content that will be displayed during the conference on the 24th of April 2014.