The DanceTag project is funded by Arts Council England and the AHRC, through Nesta’s Digital R&D scheme, and is a collaboration between Pavilion Dance…
Category: design for postdigital play
draft Configuring the dancer: intro
During periods of relative stability, popular entertainment and information media forms tend to be studied as conduits of stories, ideas, images, jokes, dramas. The…
Orangujam
An enchanting talk by Hanna Wirman at the Bristol Games Hub yesterday. Every time I hear Hanna speak of her research designing games for…
dancing with technology
Dancing with Technology: Mobile Pie’s Richard Wilson talks about DanceTag How game developers and a dance agency are collaborating on a playful app to…
gender gamified
From a discussion on Kotaku.com following the redesign of female soldiers in Warface for the Russian market, apparently based on a survey of Russian…
DanceTag in the wild
A moment from a playtesting / publicity event for the Dancetag project as part of the Digital Festival in Brighton. A group of women…
hybrid ontology of mobile gaming
‘Within the phenomenological framework, we can see how the mobile game-play in both urban and domestic places evokes particular kinds of embodiment, indicative of…
Nesta R&D Digital Fund: DanceTag project
More on this new project soon, and plenty of posts to follow. I’ll write up a clearer outline of what we’re doing, but here’s…
researching the dancers
As research partner on this project I will be regularly blogging on the research methods I’m using, adapting and inventing. The research will involve:…
Configuring the dancer
In the DNS / Stratus usability trials, neither machine nor user is settled / experienced / established. Consequently, the interactions are part of the…
NESTA Digital R&D bid success
This marks the start of a new project. I’m the academic research lead on a collaboration between Pavilion Dance and Mobile Pie to develop…