Alert and Ready to Defend
SpIDERStudio
Maggie Parker
School of Computing
University of Teesside
[email protected]
What is
SpIDERS?
• A multi-interdisciplinary team of computer scientists,
experimental psychologists, architects, concept
designers and artists
• Conduct research into theories of interactive content
• Experimental verification of theories
• Practical research into the nature of interactive media
applications
Particularly computer games
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Semiosphere: Interactive Digital
Environment Research Studio
• Semiosphere:
– An ecology of meaning in which differing
languages and media interact
• Yuri Lotman, a Russian semiotician
• Semiotics:
– The study of how humans make meaning out of
the world around them
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Ethos
• There are many ways of investigating the world:
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Empirical science
Qualitative methods
Art practice and other humanities based approaches
And so on
All these methods are useful,
particularly in looking at games design
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Title of PhD investigation:
Investigating and questioning the notion of
‘self identity’
in interactive virtual reality games environments
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
My area of research is to incorporate experimentation and data
evaluation to assess issues involved in facilitating a change in selfidentity by building an interactive model.
Part of my project integrates an investigation of the notion of selfidentity, and the possibilities of transmogrification.
This research project builds on my professional, working practice,
using creative methodology to facilitate making art pieces in virtual reality
interactive digital environments.
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Methodology of Artistic Research
make work
exhibit
artist search
consumer/viewer
literature search
make work
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Art
Psychology
Computer Science
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Alert and Ready to Defend
“I’ve been playing games for so long that I take some of
the circumstances of the genre for granted.
That one is always alert, ready to defend one’s life
Mirjam Eladhari
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
Building an interactive environment
experiment in manipulating users
investigate the willing suspension of disbelief
In ‘seducing’ the person to interact with the world,
would the person relate and change their personality?
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]
SpIDERStudio
Maggie Parker
School of Computing
University of Teesside
[email protected]
SpIDERStudio
Semiosphere Interactive Digital Environment Research Studio
[email protected]