From HIT Lab NZ
From the Lab to the Living Room: Design for Life
The HIT Lab NZ 2006 Annual Conference will explore the frontiers of entertainment and experience technology and show how the same outstanding interaction design principles that made the iPod the best selling music player can be applied to many different domains such as business, education, medicine, engineering and the arts.
- See how high technology is moving from the lab to the living room
- Get a glimpse of the future of experience technology
- Learn how to apply effective interaction design in your organisation
Speakers:
Doug Trumbull: Academy Award winner and legendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer ,(2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner)
Chris Stapleton: Developed of entertainment experiences for companies such as Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, and Disney.
Jim Thomas: Specialist in the research, design and implementation of innovative information and scientific visualisation, multimedia and human computer interaction technology.
Workshops on:
- Interaction Design
- Next Generation Mobile Technology
- Effective Visualisation.
Conference sessions will be enhanced with hands-on technology demonstrations and an innovative networking social event.
- Venue: HIT Lab NZ, College of Engineering, University of Canterbury
- Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006
