AIMS News Category

Games Program Ranked in Top 30!

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

For the third year in a row, Miami University’s digital game studies program, part of the Armstrong Institute for Interactive Media Studies (AIMS), is recognized as one of the top in the country by The Princeton Review and GamePro magazine. The program has been named to the “Top Undergraduate Schools to Study Video Game Design” [...]

“Re-Inventing Invention: A Performance in Three Acts.”

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

http://ccdigitalpress.org/nwc/
“Re-Inventing Invention: A Performance in Three Acts.” In Debra Journet, Cheryl Ball, and Ryan Truaman, Eds, The New Work of Composing.  With Bre Garrett and Denise Landrum-Geyer. Utah State UP. 2012.

“Couch Project” by Bizzy Young

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Bizzy Young will be exhibiting the “Couch Project” (a participatory new media documentary) at the Miami University Digital Expo this Friday:http://couchproject.org/. Bizzy Young completed this project as IMS Undergraduate summer scholar

Tech Improvements and New Opportunities at CRUX

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

It’s been two and half years since we announced the opening of the Center for Research in User Experience (CRUX). Our capabilities have significantly grown in that time and we wanted to share with you what we look like today. We now have four different types of usability and eye-tracking solutions, all of which are [...]

Data Structures Course Demo

Monday, September 17th, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-2CMQYUQNM The learning outcome was to use linked lists to manage objects that are being drawn on the screen. Dr. Bo Brinkman posts these regularly on Twitter, at #274ScreenShots

ShelvAR

Monday, September 17th, 2012

Dr. Bo Brinkman’s ShelvAR project is recruiting experimental subjects for the week of September 23rd through the 29th and the 30th through the 6th. See http://shelvar.com to learn more and sign up.

“Open Call” for Essays and Art on Apps.

Friday, September 7th, 2012

For more information, visit http://www.djspooky.com/imaginaryapp

Electronic Word of Mouth

Friday, September 7th, 2012

The following article was recently accepted for publication in the European Journal of Marketing:

Jan Ahrens, James R. Coyle and Michal Ann Strahilevitz, “Electronic Word of Mouth: The Effects of Incentives on eReferrals by Senders and Receivers”

Creative Coding in C++

Friday, September 7th, 2012

Bo Brinkman’s students are working on creative coding in C++. Examples of student work will be tweeted to #274ScreenShots. Here is an example (the instructor’s project): http://yfrog.com/hw110hp

Bo Brinkman’s poster about Marshall McLuhan and Augmented Reality accepted to ISMAR 2012.

Friday, September 7th, 2012

Bo Brinkman’s poster about Marshall McLuhan and Augmented Reality accepted to ISMAR 2012.