In early 2008, Jonas Löwgren of Medea worked with IKEA IT to design the Pinpoint visualization. Briefly, it was intended to help knowledge workers in large organizations find answers to specific questions and to grow their professional networks, by presenting possibly unknown colleagues with interests and competencies similar to your own.
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This is a collection of new media work performed by Malmö University researchers and designers during 1998-2008, forming part of the basis for developing Medea.
The projects featured in the showreel (each introduced in a separate post below) are
Avatopia (2001-03)
Malmöfestivalen (2008)
Musikhjälpen (2008)
KLIV (2000-02)
Participatory game design (2006)
Agent O (2006)
Future News Media (1998-2000)
My News and Sports My Way […]
Researchers and designers from Malmö University, Interactive Institute and Animationens Hus (Eksjö) worked with Swedish Television (national public-service broadcaster) around the topic of young teenagers who want to change society.
The work focused on creating a participatory design process, where some 30 teenagers from southern Sweden took part in creating a crossmedia platform for communicating, socializing […]
Malmöfestivalen is a one-week street festival held every year in mid-August in Malmö. In 2008, Inkonst worked with researchers and designers at Malmö University and with TAT to create a multi-perspective view of the festival by facilitating and collecting video blogs.
Six “reporters” were chosen and equipped with cellphone video broadcast technology, and their impressions and […]
Musikhjälpen is a public service format originating in the Netherlands and aiming at raising funds for refugees shortly before Christmas by offering the audience the opportunity to pay for a song request. The first Musikhjälpen in Sweden was held in December 2008 as a collaboration between Sveriges Radio, Sveriges Television and Radiohjälpen. Radio hosts spent […]
Sharing and developing practical knowing is a challenge in any organization, and intensive care units in hospitals are no exceptions in this regard.
Malmö University researchers initiated and facilitated a participatory design process around this challenge together with intensive care staff at Malmö University Hospital. The final solution was based on locally produced instruction videos to […]
Why do people engage in social activities around games? Can gamers and gaming communities be seen as resources in game design and innovation? What would such design processes be like, and how could we create platforms for collaboration between gamers and developers?
Work in the area was initiated through a study of a gamer subculture focusing […]
A pervasive learning game for junior high school students, based on the Environmental Detective game from the MIT Teacher Education program.
Key learning ideas are to integrate the game storyline in the physical world and to place the game in a larger pedagogical context of debriefing and reflection. The game was subsequently developed in a […]
In collaboration with a range of media producers and researchers, Malmö University researchers set out to explore what the interactive media would mean to the media industry and its audiences.
The project found, among other things, that citizen journalism in blog-like formats would have to be taken seriously. Moreover, we claimed based on design experiments and […]
Based on the experience from Future News Media and other projects, Malmö University researchers joined an international consortium of fifteen high-ranking academic and industrial partners to look closer into future directions in media production.
Malmö University focused on the production and consumption of news and sports, and developed a suite of production tools to deliver shapeshifting […]