mnemonic art and design research
Dr. Ron Baecker (Steering Committee Member, Knowledge Media Design Network, University of Toronto), Dr. Brian Richards (Baycrest Centre, Director - Memory Link) and Mike Wu (U of T Graduate Program, Computer Science) will present in October 2006 to the OCAD Virtual Commuities Interdisciplinary Studies course, preparing students for OCAD's second year of collaborative work with memory researchers, clinicians and user-participants.
The OCAD Virtual Communities course, headed by Judith Doyle and Martha Ladly, completed a series of prototypes for memory and orientation devices for amnesia, contributing to groundbreaking research by Dr. Ron Baecker (U of T), Dr. Brian Richards and Mike Wu. This year (2006-2007) the presenters at OCAD include Dr. Ron Baecker and Dr. Guy Proulx, the internationally-renown expert on memory, and Director of Psychology at Baycrest.
The internationally-renown researchers of the Toronto Memory Group are
developing hand-held computer tools to offset devastating memory problems
that brain-injured people experience. Researchers at the Ontario College of Art and Design, including students in Virtual Communities, bring a broad spectrum of art and design skills. Supervised by project designers and psychologists, using data from clinical workers and user-participants, student teams research and develop visualization and narrative features for assistive memory aids.
warmware : mnemonic art and design research (Principal Investigator : Judith Doyle) focuses on art in emotional representation and meaning-creation for memory scaffolds.
DETAILED PRESENTATION ON THIS RESEARCH BY JUDITH DOYLE
