Interactive Newsprint heads to Brazil
Researcher John Mills recently made a quick trip over to South America to present the research project at the 3rd annual Ubitec conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Drone research takes flight at the Harris Flights
Researchers from the Media Innovation Studio took to the skies this week as part of the Harris Flights project in the heart of Preston.
AeroSee drones take to sky in search and rescue scenario
Drone search and rescue research project discovers ‘missing hiker’ in 69 seconds
AeroSee prepares for ‘Drone Journalism’ test flight
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is launching a drone – AeroSee – that could save lives in the Lake District mountains. And members of the public are invited to join the live search and rescue trial operation from their desktop computers, tablet devices and mobiles.
African Community Journalism Bureaus welcome UCLan
Earlier this week, the Media Innovation Studio’s George Ogola and Paul Egglestone handed over a number of laptops to The African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC), a Nairobi-based non-governmental organisation
Media Innovation Studio hosts UCLan careers event
The Media Innovation Studio was transformed into a careers networking event this week as UCLan’s School of Journalism and Digital Communication held its My Career, Your Career day.
Interactive Newsprint presents at COST
Interactive Newsprint joined the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) network in Lisbon where the focus of activities was firmly on exploring new ways of combining print and digital.
Media Innovation Studio appears at UCLan University Court
The Media Innovation Studio was invited to UCLan’s annual University Court event this week to present the Interactive Newsprint project.
Interactive Newsprint and friends debate #digiprint at SxSW
“Print is dead! Long live print!” declares the panel description for the ‘Pitchforks and Printed Electronics’ panel at the SxSW Interactive festival.
Bespoke unboxed
Four of the five original investigators on the Bespoke project were reunited in India last week for the Unbox Festival.
Interactive Newsprint Demos in Downtown Austin
In a packed bar in downtown Austin, Rogers, Egglestone, Mills and Metcalfe from the Interactive Newsprint research team showed some of the results to hundreds of people attending the Knight, Mozilla, MIT Media Lab SXSW 2013 party. The entire team were kept busy the entire evening running demonstrations and fielding questions.
UnBox: Hands On, Minds On, Hearts On
The suburbs of Delhi played host to this year’s UnBox festival in India. The Interactive Newsprint team were delighted to join thought leaders, innovators, musicians and …
Netexplo: Interactive Newsprint is Outstanding Innovation
Netexplo, a global initiative and network of journalists, scientists and academics, has listed the Media Innovation Studio’s Interactive Newsprint as one of the world’s top 100 …
Media Innovation Studio serves up HotPot
Working with staff and students from across UCLan’s school of Journalism and Digital Communication (JDC), this week saw the Media Innovation Studio host the multimedia convergence …
Interactive Newsprint wins Telling Tales of Engagement prize
Interactive Newsprint is delighted to report that it is one of three winners of the RCUK Digital Economy’s ‘Telling Tales of Engagement’. Announced at the Digital …
Newsprint to demo at EPSRC Digital Futures
Interactive Newsprint will be appearing at the EPSRC’s Digital Futures 2012 conference in Aberdeen this week (October 22nd). The conference describes itself as a “multidisciplinary environment in which …
Interactive LEP prototyped in Preston
As the project nears its final phase of development, the Interactive Newsprint team is pulling together the various elements of the project to combine design, technology …
‘Insight Journalism’ in NYC
Take one British Theatre company. Add one American Media research LAB and a pinch of seasoning in the form of a small grant from UK funding …
#mozparty Dundee
There’s a background buzz of conversation in the bowels of the Dundee Centre for contemporary Arts. It’s accompanied by a feint whiff of hot solder and …