RESEARCH

The Creative Industries Research Institute comprise the research clusters shown below, and has a close affiliation with several other AUT Institutes. Besides these core research centre, CIRI also has a team of individual researchers and specialists working in a wide variety of areas related to the creative industries.

Listed below is a selection of the research projects that we are currently involved with, which will give a general idea of the variety of research projects that we are involved with. Note that this section will be updated regularly, so please visit often to see what's new...

PROJECTS

Pacific Media Centre

• Pacific Journalism Review
  www.pjreview.info
• Pacific Media Watch
  www.pmw.c2o.org
• Book Project: South Pacific Islands Communication: Local & Regional Perspectives
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/publications.shtml
• Book project: Media and development in the South Pacific
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/publications.shtml
• Kanak mining and media research project
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/niusbeat/071012_kanak.shtml
• National NZ journalism survey project
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/niusbeat/071009_journ.shtml
• Ngatihine indigenous land and the media project
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/niusbeat/070819_photographer.shtml
• Research consultancy as part of global survey of international media freedom (Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Solomon islands and Tonga)
  www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=16
• Other research and funding policies
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/research.shtml
• Research team
  www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/contact.shtml

Centre for Rapid Product Development

• Research into the Rapid Prototyping as Design methodology
  
• Effects of CAD, technology and "inclusive development" on PD cycle
  
• Tools for better managing innovation and creativity at the fuzzy front-end of NPD projects
  
• Action based research through Industry Rapid Product Development Projects
  
• Predictive Health Systems for home health monitoring
  
• Regenerative computing
  
• Curved layer Rapid Prototyping Project
  
• Two-pot Rapid Prototyping Project
  
• User Centered Design research
  
• Healthworks free software for home health management
  
• InnovationWorks II software for managing innovation during the fuzzy front-end part of the project
  
• OASIS: Design Tools Online
  

Textile & Design Lab

• Smart textiles for health
  
• The development of a merino/possum knee support using Whole GarmentŪ Knitwear Technology. Possumdown Ltd / Tapestry Knitwear Ltd in conjunction TDL
  
• The redesign of an antenatal bonnet using Whole GarmentŪ Knitwear Technology. Possumdown Ltd / Tapestry Knitwear Ltd in conjunction withTDL
  
• The development of 'the ultimate sock' using Whole GarmentŪ Knitwear Technology Possumdown Ltd Tapestry Knitwear Ltd in conjunction with TDL
  
• Transformation of knitwear manufacturing processes from 'cut and sew' to 'Whole GarmentŪ' Technology.
  
• Using CAD and on demand garment printing technologies to improve capacity and enhance design, product differentiation and marketability across an apparel and textile range. Miranda Brown Ltd and TDL
  
• The digital carpet, digital couch: Robert Wreisnik
  

Co-Lab

• Bluetooth blogging software application and Bluetooth environment configuration
  
• Mobile phone based virtual gallery/information/interactive kit for Museum and Gallery Industry
  
• Usability testing facility
  

Performance Research Centre

• Survey of work and attitudes amongst New Zealand Actors and Performers.
  
• Research into New Zealand cultural identities as fundamentally performative and the part played by local and global media and culture in that process
  
• Research into the use of dramaturgical prototypes for computer game development
  
• Collaborative work with Professor Robert Burnett of Karlstad University in Sweden on the comparative differences in the reception of the Pop Idol format in Sweden and New Zealand.