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
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 Garment® Knitwear Technology. Possumdown Ltd / Tapestry Knitwear Ltd in conjunction TDL
The redesign of an antenatal bonnet using Whole Garment® Knitwear Technology. Possumdown Ltd / Tapestry Knitwear Ltd in conjunction withTDL
The development of ‘the ultimate sock’ using Whole Garment® Knitwear Technology Possumdown Ltd Tapestry Knitwear Ltd in conjunction with TDL
Transformation of knitwear manufacturing processes from ‘cut and sew’ to ‘Whole Garment®’ 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
Symposia and workshops with international artists and technology developers experimenting in new technologies
3d and virtual reality workshops for staff, students and industry using Right Hemisphere Deep Server, 3D Digital Asset Management and Deep Exploration platforms and other 3D software
Development of software for a mobile content video repository
Development and performance of mobile phone applications
Motion Capture facilities for education, research and industry
Research on augmented reality systems using location based information
Interdisciplinary research on the nature of creative visualisation and visualisation of creativity
Physical computing workshops for staff, students and industry
A transdisciplinary Salon programme of specialist speakers for staff, students and industry
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.
Multimodal Research Centre
Activist Documentary in Latin America and Aotearoa New Zealand
Attention in the Age of Information Overload
Consumerism & Sustainability
Digital Art Discourse: Black Noise
German-speaking Immigrants in NZ
Horseback Riding Lessons – A Video Ethnography
Identity in Everyday Life
Interactive Gaming
Interface Discourse: Smart Systems
Multimedia Learning Objects
Patu! and its Audiences
Performance Motion Capture for 3D Animation
PR-isation in Journalism
Reincarnating Heroes
Ritualization in Social Practice: Aipan Art of India
Software Studies: Brainstorm
Workplace Practices – A Video Ethnography