research strengths
ACID took an integrated approach to its research across all programs. The commonalities reveal ACID's research strengths:
- social participation and technology: exploring ways to facilitate collaboration, interaction and the development of social capital through technological interventions in communities
- digital perspectives of the world: helping people to better or differently understand their world through digital representations that highlight selected relationships, features or meanings
- dynamic media creation and application: enhancing creative potential through digital media content creation, manipulation and presentation by developing methods and tools with particular emphasis on automation, generation and adaptation
skills + capacities
ACID had a strong focus on design processes, research processes and evaluation strategies which was applied across all our research programs and themes.
ACID also developed and identified skills and capacities in:
- understanding social contexts
- identifying problems in interactive experiences
- designing technology-based solutions to human problems
- understanding the potential of digital technologies
- rapid development of software and hardware prototypes
- collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams
- incorporating a refined aesthetic sensibility in work
research contexts
ACID's research was characterised by an emphasis on situating research within real-world contexts including:
- electronic entertainment
- artistic practice
- technology standards formats
- community arts
- education
- business practices
- local government
- tourism
- health services
- telecommunications
- internet services
- community organisations
- master-planned communities
- digital hardware development
- cultural centres
- indigenous communities
