InterMedia
University of Oslo
P.O. Box 1161 Blindern
NO-0318 Oslo
Norway

Ph: +47 2284 0700
Fax: +47 2284 0592
e-post@intermedia.uio.no

Research projects

Case-studies & experiments in learning & teaching object-oriented concepts. Awareness of the problem areas in the communities of Computer Science Education & Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.  Annita Fjuk
CSCL 2005 - Interactive events
Interactive Events co-chair  Anders Mørch
DesignEd: analysing the changing character of graduate design education
  Andrew Morrison
Thematic research seminars on interdisciplinarly approaches to design: Concepts & Methods, Electronic Arts, Public Space, Interface-Interaction, Research Mediation.   Andrew Morrison
Assists student teachers to develop competencies in handling didactical & ethical dilemmas in their daily school work. The learning environment is structured by multi-media rich applications in social science.  Bjørn Skaar
A multimodal blog on the creative & design processes in choreographing dance works which include documentary material.  Andrew Morrison
Staff development workshops integrating ICTs into Humanities curricula, content & pedagogy with CET at the University of Cape Town.   Andrew Morrison
InterMediaWeb
Builds and researches the collaborative design of our interdisciplinary research centre website.  Andrew Morrison
Integration of e-learning systems in two large organisations in Norway, Statoil & Visma accounting, providing extended learning opportunties in the context of work. Methods includes empirical studies of the adoption process and design of e-learning systems integrated with existing productivity tools.  Anders Mørch
Experimental design and practice-based research into multimodal, creative and research discourse. Sub-projects: Fornem, Karakuri, Tapet, Docudance, Extended+, DesignEd, Multimodal Rhetorics.   Andrew Morrison
NordiCHI-2006
Program chair for Nordisk konferanse om HCI (Menneske-maskin interaskjon)  Anders Mørch
Utvikling av kunnskap om elevers læring i IKT-rike omgivelser med vekt på samspillet mellom teknologi, faglig innhold og kollektive arbeidsformer.  Trond Eiliv Hauge
Prototype for RElatives and PAtients with learning REsources incorporated in the REcovery process.  Anne Moen
Videoanalyse
Prosjektet videreutvikler løsninger for bruk av digital video i kvalitative forskningsmetoder.   Ole Smørdal

Completed

CMC web
Interdisciplinary information system and communication design of web based mediation of strategic research programme at UiO.  Andrew Morrison
Design and use of Collaborative Telelearning Artifacts (Natural Science Studios)  Sten Ludvigsen
Adaptive design & performance of digital scenography from Extended project cross-cultural & multimediated dance work Ngirozi.  Andrew Morrison
Digital media in the mediation & documentation of cultural historical research. Linked to research on the reconstruction of the third Viking boat from the Gokstad excavation.   Andrew Morrison
An interactive video installation. The designer becomes a choreographer of possible actions the performer can carry out.   Andrew Morrison
Participatory design project exploring how wireless & mobile technologies may support coordination & communication among members in highly mobile health teams. Includes four video scenarios.   Tove Kristiansen
Locative media & mobile, wireless technologies in narrative, dramaturgy, rhetorics, art & gaming. Performativity of audiences in emerging texts, expressions & services.   Andrew Morrison
An interactive dance installation designed for movement by audiences.  Andrew Morrison

Blog

A group of researchers at InterMedia attended 25 - 27 April 2005 a research seminar at the Center for Activity Theory and Development Work Research, University of Helsinki. The seminar was a collaborative effort together with the Centre for Sociocultural and Activity Theory Research, University of Birmingham. Key contributers to the seminar were: Ritva [...]
Mon, 09 May 2005 11:56:23 +0000
"Digital storytelling on life and faith" er tittelen på et paper til Childhoods2005 som Knut Lundby har fått akseptert sammen med Birgit Hertzberg Kaare ved Institutt for medier og kommunikasjon og Eli Lea i Flimmer Film. Paperet viser til forsøk med "digitale trosfortellinger" i den norske trosopplæringsreformen. I sesjonen om 'digital storytelling' lørdag [...]
Mon, 02 May 2005 19:34:16 +0000
The first Nordic Design Research Conference will be held in Copenhagen from May 29-31st in 2005. This is an important interdisciplinary venue for design related research. InterMedia has had a full paper accepted: Morrison, A. Deacon, A. & Stadler J. 'Designs for learning about film spectatorship'. Andrew Morrison has developed the paper in conjunction with [...]
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:01:19 +0000
Jan Dolonen in collaboration with Weiqin Chen and Lars Rønning from Department of Information Science at University of Bergen has got a poster accepted at the CSCL 2005 conference in Taiwan. The poster describes the development and testing of a tool supporting social interaction in learning Object Oriented Programming. The poster has been [...]
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:46:15 +0000
Synne Skjulstad and Andrew Morrison have had an article on dynamic interfaces accepted by Computers and Composition. Due out soon! This has been a long process or finding out how to write about co-designing the BallectroWeb at InterMedia. This web focuses on video and project based research reporting and wasdeveloped Flash and XML.
Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:17:06 +0000
Anders Mørch, Jan Dolonen and Jan Eirik Nævdal have developed and integrated software agents with two educational groupware systems (TeamWave Workplace and FLE), using evolutionary prototyping and empirical-based design as development techniques. The resulting prototypes of pedagogical agents (CoPAS, SA-Agent and RuleEditor) provide learners and teachers with increasingly domain-specific support for distributed collaborative learning activities. [...]
Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:33:39 +0000
Our paper exploring how students create understandings of given tasks in relation to both a highly structured and an open-ended learning environment is now available in 'The International Journal of Educational Research'. In this paper Ingvill Rasmussen, Ingeborg Krange and Sten Ludvigsen analyse how students' understanding of tasks evolves through their activities in relation to [...]
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:48:24 +0000
As part of our MULTIMO project we are developing the Docudancing blog with Per Roar Thorsnes from KHiO. Per Roar is investigating the roles of documentary in choreographjy and making three related dance works as well as the Docudancing blog. We're researching and writing this up together. This is very much a process site so [...]
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:34:46 +0000
Over the last summer I followed the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn as it was reported online. I was interested to use this as a trajectory for an article on multimodal discourses entitled 'Inside the Rings of Saturn'. Prof. Gail Hawisher invited me to contribute to a special issue of Computers and Composition on the work [...]
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:09:35 +0000
Part of the research trip was to explore museums in Japan and Australia. We visited several museums - both in Tokyo and in Melbourne and Sydney and found quit different types and ways of managing museums. Quit a trip - surfing several continents and timee zones!! I will first tell about the museums we visited [...]
Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:06:02 +0000