SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES
SIAL Team:
Mark Burry
Arianna Wilson
Anitra Nelson
Mike Berry
Suburban Communities is an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design (ACID). We are developing tools to enable and support interactivity in communities, i.e. within households, community groups and neighbourhoods. We aim to enhance connectedness in place-based residential communities across Australia and New Zealand via information and communications technology (ICT). This aim will be realised through practical research activities and publications.
This three-year project started in October 2005 and incorporates researchers from a range of social science, design, technical and engineering sciences who are located at five universities in four Australian states and one university in New Zealand: Murdoch University, Queensland University of Technology, RMIT University, University of Queensland, the University of Technology Sydney and the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) hosted at the University of Canterbury.
The Suburban Communities project is distinguished by its interdisciplinary nature, its use of real-life laboratories, test-bed communities, within which researchers will monitor ICT trends and opportunities and intervene to develop and conduct trials of ICT tools to satisfy identified community and residential needs. Our research explores the benefits and limitations of ICT in assisting people to act in various ways in their everyday work and social life.
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