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    Hypervideo : interface design for collaborative documentaries : exegesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the Master of Design at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2014) Turnidge, Tim
    Hypervideo is developed in response to the collaborative mobile-mentary 24 Frames 24 Hours. Through practice-led research an online interface is designed that creates a dynamic remix of user submitted and workshop generated videos. By means of leveraging contemporary web technologies such as APIs, metadata and video databases the interface presents an interactive documentary as a way of exploring innovative possibilities of web 2.0. The interface facilitates a unique viewing experience, which encourages new ways of experiencing and inspires the creation of mobile movies. This interactive documentary film form is influenced by Soft Cinema (Manovich, 2002) and the Korsakow system (Thalhofer, 2000). The interface is developed through an iterative design process in response to the emerging significance of metadata in online viewing formats and the vertical/horizontal video design problem.
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    Contemporary approaches to live computer music : the evolution of the performer composer : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington [i.e. New Zealand School of Music] in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    (Massey University, 2013) Vallis, Owen Skipper
    This thesis examines contemporary approaches to live computer music, and the impact they have on the evolution of the composer performer. How do online resources and communities impact the design and creation of new musical interfaces used for live computer music? Can we use machine learning to augment and extend the expressive potential of a single live musician? How can these tools be integrated into ensembles of computer musicians? Given these tools, can we understand the computer musician within the traditional context of acoustic instrumentalists, or do we require new concepts and taxonomies? Lastly, how do audiences perceive and understand these new technologies, and what does this mean for the connection between musician and audience? The focus of the research presented in this dissertation examines the application of current computing technology towards furthering the field of live computer music. This field is diverse and rich, with individual live computer musicians developing custom instruments and unique modes of performance. This diversity leads to the development of new models of performance, and the evolution of established approaches to live instrumental music. This research was conducted in several parts. The first section examines how online communities are iteratively developing interfaces for computer music. Several case studies are presented as examples of how online communities are helping to drive new developments in musical interface design. This thesis also presents research into designing real-time interactive systems capable of creating a virtual model of an existing performer, that then allows the model’s output to be contextualized by a second performer’s live input. These systems allow for a solo live musician’s single action to be multiplied into many different, but contextually dependent, actions. v Additionally, this thesis looks at contemporary approaches to local networked ensembles, the concept of shared social instruments, and the ways in which the previously described research can be used in these ensembles. The primary contributions of these efforts include (1) the development of several new open-source interfaces for live computer music, and the examination of the effect that online communities have on the evolution of musical interfaces; (2) the development of a novel approach to search based interactive musical agents; (3) examining how networked music ensembles can provided new forms of shared social instruments.
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    Searchbots.net : the influence of a narrative interface on the motivational levels of user contribution to an open content search engine : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Design, Institute of Communication Design, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
    (Massey University, 2007) Zeman, Mark
    This study sets out to explore and test the application of narrative and personification to the interface design and user experience of a search engine. The motivational and collaborative aspects of a search agent narrative will be examined and tested as a technique for increasing the volume and quality of data submitted to an open-content search engine by its users.