Background

Digital and immersive technologies provide a myriad of ways to surprise and delight audiences and customers. Allowing audiences and customers to interact with an experience – for example through lights and animation, sound, or tactile elements – can transform a theatre performance, artistic installation, or shopping trip into something playful, highly personal, and unforgettable.

Session Overview

During three sequential Focus sessions, our LEADD:NG experts will deliver a crash-course in interactive light, sound and movement technologies, help you generate ideas for your own interactive experience, and then work with you to hone these ideas into workable and cost-effective concepts.

We will cover key essential technical aspects for interactive installations, including:

• Hardware/software platforms like Arduino, Bare Conductive, Raspberry Pi and Bela

• Capabilities and limitations of input sensors for touch, voice and movement

• Interactive outputs and actuators including sound, light, graphics and servo motors

• Wireless communication between components of interactive installations

• Preparing interactive installations for remote audiences

Technical considerations will be situated against real-world examples of innovative, successful installations.

We will then move to an ideation dialogue, exploring ideas for installations that can appeal to your customers and audiences. We will support you to create initial sketches of concepts, including identifying the most appropriate hardware and software platform, inputs, outputs and materials. We will help you develop these sketches into detailed designs for installations.

Is this session right for me?

If you would like to explore interactive approaches that deepen a connection with your audiences, customers, and consumers, then our LEADD:NG experts want to collaborate with you. No prior experience with interactive technologies is required, just the desire to explore how these technologies could work for you!

We think Interactive Installations will benefit those involved in set design, dressing store fronts, curating museum and heritage collections, and could also interest other experience design professionals, e.g. in marketing and advertising. If you think interactive, immersive technologies could work for your business then we would love to hear from you! We will flexibly tailor this series of sessions to suit YOUR needs.

This is Session 1 of three sessions. We recommend also attending Session 2 and 3, and details to book are below:

• Session 2, Thursday 24th February, 12 – 4pm

• Session 3, Thursday 10th March, 12 - 4pm

Please note this is an online event held via MS Teams and joining instructions will be emailed prior to the event.

Not enrolled on the LEADD:NG programme yet? Please register for the event and you will be sent an enrolment form that must be completed before attending the sessions.

State Aid

This event is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund 2014-2020. This event is classed as State Aid under De Minimis to participating businesses, but is delivered completely free of charge.

Contact

If you have any questions about the event or the programme, please contact leaddng@nottingham.ac.uk.

Privacy Information

Your consent to sharing data with the University of Nottingham and the guest speakers is required to be able to attend this event. Your data will also be used to comply with the reporting and monitoring requirements of our funders, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).