Inspired by bird formations, Andrea Lau and Andrew Vande Moere created in-formation flocking boids. It demonstrates an information visualisation method using a decentralised multi-agent system to represent time-based volatile datasets. Groups of similar data objects - in this case, exchange market stocks - will form wedge-shaped formations which reflect underlying data similarity. The visual reveals both global trends, and patterns within subsets of data.

Visualisation employs intuitive and aesthetic communication of information by visual media. Visualisation allows us to explore complex, dense, and abstract data in order to investigate patterns and eccentricities in information, and to negotiate data more easily than conventional text-driven representations permit.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

Creative modelling and simulation of aesthetic lighting for interiors and exteriors of buildings using funky forms. This poster explores a redesign for the refurbishment of the USYD Union Holme Building.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

An insight into the applications of digital media and design science research, from spatialised information sonification, generative sound design, hyper-instrument design to gestural spatial/interaction. From research conducted by Joanne Jakovich, Hong Jun Song, Sam Ferguson, and Kirsty Beilharz.

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

An insight into the applications of audio and acoustics research, from architectural acoustics to sonification. These posters cross vast fields:
- Auditory perception of room size (image, above)
- 'AirQube' sound attenuation using Quarter-wave resonators
- Auditory alerts for air traffic control consoles
- Acoustic quality of a stadium audio system (image, below)
- Acoustical measurements of the Sydney Opera House
- Opera singer vocal directivity (poster, below)
- Anechoic lining design
- Acoustic shattering of fractal diffusers.

If you understand these fascinating terms, maybe you should be studying Audio & Acoustics!! =)

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

This was a slide presentation featuring research about day light availability, sky models, solar access, overshadowing and glare, windows, and daylight in interiors and buildings.

The following is an example diagram which shows the shading plan for a skylight:

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

Monika Hoinkis has created a self-expressive folding display; it is a style-neutral wearable visualisation device that can be worn in different ways to express one's personality in real-time. A set of integrated sensors keeps track of the weareer's activity profile, which is conveyed through the aesthetic folding of successive layers of fabric.

This personal information is hidden for onlookers, but becomes understandable over time for close friends and relatives.

[Wearable visualisation, felt, eletronics]

(This entry is a part of our series on the veloCITY graduate design exhibition).

At the end of last year, we launched the VELOcity graduate design exhibition.

The works spanned all disciplines, from audio design, architecture, digital media, illumination, sustainability, urban design, design computing, to urban and regional planning. It encapsulated the newest ideas in art and technology in the graduate design programs at the University of Sydney.

In the next few entries, we'll be looking at works featured in the exhibition.

veloCITY was exhibited at the Tin Sheds Gallery 148 City Road, Chippendale. Oct 12 - Nov 4, 2006. It was curated by Joanne Jakovich, Kirsty Beilharz, Anita Lever and Warren Julian.

Imagine you were watching a basketball game, and knew which team was winning, how many fouls each player made, and how much time was left on the clock...all without taking your eyes off the players.

This is what Mitch Page, one of our Design Computing Honours students (2006) has done for his final project. Mitch has created 'TeamAwear', a next-generation basketball jersey which allows players to 'wear their performance' in order to enhance the awareness of information during game-play for all stakeholders, including: athletes, coaches, referees, and spectators.

TeamAwear is a novel type of wearable display. Wearable displays are a class of display that is worn on the body, and used to communicate information about the wearer to the surrounding public. The TeamAwear system aims to actively enhance the awareness and understanding of a team sport for its stakeholders, including athletes, referees, coaches and spectators, without negatively disturbing its game-play.

Designed specifically for basketball, TeamAwear consists of four basketball jerseys that are equipped with electronic displays and small computational devices. Each jersey can be wirelessly controlled to represent game-related information sources in real-time, such as the amount of individual fouls, points, scores and time alerts.