The shortlisted teams presented their entries to the challenge at OzCHI in Canberra on Friday 2 December, to compete for the overall prize in the 2011 OzCHI Student Design Challenge.
All the teams did a fabulous job with presenting their projects, and our onsite jury had a tough time deciding on a ranking. Almost being a tie between two teams, these rankings brought the results from the online jury even closer together. But through aggregating the results it became clear that the first prize was claimed by the team that managed to demonstrate the most thorough design process, came up with the most original solution, and at the same time addressed a real-world problem:
The winners of the 2011 OzCHI Student Design Challenge are … team That Sentient Feeling from the University of Sydney. Watch their video entry at the end of this post.
The runners-up awards go to the teams CS:RMIT for DistractMi and orana from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati for their web browser extension.
This was the 2011 edition of the OzCHI Student Design Challenge. We will be back in 2012. Thanks again to our sponsors Telstra, HFESA, and Rosenfeld Media, to our online jury, Tim Buesing, Pedro Fernandes, Marcus Foth, Penny Hagen, and Ben Kraal, and our onsite jury, Megan Bauer (Telstra) and Cecile Paris (CSIRO).
Congratulations again to all the teams for their achievements!
The four teams that were shortlisted in the online challenge have summarised their projects in form of 2-page research papers. The papers will be published as part of the 2011 OzCHI USB proceedings. In their papers the teams describe their approach, process, and the theory that informed their solutions. The papers are available as PDFs from the links below.
Burns, P., Buttfield-Addison, P., D’Orazio, M.J., Nugent, T., Rolf, H. The Serendipity Engine. Download the PDF
Coombe, M., Hogan, P., Tan, I.S. DistractMi – Discover Yourself. Download the PDF
Minchella, L., Mitchell, M.C., Taulu, G., Weng, H., Yu, D. The Lift as Curator: A Serendipitous Design Process. Download the PDF
Toshniwal, O., Agarwal, R., Dhawan, A., Gupta, N., Saini, A. Designing Serendipitous Experience while surfing the Web. Download the PDF
Our judges were consistently impressed by the outstanding work that our contestants managed to achieve within 24 hours. It was a tough decision and close, but we only had four scholarships to give away.
The OzCHI travel scholarships towards attending the conference in Canberra in November go to:
(in alphabetical order)
Team CS::RMIT from RMIT Melbourne (Australia) for DistractMi.
Team orana from the Indian Institute of Technology (Guwahati, India) for their random place tab extension.
Team That Sentient Feeling from the University of Sydney (Australia) for their ‘Lift as curator‘ entry.
Team UTAS (a.k.a. the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy) from the University of Tasmania (Australia) for their Serendipity Engine.
These teams will be invited to write a paper about their projects and present their work at the OzCHI conference.
Congratulations to the winning teams, and to everyone for their outstanding entries. We were in particular impressed by Team Fresh Idea‘s video animation and Team NMD-NID’s thoughtful process. A huge thanks to our honoured judges, Tim Buesing, Pedro Fernandes, Marcus Foth, Penny Hagen, and Ben Kraal, as well as our supporting partners, in particular we would like to thank Telstra and Rosenfeld Media.
See you at OzCHI in November, where we will find out who the overall winner of the challenge will be.
The OzCHI 24-hour challenge has come to an end. The participating contestants impressed with an extraordinary amount of enthusiasm and outstanding creative design skills. The responses that were produced and documented in form of videos are available from the teams’ design journals.
Our honoured judges will now review the submissions and we will publish the names of the top-4 entries around Tuesday October 11th. These 4 teams will be invited to write a research paper about their submission, and receive a travel scholarship towards attending the OzCHI conference, where they will present their work.
The overall winners will be announced during the closing ceremony at OzCHI in Canberra on December 2nd.
Congratulations to all the contestants for tackling the 24-hour challenge!
Of all the entries to the second mini challenge, we were most captivated by the umbrella and its story of encounter. Uncanny how it can walk too! If there were a runners-up, it would be between the peacock, the art gallery and the box of free stuff …
These were the entries to the second mini challenge. We have been collecting them in this post to make sure we didn’t miss any. Tell us if we did miss yours!
After two short breaks in the form of mini challenges that asked for creativity and reflection, everyone got into serious ideation, which included doodles, mindstorming, and acting ideas out.
The DODians continued with unfolding further the concept of serendipity, coming to the conclusion that serendipity might be a subset of coincidences and discovering that the word has sanskrit origins – once meaning ‘dwelling place of lions’.
Several team at this stage decided to get out and walk – following Jane Jacob’s advice – exploring the campus and mountains. With the clock ticking and the challenge moving on into the second half, there were increasingly reports on serendipitous moments - happy accidents - leading to design ideas.
Team UTAS (Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy) shared a song they made for the challenge. – Now that would have made another interesting mini challenge ;). And of course, as with any 24-hour challenge, there has to be late-hour pizza to keep the brains active and the motivation up.
Now with a bit over 4 hours to go most teams seem to be already into shooting and documenting. Stay tuned.
With the first mini challenge completed and judged, it’s time for the second mini challenge! This time, we invite you to post a photo of a serendipitous encounter that you have had while working on the challenge brief, or of an object around you that led or could lead to a serendipitous encounter. This can also be a photo that you have already shared. Add a short explanation to your entry.
Post the link to your entry on Twitter using the hashtags #ozchi24 and #encounter, or add it to the comments section of this blog post.
Submission is open until 7pm AEST and the most original entry will again receive a book published by Rosenfeld Media.
These were the entries to the portrait mini challenge … It was very though as they were all so creative in their own way. But there is only one prize and therefore … the winner is Team Maya! Congratulations on winning the mini challenge and a book from our industry partner Rosenfeld Media!
