The Contestants
This year 26 teams are taking on the OzCHI challenge. As part of the challenge they are asked to keep design journals, which are linked from this page. More will be posted as they come in.
Augmenting Serendipity
Pramod Kumar Verma – a one-man team and computer science graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA, interested in augmented reality and mobile HCI, computer vision and social networking.
Design journal: http://augmenting-serendipity.blogspot.com/
CS:RMIT
Lord Morgan Coombe, Ian Sergent Tan, Patrick Hogan
Design journal: http://ozchi24-csrmit.squarespace.com/
DODians
Yogesh Gupta, Kshitij Bhardwaj, Shivanku Kumar, Shubhankar Ghalot, Siddhant Yadav, Huzefa Kanchwala
A team of 5 people from DOD, IIT Guwahati, India
Design journal: http://lyfajourney.wordpress.com/
Fresh Ideas
A team from National Institute of Design, India consisting of:
Chayan Deb – an Electronics Engineer/New Media Designer
Nikhil Joshi – a RIA Developer/New Media Designer
Syed Fawaz Ahmed – a Computers Engineer/New Media Designer
Sandeep Nandi – an Animator/Graphic Designer
Design journal: http://freshideas-ozchi24.tumblr.com/
Head Machine
A team of three that has been joined by two friends to make it a five. New Media and Interaction Designers from Ahmedabad and Mumbai, India.
Swati Srivastava, Sumit Pandey, Anuradha Reddy, Siddharth Mankad, Sunil Vallu
Design journal: http://headmachine11.tumblr.com
Maya
Three Girls. Three Designers. Three Minds.
Three Individuals – Nivedita Ganjoo,Nivedita Khandekar and Sakshi Shrivastava from National Institute of Design.
Design journal: http://chi2011-maya.blogspot.com
NIDIANS
An interdisciplinary team of three students from the National Institute of Design, India:
Abhinav Mishra – Architect and New Media Design Student
Chandradip Rana – Animator and toy and Game Design Student
Kadambari Sahu – Electronics and Communication Engineer and New Media Design Student
Design journal: http://nidiansatozchi.blogspot.com/
NMD-NID (La Li Lu Le Lo)
Five students of New Media Design from National Institute of Design (Gandhinagar) India:
Suvani Suri, Nishita Gill, Simran Chopra, Harshal Karvande, Khushboo Sinha
Design blog: http://nmd-ozchi2011.tumblr.com/
Get Down
Camila Carneiro, Ine Vassøy, Brian Oko, Jess Myra (Sweden)
Design journal: http://get-down.posterous.com
orana
Omna, Rhythm, Arnita, Niyati and Astha from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.
Design journal: http://oranaozchi.wordpress.com
Team UTAS (a.k.a. the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy)
Tim Nugent (The McJones) – a second-year PhD student studying location-awareness. He is immortal.
Matthew D’Orazio (The Saboteur) – a UTAS honours graduate researching mobile navigation. He digs holes.
Patrick Burns (Mr Burns) – second-year PhD student investigating the use of technology to motivate physical activity. He loves lycra.
Harry Rolf (rofl) – second-year PhD student researching media use in social support systems. He used to be king of space.
Paris Buttfield-Addison (Blues Traveler) – PhD student researching the use and flow of information in a variety of settings. He is not a blues musician.
Design journal: http://minionsoforthodoxy.com
That Sentient Feeling
Danielle Yu, Laura Minchella, Mark C. Mitchell, Garry Taulu, Hanley Weng
5 Design Computing students from the University of Sydney, who have dabbled with projects collaborating with sound, web and animation. Their group, ‘That Sentient Feeling’, is a tribute to their very own sentient studio where they have been working on projects throughout their time at university, and represents the connection they wish to make with their audience, creating projects that enable users to think, feel and experience.
Design journal: http://thatsentientfeeling.blogspot.com/