New Media Students to Showcase Their Innovations Thursday Evening

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 or joecarr@maine.edu.

ORONO — Students from two University of Maine Dept. of New Media classes will present their work at a Thursday evening Idea Expo, scheduled for 6-8:30 p.m. at the Foster Student Innovation Center.  The event will include both displays and informal presentations featuring the work of students from Project Design Lab 1 classes.
Examples include video games that allow the user to control on-screen characters through body movement (without a controller), a documentary film website where th user can interact with all of the footage the film’s director shot and a presentation about how to organize peaceful protests.

More information is available online at http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=929.