Jeffrey T.K.V. Koh
Jeffrey has spent most of his life so far in Toronto, Canada but has managed to live, work and study in Zurich, London, Rotterdam, Berlin, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo.
He is a trans-disciplinary experiential designer who has worked on catwalk and fashion show designs for PRADA and Miu Miu, advertising and gallery curation for KesselsKramer, and architecture and exhibition designs for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas.
Jeffrey is Co-Founder of Cliquefund. Cliquefund is a mobile, community patronage platform for socially-motivated startups. He was interviewed live on Channel News Asia in 2013 on the topic of crowdfunding. He was also featured on Digital News Asia and Tech in Asia.
As an artist, Jeffrey has exhibited in venues such as the Barbican and Southbank Centre in London, United Kingdom, for festivals such as the Singapore Design Festival, and in galleries in Munster, Berlin, Vienna, Crete and Tokyo.
As a scholar Jeffrey has performed demos, published papers and written book chapters in venues such as UBICOMP, CSCW, IEEE Haptics Symposium, SIGGRAPH, SIGDOC, ISMAR, ACM CIE, MONU Magazine and more. Jeffrey was an invited speaker at TEDx Zurich and PechaKucha, and has also spoken on panels at the ICA, The Art House Singapore, and other forums. He was also a PC member in ACE and UBICOMM, and was an invited reviewer for journals and conferences such as Leonardo, AHCI, DIS and CHI. Jeffrey has won awards for his research projects including the Creative Showcase Golden Award at ACE2010, and is a recipient of the NGS scholarship from the National University of Singapore.
In the past he studied Semiotics and Fashion Photography, and was awarded his BFA in Monumental Kunst from the Aki Academy of Art and Design (ArtEZ) in Enschede, the Netherlands and an MA in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, United Kingdom.
He earned his PhD at the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, at the National University of Singapore and was a visiting research scholar at Keio University, and visiting research scholar at NEC C&C Laboratories, both in Japan, where his research interests focus on various topics regarding organic user interfaces, robotics, tele-presence dining and experiential design. He was also previously a Department Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Crossroads (XRDS) magazine. He is a Mendeley.com Advisor and is a member of both the IEEE and ACM.
Jeffrey works at UNSW Art & Design as an Associate Lecturer, conducting research with the Creative Robotics Laboratory at the National Institute for Experimental Arts.
Supervisors: Hang Chang Chieh and Ryohei Nakatsu
He is a trans-disciplinary experiential designer who has worked on catwalk and fashion show designs for PRADA and Miu Miu, advertising and gallery curation for KesselsKramer, and architecture and exhibition designs for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas.
Jeffrey is Co-Founder of Cliquefund. Cliquefund is a mobile, community patronage platform for socially-motivated startups. He was interviewed live on Channel News Asia in 2013 on the topic of crowdfunding. He was also featured on Digital News Asia and Tech in Asia.
As an artist, Jeffrey has exhibited in venues such as the Barbican and Southbank Centre in London, United Kingdom, for festivals such as the Singapore Design Festival, and in galleries in Munster, Berlin, Vienna, Crete and Tokyo.
As a scholar Jeffrey has performed demos, published papers and written book chapters in venues such as UBICOMP, CSCW, IEEE Haptics Symposium, SIGGRAPH, SIGDOC, ISMAR, ACM CIE, MONU Magazine and more. Jeffrey was an invited speaker at TEDx Zurich and PechaKucha, and has also spoken on panels at the ICA, The Art House Singapore, and other forums. He was also a PC member in ACE and UBICOMM, and was an invited reviewer for journals and conferences such as Leonardo, AHCI, DIS and CHI. Jeffrey has won awards for his research projects including the Creative Showcase Golden Award at ACE2010, and is a recipient of the NGS scholarship from the National University of Singapore.
In the past he studied Semiotics and Fashion Photography, and was awarded his BFA in Monumental Kunst from the Aki Academy of Art and Design (ArtEZ) in Enschede, the Netherlands and an MA in Creative Practice for Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, United Kingdom.
He earned his PhD at the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, at the National University of Singapore and was a visiting research scholar at Keio University, and visiting research scholar at NEC C&C Laboratories, both in Japan, where his research interests focus on various topics regarding organic user interfaces, robotics, tele-presence dining and experiential design. He was also previously a Department Editor for the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Crossroads (XRDS) magazine. He is a Mendeley.com Advisor and is a member of both the IEEE and ACM.
Jeffrey works at UNSW Art & Design as an Associate Lecturer, conducting research with the Creative Robotics Laboratory at the National Institute for Experimental Arts.
Supervisors: Hang Chang Chieh and Ryohei Nakatsu
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In the Mixed Reality Lab at the National University of Singapore, researchers are developing new technologies for interaction, which address the need for novel forms to communicate more then ideas but also feelings. We do this by engaging all our senses over the network. Research into areas such as remote haptic communication, food teleportation, interfaces build from three-dimensionally animated liquids, and even smell and taste communication are currently being conducted at the Mixed Reality Lab.
In this talk for TEDx Zurich, I outline the motivations and implementations of various technologies and behavioral models that will shape the way we as a species will communicate in the future.
Have you ever read a book, seen a movie, watched a television show, or played a game that centred around different aspects of a larger story or universe? You may be familiar with popular examples of such universes like Star Wars, Marvel, and The Walking Dead (to name a few).
How do the professionals develop such expansive narratives? How do they ensure that each element stays true to the original story? How do they innovatively use different technologies to share the stories, grow audiences and create an active and involved community of fans?
More and more, we are also engaging with elements or franchises of larger and more complex stories across a much more diverse range of platforms like interactive web experiences, social media communities, mobile devices, theme parks, and even augmented and virtual reality. A major challenge that current and future storytellers face is being able to engage different audiences in a story that is seamlessly told across all of these different platforms.
WHAT WILL I LEARN?
This course will help you to design a strategy for developing and telling your own transmedia story. You will learn about what it takes to:
• Shape your ideas into compelling and well structured narratives and complex story worlds
• Identify, understand, and engage different audiences in your stories
• Create cohesive user experiences across different platforms
• Evaluate existing and emerging technologies to share your story with the world, and help your audience participate in the larger storyworld you create
The course provides you with a unique, authentic, and industry relevant learning opportunity. You will have access to current theory, industry examples and advice and undertake learning activities that will equip you with the tools you need to start developing your own ideas.