Programme

EU-NZ Pilot Cooperation in Higher Education

Leonardo: A multi-national exploration in Interaction Design and research

The Leonardo project is a collaboration between four leading design and engineering schools of Europe and three partners in New Zealand to develop a unique multi-cultural word-class learning experience in Interaction Technology and Design. The main focus of the programme is to promote the exchange of EU and NZ students at the post-graduate level. This three-year programme will expose NZ students to the richness of European design while teaching Europeans the unique creativity of New Zealand. These students will be the next generation of interaction designers who will develop the products that meet the needs of the future.

EU institutions:

Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Hagenberg, Austria
University of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

NZ institutions:

HIT Lab NZ, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Wanganui School of Design, Wanganui, New Zealand
University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

RECENT PROJECTS

Aroo - Smart Folders

The Aroo system provides a combination of virtual and physical interface to an augmented filing cabinet system. It links the virtual and physical document storage and retrieval capabilities of the traditional filing cabinets and folders to that of a...

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