Digital Summit

The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the launch of artificial intelligence (AI) news anchors. It explores how people perceive this new technology and to what extent news audiences would accept and trust them. As news trust has dwindled, AI news anchors will make it more challenging for media outlets owners to convince audiences to believetheir messages. Furthermore, AI news anchors would have a huge impact on real news anchors, as several news viewers had expressed concerns that human anchors would lose their jobs.

According to the past three-year average, 578,930 international students arrive in Canada each year with dreams of great academic and professional careers but are met with a sad reality: the time-consuming and inconvenient process of finding suitable accommodation. My project's goal is to create a solution that bridges the gap between users on both sides by assuring accurate information/verification for each listing and providing a messenger-like query system that promotes transparency while avoiding any ambiguity or uncertainty.

Heritage assets, such as historic buildings and archaeological sites, are prone to the cycle of changes, threatened by man-made and natural hazards. As such, resilient policies, which minimize the period of recovery/restoration, after the loss of heritage assets, are often based on the digitization of cultural goods. This research aims to minimize the effects of such limitations by constructing a conceptual model of a 4D decentralized spatiotemporal Mirror World. By incorporating NFT-based mechanisms, such as ownership and play-to-earn, contributors will remain as the sole creator of the submitted photo/data while potentially generating forms of profit through gamified contributions.

This project aims to explore and define what propels our (digital) culture to consume food porn on social media. As Erin McDonnell defines the concept, “In its contemporary understanding, food porn is a set of visual aesthetics that emphasizes the pleasurable, sensual dimensions of food, derived from (but not actually employed in) human sexuality”. In an attempt to answer the question, I took a phenomenological approach to analyze the material, focusing on the effects of food representation beyond the physical senses.

The Web 3.0 concept and blockchain market substantially impacted Yanbo and Joe’s project. A non-fungible token (NFT) is a tradable digital asset representing real-world objects such as art, music, in-game items, and videos on the blockchain. The loot box project will be an iteration of the current NFT purchasing experience, which optimized gamified and interactive environments for consumers. Specifically, it focuses on maximizing the consumer’s arousal effect through gamification planning and rule sets.

Mystery in single-player, 2D video games is a potent method to generate emotionality in players. As a solo game developer, I have created a research program centred around art style as to inform decisions I make for my larger game. This long-decayed world suspiciously teems with mechanical, hostile life. In every blade of grass, in every crumbling edifice, the mysteries of an empire within the forest hang tantalizingly out-of-reach.

From time immemorial, music was a fleeting event that could only be experienced in the moment. Just like a trickle of rain before you knew it, the moment was gone. Historically, for many African civilisations, music and art were of the utmost importance because of their oral traditions. But today music is no longer a fleeting experience but rather an infinitely playable commodity on what we call streaming platforms. What does this mean for the African musical tradition? For the role of music? "Rhythm as the Word" is a three-part sound piece that will attempt to discover what could be considered to be African musical tradition, and how it can live on in the digital world of today.

We hear so much about digital media fandoms. But what about the professionals who produce digital content: do they engage with their audiences, and how far does this engagement go? Through industry interviews and case studies, I explore the changing landscape of creator-fan engagement in the animation and video game fields. My study shows that while engagement with fans is hard wired into the gaming industry in a way not seen for animated television series, in gaming too there are real practical and artistic limits to how far creators can listen to fan opinions.

Intangible cultural heritage has been facing the problem of losing continuators. I believe the combination of digital media can help to solve the issue. My MRP is to present the beauty of Chinese tea culture through an interactive installation using Arduino and Processing. While interacting, we can see different types of tea in China and their features. I hope to use this project to spread this old and precious culture.

This research aims to learn how games can impact people's minds and learn different hidden themes in games. My research can also help us understand the more profound effect these games have on people, especially the younger generation. My focus will be mainly on the climate change topic, and I will highlight this issue through a text-based adventure game that I am making for my project.

With the recent growth of the web3 space, digital media has seen several developments across multiple subs-verticals. Among several decentralized changes and incorporations, we have seen NFTs and other kinds of tokens have risen to prominence. With my research, I intend on assessing economic feasibility of social/ creator coins as a way to incentivize and monetize digital content creation (as an alternative/ additional income stream.

The pandemic has opened up possibilities for new formats of learning and collaboration. Despite being more accessible, online learning lacks not only the physical spaces essential for collaboration but also the external stimuli crucial for facilitating creativity and motivation. My MRP explores the best practices of applying adaptive gamification to facilitate effective collaborative learning in a digital environment. An interactive online learning platform was designed to create an adaptive gamified learning experience that tailors to individual motivational affordances.

An exploration of how physical, digital tools and gamification could enhance primary school children's playground experience. By creating a physical video game level in a kid's playground, the project's objective is to demonstrate that technology can contribute to the youth's mental and physical health and help them see the world more equitably.

This project aims to explore and define what propels our (digital) culture to consume food porn on social media. As Erin McDonnell defines the concept, “In its contemporary understanding, food porn is a set of visual aesthetics that emphasizes the pleasurable, sensual dimensions of food, derived from (but not actually employed in) human sexuality”. In an attempt to answer the question, I took a phenomenological approach to analyze the material, focusing on the effects of food representation beyond the physical senses.

"Hunter Games" is a gamified task outsourcing app, a mobile marketplace that matches freelancers with local needs while providing consumers with a gamified experience by incorporating the concept of bounty hunting. Through this MRP, it is expected to gain an understanding of existing and potential digital marketing approaches that can increase users for this app, and a social media marketing plan will be developed.

A number of branching narratives in video form, a subset of Interactive Digital Narratives, emerged in recent years as they operate within the frame of point-and-click experiences described by limited autonomy as well as interactivity. They negotiate through the difficulties of developing interactive narrative experiences primarily defined by passive viewing. The experience carries a unique set of creative choices, and provides a valuable way of understanding interactors’ responses. This research sets out to understand audience experiences through a content analysis of social media commentary.

There are 21–33% of adults have at least one tattoo on their body and around 15–20% have two or more tattoos. My paper and previous studies show that a lot of people in search of tattoo artists or tattoo shops on current platforms found it hard to gather information or face dead ends while searching for it online. Dots app is the solution. Dots is a one-stop platform for tattoo lovers looking for tattoo artists, gathering information, booking tattoo appointments, getting new tattoos and building connections. It allows users to connect and chat directly with tattoo artists, help them to find artists that match their desired style, explore unique tattoo inspiration and interact with the tattoo community.