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IDM Research

Using technology to create meaningful and engaging digital experiences

Our research combines experimental practices in media arts and engineering, constantly modifying industry-standard technologies and creating new ones.

student demonstrating motion capture project

Projects Labs Partnerships Publications

Overview

The Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) is the research arm of IDM at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The BxmC provides an interdisciplinary environment for media research at NYU Tandon, partnering faculty and students from the Integrated Digital Media program with collaborators from across NYU, New York City, and beyond.

Graduate students in IDM participate in research initiatives through the BxmC, and in our partnerships with other programs and schools at NYU as well as schools throughout New York City who participate in the NYC Media Lab and Rlab.

Some of our top research areas include:

Assistive Technology
Augmented and Virtual Reality
Human-Computer Interaction
Motion Capture

Real-Time Performance
Social Activism and Civic Technology
User Experience (UX)

Projects

Our faculty and students collaborate with others across NYU in research that integrates digital media and society. These projects range from:

Motion capture: using motion capture technology to reimagine theatrical performance
Virtual/augmented reality: developing novel uses of virtual/augmented reality for health and wellness
STEAM education: integrating STEAM learning into special needs education
Citizen science: developing citizen science tools to empower NYC residents to monitor and report on noise pollution in their communities
Flooding and the urban microbiome: an interdisciplinary trio of faculty study the ramifications of urban flooding on sewage pathogens

IDM Thesis Projects

Visit the IDM Showcase Thesis Project website

Labs

Mobile Augmented Reality Lab

NYU’s Mobile Augmented Reality Lab is devoted to pioneering the field of mobile augmented reality with emerging AR technologies.

NYU Ability Project

An interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the study of disability and the development of accessible, assistive and rehab technologies.

Partnerships

NYC Media Lab

NYC Media Lab connects media and technology companies with New York City’s universities to drive innovation, entrepreneurship and talent development.

Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP)

A unique research center that uses New York City as its Laboratory to help cities.

NYU Tandon Future Labs

The NYU Tandon Future Labs are business incubators for a new generation.

Publications

INTER

A magazine featuring interviews of our IDM Pre-Thesis students

Look Books

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