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These courses have been developed in consultation with Digital Media Kingston’s industry panel. Our relationship with this panel ensures an industry‐focused learning experience, where industry overlaps are manifest tangibly, through course design and ethos as well as unique opportunities such as work placements, real projects, mentoring and internships to arm you for entry into the highly competitive digital media arena.

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MA/MSc 3D Computer Generated Imaging

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…the course develops modelling skills, shading, lighting, rendering, animation and rigging and associated skills such as rotoscoping and match moving with the MA modules placing a strong emphasis on digital modelling and texturing and/or character rigging and the MSc modules emphasising the high level 3D graphics programming for character rigging and/or games development to underpin collaboration and teamwork... Read more...

MA/MSc Games Development

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…an introduction to 3D CGI is shared with the 3D CGI specialists but the MA then focuses upon developing experiential interfaces, complex architectures and level design whilst the MSc emphasises programming for games and the mathematics, physics and coding skills needed to take a professional role in your team productions such as programmer, level designer, art director etc... Read more...

MA / MSc User Experience Design

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…this course looks at the core skills behind user-centred development, focusing on the analysis and design of multimodal, multimedia user interfaces that are easy to use and support compelling user experiences with optional MA modules in ecommerce or game design and MSc mark-up languages and scripting after which you will take a professional role such as user interface designer, user experience designer, information architect to work in a team with other students... Read more...

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About Us

Digital Media Kingston aims to transcend the inherited boundaries between the arts and sciences and education and industry to ensure a synergy between our teaching, research and enterprise and the market place that provides an industry-focused learning experience. We aim to provide graduates with work placements, live projects and internships, contextualised by a research culture focused upon collaboration and innovation. Dreamworks, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and Samsung Design Europe are among the top firms who have helped us refine a new suite of Industry facing Masters Courses, designed to facilitate the development of specialist technical skills in the context of professional production and team working to help fill the UKs digital media skills gap.

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MSc by Research Opportunity

Posted on 24/03/2011 by Karen Cham

What Contexts make users Click?

Martin Colbert’s Google Research Award

a display ad: what context will make users click the advert below?



Web users soon get used to display adverts, and learn to ignore them, so many sites resort to attention-grabbing advert designs or deceptive page layouts to boost click through rates. This is a problem for us, because the user experience is impaired.  More importantly, it also deters the use of online information.

Is there a way of increasing the persuasivenss of display adverts, without also reducing the usability or credibility of the host site? This project explores this possibility by studying the context in which the advert is displayed, and its effects upon user experience, rather than the design of the advert itself.  Perhaps, we should improve the quality of information on the site, the relevance of the advert to the user’s task, and the credibility of the advert selection process.

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Numerous Internships at UI Centric

Posted on 10/03/2011 by Karen Cham

We are delighted to have been approached once again by UI Centric inviting  DMK Students to apply for one of a number of Internships as  Information Architects, Interface Designers and Web Authors, all of which will lead to a full time job. They will start as soon as possible and complete their Final Project in the workplace 

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Tetris, trauma and the brain

Posted in News
Posted on 29/05/2010 by Karen Cham
Someone playing Tetris on their phone

Re earchers have made great progress in recent years in understanding the neural processes and bio-chemistry involved in memory formation and recall. So much so that some are beginning to talk about cures for phobias and treatments for post traumatic stress disorder.

In her work on PTSD at Oxford University’s Institute of … read the rest of this entry …

Eadweard Muybridge Defining Modernities

Posted in Research Top
Posted on 26/05/2010 by Karen Cham

A new web portal celebrating the work of Eadweard Muybridge was launched today at The British Film Institute. The website, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council     (AHRC), aims to provide a definitive research resource for the work of 19th century photographer Eadweard Muybridge,  known primarily … read the rest of this entry …

I made this tune at Appy Road

Posted in Culture
Posted on 14/05/2010 by Karen Cham

PixieTea, a Chinese DIY pop star, is making waves on the web with a catchy electro-bubblegum-pop tune put together solely from various bleeps, thuds and strums made by her mobile phone. She uses apps including Drum- Meister, Bassist, iDrum, NlogSynthesizer, NESynth and iShred. Read More

Coma victim ’speaks’ with his thoughts

Posted in Culture
Posted on 14/05/2010 by Karen Cham

A man believed to be in a permanent vegetative state shocked doctors by answering questions through thoughts. The 29-year-old crash victim had shown no physical sign of response for five years but scientists scanning his brain found he gave “yes and no” answers through images. Brain scans show man’s answers (Fig) More

Ultimate Cyber Silver-Surfer

Posted in Culture
Posted on 14/05/2010 by Karen Cham

She stays in touch with her grandchildren on Skype, updates her status on Facebook and regularly texts her family. Such is the 90-year-old’s technological prowess that Iris King really does deserve the title of the ultimate cyber silver-surfer. The great-grandmother, who lives in Brighton, believes more people of her age should embrace … read the rest of this entry …

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