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Dundee students invited to present at Microsoft Expo

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

March 24, 2009 | 3 min read

Design students at the University of Dundee have been selected for the second year running as the UK's sole representatives in the Microsoft Design Expo.

The Dundee students are drawn from the University's courses in Product Design and Interactive Media Design. They will be joined at the Microsoft event by other renowned courses around the world, including the School of Design from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh; Universidad Iberoameriana, in Mexico City; the University of Washington's Interaction Design Division; and the Interactive Telecommunications Program from New York University.

"It is an amazing achievement for Dundee to be invited back for a second year as the sole UK representative," said Dr Jon Rogers, leader of the Product Design course at Dundee.

"This is a global event for design students and there is a lot of competition to get involved. It is great recognition of the quality of the courses we offer and the standards our students have set, including the teams who worked on the Microsoft project last year and who clearly made a great impression."

A team from Dundee travelled to Microsoft's Research Facility in Redmond, Washington, last summer to take part in the 2008 Design Expo.

The Design Expo creates a forum for encouraging imaginative yet realistic ideas, by exploring students' visions for the future of computing with particular users in mind.

This year the Dundee students will work to the brief of `Networked Objects for Grandpeople', where they will be challenged to design very simple products, nonetheless enabled by internet technology, for their grandparents.

http://www.ipd.dundee.ac.uk/designexpo08/start.html#start

http://ipd.dundee.ac.uk/designexpo08/blog/

http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/FS2008/

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