Science

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The Treasury Science Program is an initiative to advance the understanding of spatial technology for health, education and social impact, focussing broadly on the human science of digital space. This is a broad area encompassing natural and social sciences, design professions, and many technology disciplines and applications.

The themes of the Science Program are the cognition, design practice, and performance measures of digital spatial assets. These themes build on learnings from how configuration of physical spatial environments inform cognitive states, and offer starting points for a broad investigation of how physical spatial environments and digital spatial environments can inform each other, for best delivery of intended performance.

Below are sample questions for further investigation within these themes, which seek to be illustrative rather than exhaustive. Each contribution to the project will seek to elaborate on and report back on questions and work under these and related themes.

Cognition of Digital Space

• How do digital spatial environments inform cognitive states - emotional, embodied, memory, perception and beyond.
• How are physical and digital environments are similar and different with regards to cognitive states, and unique mental constructs for combined domains?

Design Practice for Digital Space

• How do the design of digital spatial environments elicit specific cognitive states?
• In what ways do digital spatial environments facilitate live-testing, iteration and collaborative design approaches?
• How does navigation and interaction design in digital spatial environments change compared to fixed and fully virtual environments?

Performance Measures of Digital Space

• What new measures need to be developed to measure performance?
• How can performance of digital spatial environments be measured over time, across multiple, potentially conflicting, variables?
• How can performance measurement be suitably controlled?

Activities include:

• low or no-cost use of Treasury creators’ assets in research and social impact contexts
• informal, research-driven discussion and information dissemination

The goal is to support application of spatial technology including but not limited to VR, AR, reality capture and scanning, real-time rendering, photo-real virtualization, and more to issues including mental health, early and formal education, lifelong learning, social development and inclusion, natural environment protection and research, indigenous cultural protection, and related domains and fields of research and social impact.

The Treasury perspective on the technology space in which the research project takes places is developed in the Spatial Computation Thesis .

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Treasury spatial assets may be made available to researchers, developers and social impact actors at low or zero cost, for the purposes of science, health, education and other social impact, subject to the approval of Treasury, the Treasury scientific advisory panel, and individual creators themselves.

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