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Continue reading →: Crystal Palace – Overground FestivalThis week we took the StoryPlaces show in the road for the last time, with a stall in the storytelling area of the Crystal Palace Overground Festival. A few months ago we ran a workshop for local and digital writers at the Upper Norwood Library Hub, and four of our…
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Continue reading →: Crystal Palace Writer’s WorkshopAs part of the StoryPlaces project we recently ran a workshop for writers in Crystal Palace Park, exploring the creation of locative stories. The workshop was based in the Upper Norwood Library Hub, and we invited local writers, and also digital writers from Southampton who were keen to experiment with…
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Continue reading →: Two Clock Country
There is a long used aphorism, that a person with one clock always knows the time, but a person with two clocks is never sure. As 2016 slithers into the past it leaves behind two democracies, the US and the UK, with the democratic equivalent of the two clock problem. It was Churchill who…
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Continue reading →: The Narrative Structure of The Witcher 3Let’s get this out of the way first. The Witcher 3 is an astonishingly good game: fun, engaging, massive, and worthy of just about every superlative you could chug down before overdosing on praise and reaching for your White Honey. It’s a very good game. It also has a strong narrative,…
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Continue reading →: StoryPlaces – Bournemouth Natural Science SocietyThis week we once again climbed down the long ivory staircase from the University in order to run the second of our location-based story events for the Leverhulme funded StoryPlaces project. This time as part of the Bournemouth Arts By the Sea festival, and focused around the wonderful collection and people…
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Continue reading →: StoryPlaces – Southampton Old TownLast week we ran our first location-based story event as part of the StoryPlaces project, making location-based stories based around Southampton Old Town available to members of the public. We set up in the beautiful Tudor House, and over three days helped around 100 people to read one of 6 stories set…
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Continue reading →: The Sound of DisturbedYou may have unwittingly heard it in the background of the latest Gears of War trailer, but its worth drawing your attention to this fine version of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence as performed by Disturbed. It’s not without its critics, who point out its all a bit…
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Continue reading →: Tales of TireeIn March I travelled up to the Scottish Island of Tiree with my StoryPlaces partner-in-crime Charlie Hargood in order to take part in the 11th Tiree Tech Wave organised by Alan Dix. The Tech Wave is a creative space where people can come together to talk interesting ideas and make cool things.…
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Continue reading →: GlobalGameJam16, 33 Great Games and WispA couple of weeks ago Southampton hosted one of the Global Game Jam events (#sotongamejam). The Global Game Jam is a series of events across the world where amateurs and professionals work alone or in small teams and try to complete a game within 48 hours, the Southampton event happened…
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Continue reading →: With Thomas Tallis on my iPodI met Terry Pratchett. It was a fleeting encounter at a book signing in Southampton; the lines were long, and I blurted as much to him when I reached the end. “To Dave,” he wrote, “who was born in the queue.” It’s not a bad two second appraisal. I am…
Welcome,
I’m David
I am Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK within the Data, Intelligence, and Society group in ECS. I am also Head of the Education Group within ECS with the goal of improving education across the whole of Electronics and Computer Science in a meaningful, healthy, and sustainable way.
My research roots are in Hypertext, but my current interests are in Interactive Digital Narratives, Mixed Reality Games, and AI Knowledge Interfaces.
David Millard 