The C4DM's Media Development Group (MDG) produces multimedia applications, tools, and prototypes based on the research being conducted by the NYU Media Research Laboratory. The Media Development Group (MDG) works on projects in collaboration with NYU faculty and with outside companies to integrate MRL research into future multimedia products and tools.

The NYU Center for Digital Multimedia has established a Faculty Development Program to assist full-time NYU faculty members in producing multimedia prototypes. The program was established to make state of the art technology available to NYU faculty interested in developing multimedia applications based on their research. Faculty projects receive funding, access to the laboratory facilities, and assistance from the C4DM development staff.

By Robin Kelly
Using PAD technology to create a specific graphic historical universe for analysis and investigation.

By Lorie Novak
Using snapshots collected from over 200 people, Collected Visions explores the complexity of representation and how family photographs have shaped our memories.

By Philip Benfey
This training application, designed for Graduate Students in the Plant Resources track offered by the NYU Biology department, will use PAD++'s zooming and linking capability to create visual representation of the interrelationships existing between different plant Biology disciplines.

The Media Development Group works on internal development projects and on projects with outside companies to further develop multimedia technology. Most of this work is concentrated on the continued development of the research being conduted at the NYU Media Research Lab. The goal of these projects is to develop and demonstrate uses for this technology.

ParkBench is a network of info/communication kiosks to be installed in locations in Manhattan which are accessible to the public. At each kiosk, users are given the option of browsing the internet or making instantaneous contact with someone at another site via videophone. The city-wide interconnection of video, internet, and BBS provides the stage for productions with a character all their own.

A library of XObjects for Macromedia Director that extend its features. These plug-in modules let developers create more challenging multimedia applications.

A collaboration with Kit Laybourne to develop a prototype for a game-based CD-ROM to explore the history, aesthetics, and creative process of Animation -- one of the most robust 20th century art forms.

This project is examining the feasibility of distance learning over the World Wide Web using audio/video conferencing, shared space, and HTML/JAVA.

Electronic Journal is a new scholarly journal covering the full spectrum of sciences and arts. Rather than being published in conventional paper form, the journal will be made available as a quarterly set of "pages."

The Media Development Group is continually adding new features to PAD++. The C4DM staff is developing PAD++ technology to increase the potential for licensing agreements across a wider array of applications.

The C4DM staff is devloping content for PAD++ in order to demonstrate potential applications and to highlight the many features of PAD++. For example, the C4DM staff is developing an interface prototype that will allow users to explore a zoomable floorplan of the lab to learn about the facilities and staff at the C4DM.

The C4DM staff is developing new characters, new gestures, and new scripts for the MRL work in behavioral scripting and procedural animation. IMPROV is a software developemnt environment that uses an artificial intelligence-style story-telling mechanism and fast 3D rendering to create lifelike virtual actors.

Labcam is a point and shoot telerobotic camera that allows users to click on an imagemap to aim a camera in our lab and view the resulting image.

C4DM staffers are developing music technology that will be featured as part of the NYU Media Research Lab's exhibit at Siggraph 96 in New Orleans.

The C4DM maintains a listing job openings in the multimedia industry.