Edinburgh Napier University

“This is amazing, I’m in two worlds!” A multiple reality game designed with children for children.

Presentation / Conference

Flint, T. (2017, September)

“This is amazing, I’m in two worlds!” A multiple reality game designed with children for children. Paper presented at IPA 2017

Eidolon 360 – a VR experience

Presentation / Conference

Hood, B., & Flint, T. (2018, March)

Eidolon 360 – a VR experience. Presented at Tangible Embedded Interaction 2018. TEI Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

Art piece displayed at the ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) exhibition. https://tei.acm.org/2018/

Designing for mixed reality with children

Presentation / Conference

Flint, T. (2017, May)

Designing for mixed reality with children. Paper presented at Researching with and for children: Place, pedagogy and play, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh

2021 - 2022

This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created wi...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £25,708

IIDI & Jupiter Artland Foundation

2011 - 2011

This project involved developing audio guides for Jupiter Artland.  A traditional audio guide was developed, including introductions of the work and discussions from the artists.  Alongside this was a...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,992

Festival UK 2022

2020 - 2021

This is an application for a funded R&D process to develop a bid for Festival 2022. Festival UK* 2022 will be ten open, original, optimistic, large-scale and extraordinary acts of public engagement t...

Funder: The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | Value: £4,800

Creative Coin

2021 - 2022

This project uses data and technology to design a “Creative Coin”, an alternative currency as a method for exploring the contributory value of the Creative Industries to a Circular Economy.

Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,380

What Do Dovecot Weavers Do All Day?

2016 - 2016

Dovecot and the ENU team are exploring innovative digital solution for visitors to experience the work of weavers without disturbing the concentrated work required for tapestry weaving. With the creat...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,524

Getting stuck and getting help: How children access support when using technology

2015 - date

Ms Fiona Stewart | Director of Studies: Dr Gemma Webster | Second Supervisor: Dr Tom Flint

Dr Tom Flint awarded prestigious R&D funding

16 November 2020

Dr Tom Flint from the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University has been named as a member of one of the groups in the funded R&D phase of Festival UK 2022.

School of Computing Hosts Easter Egg hunt online in Jupiter Artland in Minecraft

12 April 2020

Children from across Scotland gathered together in virtual space for an Easter Egg hunt hosted in Jupiter Artland in Minecraft during the lockdown.

MEmorial Project awarded Edinburgh Futures Institute Funding

24 June 2019

In June 2019 the MEmorial team completed a two week development workshop, to follow on from this initial research, funded by an Edinburgh Futures Institute Research Award. The workshop culminated in a...

MEmorial Project awarded prestigious residency

20 October 2018

The MEMorial Project, has been awarded a residency at the Museum of Loss and Renewal Collomachia Italy.

Tom Flint to talk at Edinburgh Informatics HCI Group

20 February 2018

Tom Flint will be discussing his work with Jupiter Artland in a talk titled An infrastructure for exploring the mixed reality continuum with children: Minecraft, Mixed Reality, and Jupiter Artland. T...

Appropriation Affordance and Minecraft Invited talk by Tom Flint

24 November 2017

Tom Flint gave a seminar for The Centre for Research in Digital Education titled Appropriation Affordance and Minecraft: What the methods people use to navigate Minecraft tell us about approaches to t...

Tom Flint to demonstrate VR application at The National Gallery London

29 July 2017

Tom Flint will be accompanying weavers from Dovecot Tapestry Studio at a workshop held at the National Gallery London.

Android Mixed Reality Game for Jupiter Artland launched at Edinburgh International Science Festival.

1 April 2017

A bespoke Android game based on the Jupiter Artland Minecraft Experience was launched at a special event today.

The Jupiter Artland Minecraft Experience

4 April 2016

A virtual version of Jupiter Artland in Minecraft was launched at Edinburgh International Science Festival.