This layer is focusing on computer games and novel visualization environments to provide creative research challenges likely to have impact on distance learning, collaborative work environments, and understanding large complex data sets. We have chosen computer games because they combine many key elements of the digital media arts--its temporal structures are driven interactively; it has a social dimension; and it has varying degrees of sensory immersion and integration with the physical environment. Computer games are also one of our fastest growing export industries.

• Active Space
• ActiveCampus
• Audioscape
• Experimental Game Lab
• Feral Robotic Dogs
• Game Culture and Technology Lab [GameLab]
• Game Grid
• Traces Vision System

• Center for Research in Computer and the Arts (CRCA) -- UCSD
• Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) -- UCI
• The Game Lab -- UCSD
• Game Culture & Technology Lab -- UCI
• The Beall Center -- UCI
• SDSC/Calit2 Synthesis Center -- UCSD
• Electronic Visualization Laboratory -- UCSD