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Creative Space


The MUSE research group focuses on individual experience of, and through, information technology. We are situated at the Department of Informatics, Umeå University, and the Interactive Institute Tools for Creativity Studio in Umeå, Sweden. The meanings of Muse:

  • Mediated Understanding refers to the fact that people make individual sense of things through their own experiences, and that their experiences are increasingly produced via their interactions with and through computers and electronic networks.

  • Sensory reflects a recognition of the growing importance of the perception of concrete forms in mediated understanding, and the central role of the human body in many recent forms of human-computer interaction.

  • Exploration points to the fact that we each find individual paths through the virtual - and increasingly concrete - world of computer representations, in a way not so different from how we explore new parts of the physical world around us.