Kevin Russell

"SIMULATION TRAINING IN ACUTE CLINICAL COMPETENCES FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED DOCTORS" LONDON Sept 2005-Jun 2006
S.Heard, R.Dickson, B.Gainey, N.Gosling, M.Kulkarni, O.Lacey, G.McAnulty, A.Nunn, C.Sadler, M.Aitken, K.Russell and K. Haire

Research survey of 737 UK doctors within Foundation Year 1 - Modernizing Medical Careers program. The study produced statistically significant evidence supporting the view that situated scenairo simulation would positively effect doctors practice towards greater patient safety. Presented at the Ottawa Conference at the June 2006 in New York, NY

"3RD WORLD" PALO ALTO, CA Jun 1991 K.Russell, K. Miller
Designed an immersive virtual world during the three day "Real World Challenges Conference" sponsored by VPL Research Inc. and Stanford Research Institute (SRI) using VPL's human interfaces; the EyePhones and DataGlove and simulation programming environment Body Electric; together with Crystal River's Convolvotron (3D Audio Engine). The world consisted of wire frame sphere, enveloping a sun and mushroom with a door leading down a latter to a keva. A songbird flew in an circular orbit around this, as bubbles animated upward on a helical spline.

INTERFACE MUSIC PRODUCER/CODER
"STREAMS OF STORIES" NEW YORK, NY
Apr 1992-Jun 1992 K. Miller, R. Leventhal, K. Russell, N. Davis
Composed sound design, programmed & integrated the musical interaction of MIDI/audio engine code and vocal lyric samples for this interactive sculpture for the first SIGKIDS exhibit at SIGGRAPH 92'. Funded by Apple Computer's Advanced Multimedia Lab, from a touch screen, users touched 3D animated water creatures floating within the video of a streams surface. Touching creatures triggered melodic lyrics and harmonic accompaniment. Touching the water's surface triggered a visual ripple and sound effects. The sculpture changed narrative themes and modulated musical dynamics based on how frequent the user interacted.

DESIGNER, DEVELOPER, PRODUCER "SILHOUETTE OF EPIPHANIES" NEW YORK, NY
Jan 1991-May 1992 K. Russell
Designed, programmed and produced a serious game prototype to communicate the academic, theoretic and mythological relationship between sound, music, and artistic creativity in delivery of my Master Thesis. Combining first person character narratives from Pythagoras, Orpheus, Eurydice, and David, individualized text, musical themes and spaces were triggered via gestural navigation input using an on-screen wand for up/down, left or right (2D Matrix) movement through an Italian villa and sound sculpture garden. Teleportation occured between spaces, however, collecting found learning objects into a cornucopia then mixing them together, teleported users to a new higher interaction level to play music through interactive animated motion graphics triggering a 8 networked audio/music devices, thus reinforcing what they had learned.

INTERFACE AUDIO ENGINEER "PAD INTERFACE PROJECT" NEW YORK, NY Jan 1991-Dec 1991
Prototyped with academy award winner, Dr. Ken Perlin, at the NYU Robotics Lab/Digital Media Center, a digital signal processing, dynamic MIDI audio system for an infinitely fractal interface. Funded by NYNEX's Multimedia Division and Apple's External Research Group my research focused on designing new methods of real time aural feedback for perceptual cues to aid navigation.

MUSIC PRODUCER & ACTOR "MINDFUL" NEW YORK, NY Apr 1991-May 1991 K. Miller, K. Russell
Composed, engineered & produced the music, as well as acted in, Kenny Millers, iTV project based loosely on Wim Wenders "Wings of Desire". The project aired nightly throughout the June 1992 on Manhattan Cable TV. Using a touch-tone telephone, viewers could call-in, access, choose and navigate through New York City scenes from a first person main character perspective or third person perspective. I composed and designed the ambient music using a harmonic and non-harmonic related structure to accommodate the simultaneous use of linear videotape and non-linear videodisk media playback devices.

DESIGNER & CO-PRODUCER "SWALLOWTAIL" NEW YORK, NY K. Russell, K.Miller Dec 1989-Jun 1990
Designed an edutainment application installation around the narrative theme commenting on the technological convergence now griping us. Networked two Macintoshes for animation and audio respectively. 3D animated characters and scenes triggered audio samples library, MIDI driven sound modules, and sound effects from external CD-ROM. This simultaneously afforded the user a lyrical environment to explore, learn and play music and sound.