IIT Madras’ Centre for Memory Studies Launches ‘MovingMemory’ App for Memory Studies; Check Details Here

New Delhi: The IIT Madras, Centre for Memory Studies has launched an application named ‘MovingMemory’ that simultaneously uses augmented and virtual reality technology. It captures various moving models of memory through digital reconstruction.

The app was launched at the second annual Indian Network for Memory Studies conference, ‘Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability,’. The conference was conducted by Indian Network for Memory Studies and Centre for Memory Studies at IIT Madras on September 20 and 22, 2023.

As per the institute, the ‘MovingMemory’ app can be used through Android or iOS and through web browser platforms. It is a spatial app developed to inhabit the metaverse world. 

The IIT Madras app is designed to enable the user to select any desired avatar and navigate through three-dimensional spaces. It is embedded with additional features like video, audio, 3D images, and interactive elements which can be used as models for sustainable and heritage-oriented pedagogic and research approaches.

Director of IIT Madras V Kamakot inaugurated the conference on September 20 in the presence of Seema Massot, Director of American Centre, US Consulate General, Chennai, and Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Head, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, and the faculty coordinators Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj. 

Around 100 presenting and over 500 non-presenting participants from all over India attended the program. In addition to this, participants from the USA, UK, Germany, New Zealand, Morocco, Canada, Sweden, and Bangladesh were present at the conference.

Addressing the inaugural session and delivering his speech, Conference Coordinator Avishek Parui said, “This conference, like all other research activities at the Centre for Memory Studies at IIT Madras, seeks to uniquely bridge technology studies and humanities in order to offer a more complex model of engaging with memory, ecology, and sustainability, while also connecting to issues such as disaster studies, anticipatory governance, and durability.”

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