| Deer hunting at CSCW'08 The paper Hunting for Fun: Solitude and Attentiveness in Collaboration, written by Oskar Juhlin and Alexandra Weilenmann has been accepted to CSCW'08. (8 September, 2008) |  |
| Ethnography on Live TV Production at
uxtv'08 The paper Producing Collaborative Video: Developing an Interactive User Experience for Mobile TV, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Arvid Engström, Oskar Juhlin and Mark Perry has been accepted to uxtv'08. (8 September, 2008) |  |
| Litter in Journal Space and Culture The paper Laying waste together: the shared creation and disposal of refuse in a social context, written by Mark Perry, Oskar Juhlin and Daniel Normark has been accepted to Journal of Space and Culture. (8 September, 2008) |  |
| Funding The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has decided to fund a two year guest research visit by Associate Professor Barry Brown at the Mobility studio Interactive Institute and the Mobile Life Centre. Barry is currently at the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego. His research combines computer science and ethnography to explore new technologies for leisure and entertainment. (8 September, 2008) |  |
| Congratulations! Liselott Brunnberg successfully defended her thesis on Thursday. The thesis can be found at this page. (10 June, 2008) |  |
| MoreVideo! at Mobile Multimedia – Content Creation and Use Workshop at MobileHCI2008 The paper Mobile Collaborative Live Video Production, written by Arvid Engström, Mattias Esbjörnsson, Cristian Norlin and Oskar Juhlin, has been accepted to the workshop Mobile Multimedia – Content Creation and Use at MobileHCI 2008. (29 May, 2008) | |
| First presentation of Swarm Cam The Swarm Cam, which is a prototype application supporting mobile collaborative video editing in night club environments, was successfully demonstrated at the video workshop in Cambridge on Thursday. (20 May, 2008) | |
| PhD thesis defence On Thursday the 5th of June 2008, 13.00, Liselott Brunnberg will defend her PhD thesis, Playing with the Highway Experience - Pervasive Games on the Road. The defence will take place in room Cinderella, Kista Science Tower Färögatan 33, Kista, Stockholm [map]. Opponent is Associate Professor Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, National University of Singapore. (14 May, 2008) |  |
| Video editing workshop Arvid Engström and Oskar Juhlin will participate in a video editing workshop the 15h and 16th of May, organised by Alex Taylor at Microsoft Research. (29 April, 2008) | |
| Stockholm media week Oskar Juhlin will participate in Stockholm Media week Thursday the 8th of March. He will present research on future mobile media applications during the title “Rörligt eller rörigt? Om IP-TV och Mobile Media”. (29 April, 2008) |  |
| On deer
hunting and technology use Oskar Juhlin's and Alexandra Weilenmann's abstract On movement, sound and radio talk in deer hunting has been accepted for presentation at the Space=Interaction=Discourse conference which is being held November 12th-14th 2008 at Aalborg. (29 April, 2008) |  |
| Comment on the use of mobile phones
while driving Mattias Esbjörnsson appeared in the TV4 news the 9th of April, where he commented on the use of mobile phones in traffic. (14 April, 2008) | |
| MoreVideo! at MobileHCI 2008 The paper Mobile Collaborative Live Video Mixing, written by Arvid Engström, Mattias Esbjörnsson and Oskar Juhlin, has been accepted to MobileHCI 2008. (14 April, 2008) |  |
| Welcome Angelica Bäckström and Elvira Danell studying at Umeå University joins the mobility studio to do their masters project. They will be working within the Backseat Playground project. (8 February, 2008) |  |
| Welcome Annelie Schwanecke, studying at KTH, joins the mobility studio to do her research project during the spring. She will work with the WeJ-prototype in the MoreVideo! project. (7 February, 2008) |  |
| DesignFor
Mobile Liselott Brunnberg has been invited to talk at the conference DesignForMobile in Lawrence Kansas, the fall 2008. (5 February, 2008) |  |
| The future Media Landscape Mattias Esbjörnsson is interviewed in the February issue of Monitor, where he comments on the future media landscape [PDF] (in Swedish). (29 January, 2008) |  |
| Living Lab in Kista Mattias Esbjörnsson presented the More Video! project [PDF] at the Living Lab inauguration in Kista, the 24th of January. (24 January, 2008) | |
| Deer hunting as mobile and collaborative
leisure Oskar Juhlin’s and Alexandra Weilenmann’s deer hunting study will be presented at the “talk”-seminar on the IT-university in Göteborg the 13th of February. (17 January, 2008) |  |
| Interdisciplinary Research Retreat in
Karlstad Oskar Juhlin will present the Mobile Life Centre at Karlstad University, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Communication and IT on their Interdisciplinary Research Retreat in Sunne, the 10th of January. (2 January, 2008) | |
| More Video! at Night and Darkness workshop at CHI2008 The paper Nighttime visual media production in club environments [PDF], written by Arvid Engström, Mattias Esbjörnsson and Oskar Juhlin, has been accepted to the workshop Night and darkness: Interaction after dark at CHI2008. (29 November, 2007) |  |
| News article on scientific and industrial collaborations Oskar Juhlin comments on potential problems with scientific and industrial collaborations in the student journal at Stockholm University. (8 November, 2007) |  |
| Internetdagarna 2007 Oskar Juhlin, Lars Erik Holmquist and Tove Jaensson from the Mobile Life centre took part in two sessions at Internetdagarna2007 on the subject of future mobile applications. (8 November, 2007) |  |
| AXIS Journal Backseat playground is featured in an article in the December paper issue (vol.130) of Axis, the world design journal from Japan. (8 November, 2007) |  |
| Liselott Brunnberg - Ph.D. pre-seminar December 20th in Kista Welcome to the pre-seminar on Liselott Brunnberg´s thesis draft Backseat Playgrounds - Pervasive game play through the windows of a vehicle, on the 20th of December, 13.00-16.00 at Mobile Life/Interactive Institute in Kista, Stockholm. Konrad Tollmar will act as opponent on the seminar. Konrad is Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the department for Informatics at Lund University. [Link to thesis site] (8 November, 2007) |  |
| The Haptic Cube brings force feedback to the Backseat Playground Fredrik Kronqvist and Peter Karlsson has investigated into haptic feed back for the Backseat Playground, and implemented a prototype [PDF]. (5 November, 2007) |  |
| Model for the design of Backseat Playground entry Etienne has done a conceptual study on Backseat Players and identified an urgent need to design the game to enable persuasive entry to this new and innovative form of game play [PDF]. (1 November, 2007) | |
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playground in Metro Teknik Metro Teknik publish an interview with Liselott Brunnberg on the future of mobile games in cars [link] (page 10). (3 October, 2007) | |
| Mindtrek finalists selected MoO - Mobile Outside has been selected as one of three finalists in Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards. The project was awarded with the second price. (1 October, 2007) |  |
| Traffic as aesthetical experience Julio Angulo at BTH has, in collaboration with the Mobility studio, made a first effort to study traffic as experiential and aesthetical experience. (1 October, 2007) |  |
| Invited panelist Oskar Juhlin is invited as panelist to the Nokia Games Summit 2007 in Lisbon the 9-10th of October. (24 September, 2007) |  |
| Mark Ollila at Nokia describes their
game strategy The former studio member, Mark Ollila, now Head of Games Development at Nokia, describes their new strategy to connect the game experience to the Internet. (10 September, 2007) |  |
| Mobile Life inauguration brochure The brochure from the Mobile Life inauguration is now available on the web [PDF]. (6 September, 2007) |  |
| First demo of Backseat grabber The Backseat grabber was demonstrated at the Mobile Life Center inauguration. The demo combines the results of two separate master projects i.e. “the haptic cube” and “the mobile direction sensor”. (3 September, 2007) |  |
| New prototype - Backseat
grabber The Backseat Grabber prototype provides a new interaction form to enable more interesting journey based games. When the passenger who enjoys such game play, and direct his mobile phone towards passing geographical objects, it will generate a feeling of being touched by the hand. “Zombies” at a graveyard, or the “magnetism” around a power wire, will reach into the vehicle. (3 September, 2007) |  |
| First demo in the More video!-project The More video! project was demonstrated at the Mobile Life Center inauguration. The project was also presented in the plenary session [PDF] (large file - 20 mb). (3 September, 2007) |  |
| Idg.se
features interview on the backseat playground project Idg.se asks Oskar Juhlin, under their “hallå där” theme, whether the BSP game could become too realistic [link]. (13 August, 2007) | |
| Welcome! David Jonsson, who normally works at the support section of the institute, will work in the studio during the autumn with the implementation of a prototype in the More TV!-project. (13 August, 2007) |  |
| Participation
in
GeoInfo 2007 Liselott Brunnberg will present the Backseat Playground project at the conference GeoInfo 2007 in Gävle the 17 to the 19th of October. (13 August, 2007) |  |
| Backseat
Playground appears in paper edition of Mobil, June 2007 The BSP project features in a reportage on new location based services in the Swedish journal Mobil. (25 June, 2007) | |
| Comment on
the future of mobile phones The journal “PC för alla” features an article on the future of mobile phones. (15 June, 2007) | |
| Master
study on mediated social serendipity Joakim Formo, who has been working in the studio, has recently taken his exam at Oslo Scool of Architecture and Design on a design study of the possibility of developing mobile services and applications that draw on interesting chance encounters, which he refers to as “mediated social serendipity”. (8 June, 2007) | |
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study on pin-pointing in Back seat playground Johan Klövstedt, who has been working in the Studio, has been graduated at Uppsala University on a master in computer science. He has developed an algorithm which recognises when a player is pin pointing towards a geographic object. This can be utilised to select among GIS-data or provide a more realistic triggering of game object, within the Backseat Playground game. (8 June, 2007) |  |
| What
happens during journeys? The paper Driving and “passengering”: notes on the ordinary organization of car travel, written by Brown, B., Laurier, E., Lorimer, H, Jones, O., Juhlin, O. et al, has been accepted to Mobilities. (8 June, 2007) | |
| The
production of live TV through mediated interaction On Friday the 20th of April Mathias Broth presents his studies of live television production. He studies the interactional process and focusses primarily on the mediated interaction between the director and the script in the control room, and the camera operators in the studio. (8 June, 2007) |
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| Two new
masters projects within MoreTV! We offer two new masters projects in the More TV! project. The first: Mobile VJing will specifically enable input of streaming video into a VJ-mixer [more info at exjobbspoolen]. The second: Mobile Cameraman will specifically focus on investigation and implementation of uplink streaming of video from a mobile phone to URL [more info at exjobbspoolen]. In general the More TV! Program investigate and develop new technologies for collaborative real-time editing of mobile video. The research is conducted at the Mobility studio, Interactive Institute, in Kista with our industrial partners Ericsson Research, SonyEricsson and TeliaSonera within the Mobile Life VinnExcellence Center. (8 May, 2007) |
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| New
people in mobility We have two new master students in the mobility studio. Peter Karlsson and Fredrik Kronqvist, both from the Department of Applied Information Technology, KTH. They will develop force feedback functionality for future Backseat Playground prototypes. (4 May, 2007) |
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| Research program on Mobile Life published Lars Erik Holmquist, Kristina Höök, Oskar Juhlin and Annika Waern will present “Mobile Life: A Research Foundation for Mobile Services” at LA Global Mobility Roundtable, in Los Angeles California in June. (4 May, 2007) |
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| More TV!
presented at Swedish Mobile TV workshop The project was presented at a workshop on mobile TV at the settopbox consortium at Linköping University. (30 March, 2007) |
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| Internship
at Ericsson Research Mattias Esbjörnsson has completed his internship at Ericsson Research , Usability & Interaction Lab. During October-December he carried out a study on consumer content creation within communities. (30 March, 2007) |
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| Collaborative
production & consumption of mobile TV The paper More TV! - Support for local and collaborative production and consumption of mobile TV, written by Arvid Engström, Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Cristian Norlin has been accepted to a workshop on Interactive Applications for Mobile TV. The workshop is held in association with EuroITV 2007. (9 March, 2007) |
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| Newsweek
comment Oskar Juhlin comment on marginal inclusion of viewers in decision on how the story unfolds in interactive TV for mass market, in the January 22nd issue. (9 March, 2007) |
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| New people
in mobility Johan Persson, student at department of computing science at Umeå University, will conduct his master thesis in the mobility studio. He will investigate the possibilities to develop an algorithm for determining the pointing direction of a mobile phone using the camera and a physical marker in the backseat playground project. (23 February, 2007) |
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| Metria
sponsors BSP Metria has decided to sponsor the Backseat Playground project with GIS data to enable demonstrations in the Kista area. (15 February, 2007) |
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| Anton
Gustafsson invited to the Geoware conference in Aarhus Anton Gustafsson, and the mobility studio, has been invited to present Backseat Playground and other projects on the Geoware conference in Aarhus the 7th of March. The presentation (from 31 minutes in the stream, with Internet Explorer only). (15 February, 2007) |
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| New people in mobility Etienne Thessman, student at media technology at KTH, will conduct his master thesis in the mobility studio. He will investigate the possibilities for players to create content in Backseat Playground. (9 February, 2007) |
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| New people in mobility We welcome Arvid Engström as a new member and researcher in the Studio. Arvid has studied at the media technology programme at KTH in Stockholm, and also studied film production at San Diego State University. He will focus on user content creation and new mobile technologies. (9 February, 2007) |
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| New people in mobility Joakim Formo joins the mobility studio. He is a MA-student from The Institute of Industrial Design at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He is currently working on his master thesis at the Mobility Studio, focusing on accidental distributed interaction mediated by mobile technology. (19 January, 2007) |
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| Publicity An article on Backseat Playground appears both in the paper and web edition of GPS World Magazine. (8 January, 2007) |
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| Liselott
Brunnberg and Alberto Frigo win internal design
competition Liselott´s and Alberto´s proposal for the design of the entrance in our new facilities in Kista was selected among eight proposals. (8 January, 2006) |
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| Congratulations Daniel Normark successfully defended his PhD thesis “Enacting mobility – Studies into the nature of road-related social interaction” at the Department of Sociology in Göteborg this Saturday. (13 December, 2006) |
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| Backseat
Playground publicity New Scientist Tech publishes an article about Backseat Playground. The project also appears on engadget. (30 November, 2006) |
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| Seminar
with Barry Brown December 20th The Mobility studio at Interactive Institute invites to a seminar with Barry Brown from Glasgow University. He develops a phenomenological analysis of the skills of gameplay using video of CounterStrike gameplaying. For more information please contact oskarj@tii.se. (22 November, 2006) |
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| Seminar
with Louise
Barkhuus "Unpacking television" Wednesday the 6th of December The Mobility studio at Interactive Institute invites to a seminar with Louise Barkhuus from Glasgow University on Wednesday the 6th of December, 13.00-15.00. The seminar presents a study of television practices among early adopters of personal hard-disk recorders (PVRs such as TiVo) and internet downloading of video. For more information please contact oskarj@tii.se. (22 November, 2006) |
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| Barry
Brown and
Louise Barkhuus guests in December The studio welcomes Barry Brown and Louise Barkhuus as guests during December. They are both researchers at Glasgow University and they are active in the Equator project. Their interest covers many areas within leisure computing and entertainment computing. (22 November, 2006) |
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| Ph D
defense Daniel Normark will defend his thesis "Enacting Mobility - Studies Into the Nature of Road-related Social Interaction" at the Department of Sociology in Göteborg, on Saturday the 9th of December. Opponent will be Eric Laurier from University of Edinburgh. (22 November, 2006) |
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| Press
coverage Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Alexandra Weilenmann´s article on the debate section of Dagens Nyheter led to a lot of attention in media in Sweden, some examples are: Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen (ledare) , Privata Affärer, Stockholm City, PS.se, SR lunchekot, SR Radio Örebro, SR P4 Extra, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, SVT Agenda, TV4, and as a comic strip in Metro (more occurrences can be found by google news). And in Norway, mobilen.no, siste, Radio Channel 24 3 i rett hjem. (20 November, 2006) |
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| Article
published on DN Debatt Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Alexandra Weilenmann publishes an article on the debate section of Dagens Nyheter. In the article they state that the previous reported risks with talking in the mobile phone while driving may be exaggerated. The results from the study [PDF] is published in International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. (7 November, 2006) |
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| Mobility
moves to Electrum in Kista, Stockholm The Mobility studio will be the first group from Interactive Institute, which will move to the Electrum-building in Kista north of Stockholm. We will utilize temporary facilities from the end of October, until the new office spaces are ready in February 2007. (16 October, 2006) |
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| New people
in mobility We have two new master thesis students in the mobility studio that will be with us the coming 6 months. Tasawar Khan is doing a master thesis project on converting the backseat playground to run over the 3G network. Johan Klövstedt is developing an algorithm for using user behaviour as a clue for detecting GIS objects of great intresst (also within backseat playground). (16 October, 2006) |
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master projects within Backseat Playground The project Authoring tool for narrative based pervasive games [PDF] is a first step to allow for public user content creation of the game environment in the Backseat Playground project [Exjobbspoolen]. The second project Motion tracking with a camera phone [PDF], aims at developing a program module that can sense a mobile phones physical orientation by using a the camera and a physical marker [Exjobsspolen]. (29 September, 2006) |
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| Mobile Life Center receives 10 years
funding from VINNOVA! The Mobile Life Center have been selected by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) to become a so-called VINN Excellence Center, funded by a total amount up to 210 MSEK (roughly 30 million USD). Our studio is one of four research groups which receive the grant. (21 June, 2006) |
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| The making
of public road signs The article Public road signs as intermediate interaction [PDF], written by Oskar Juhlin and Daniel Normark, will be published in a special issue of Space and Culture. It presents a study of road side inhabitants making and managing of road signs to communicate with passing car drivers. (21 June, 2006) |
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| Best paper
award! The paper Believable environments – Generating interactive storytelling in vast location-based pervasive games [PDF], written by Anton Gustafsson, John Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg, Oskar Juhlin and Marco Combetto, was awarded “Best Paper” at the SIG CHI Advances in Entertaiment Computing in Los Angeles, June 14-16. All prize winners. (21 June, 2006) |
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| Duration
of meetings important for design Oskar Juhlin’s and Mattias Östergren’s paper Time to meet face-to-face and device-to-device [PDF] has been accepted as short paper to the Mobile HCI conference in September 2006. The paper argues that temporality is an important dimension, which has to be accounted for when designing mobile face to face meeting support systems. (21 June, 2006) |
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| Masters project -
Pinpointing physical objects in mobile AR games The purpose of this master thesis is to examine possibilities and issues of pinpointing physical objects within a mobile augmented-reality (AR) game. More info can be found at: [PDF]. (25 September, 2006) |
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| Exjobb -
Using 3G networks for mobile AR games The purpose of this master thesis is to examine possibilities and issues with using 3G networks for mobile augmented-reality (AR) games. It will take its starting point in a case study on an existing game prototype called Backseat playground (BSP). More info can be found at: [PDF]. (25 September, 2006) |
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| Mobile Life Center receives 10 years
funding from VINNOVA! The Mobile Life Center at Stockholm University is one of 15 competence centers that have been selected by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA) to become a so-called VINN Excellence Center. Each center will receive up to 70 MSEK funding from VINNOVA over a period of 10 years. For Mobile Life, the Stockholm University and the industrial partners will contribute an equal amount each, bringing the total amount up to 210 MSEK (roughly 30 million USD). The center will be based at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) in Kista, and partners include SICS, KTH, Ericsson Research, TeliaSonera, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft Research, Municiplaity of Stockholm, Kista Science City, FOI and Stockholm Innovation and Growth. The Mobile Life Center will become a world-renowned focal point for research in mobile services and ubiquitous computing. It will adopt a fundamentally user-oriented perspective to design services for a sustainable web of work, leisure and ubiquitous technology we can call the mobile life. The Centre's academic, industrial and public partners will jointly work on strategically important projects that can provide a sustainable growth for Sweden. For more information, read the original research program submitted to VINNOVA. Mobile Life started in 2002 as a project funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (for more information, download the project's halfway report.) The Mobile Life Center will be an extension and expansion of the original Mobile Life project. The leaders of the center are Professor Kristina Höök, leader of the Interaction Laboratory at SICS and professor in Human-Machine Interaction at Stockholm University; Associate Professor Lars Erik Holmquist, leader of the Future Applications Lab at the Viktoria Institute; Associate Professor Oskar Juhlin, director of the Mobility Studio at the Interactive Institute; and Dr. Annika Waern, coordinator of the iPerg project as SICS and director of the Game Studio at the Interactive Institute. (21 June, 2006) |
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| Microsoft
Research extends collaboration Microsoft Research in Cambridge has decided to extend collaboration with the Studio and the funding for the Backseat Playground project. The extended funding will partly be used to investigate possibilities for user content creation within the existing concept. (21 June, 2006) |
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| Patricia’s
master presented Patricia Panqueva exhibit her master project [PDF], called “Glowing Citizens” at Volvo Showroom, Kungsträdgården Stockholm, between the 16th of June and July 2nd. The project was a collaboratin between Umeå Institute of Design and the Mobility studio. (7 June, 2006) |
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| Paper
accepted The short paper Backseat Playgrounds: Pervasive Storytelling in Vast Location Based Games [PDF], written by John Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg, Marco Combetto, Anton Gustafsson, and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to the 5th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2006) in Cambridge UK, the 20-22 September. (7 June, 2006) |
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| Funding The Swedish Strategic Research Foundation (SSF) has decided to prolong the funding of the Mobile Life programme, which is part of its IT research programme. The decision provides additional funding to the Mobility studio for the period of 2006 and 2007. (3 May, 2006) |
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| New
knowledge on phone handling on driving based field studies The article Field research methods to study interactional adaptation of drivers using mobile phones in traffic [PDF], written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Alexandra Weilenmann, has been accepted, pending minor revisions, to a special issue of the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction on “In-Use, In-Situ: Extending Field Research Methods.” The article presents ethnographic data which reveals ways in which drivers adapt phone handling to traffic, and vice versa. Based on such data, the authors discuss the validity of experimental studies of mobile phone use in traffic (18 April, 2006) |
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| Research
on Backseat Playground The paper Believable environments – Generating interactive storytelling in vast location based pervasive games [PDF] written by Anton Gustafsson, John Bichard, Liselott Brunnberg, Oskar Juhlin and Marco Combetto, has been accepted to SIGCHI Advances in Computer Entertainment 2006, which will take place June 14-16 in Hollywood USA. The paper discusses the importance of focussing on the design of “believable environments” within pervasive gaming and presents the Backseat Playground implementation. (18 April, 2006) |
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| Mobility
seminar On Thursday, the 20th of April, 14.00-16.00, Nyssim Lefford will hold a seminar. Nyssim will discuss how to make a game of the generative process in art. She is currently working at the Sonic studio at II. She has done a PhD on the perceptual and cognitive processes of music composers. Contact Oskar Juhlin for the text to the seminar. (10 April, 2006) |
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| Backseat
playground was made public The result of the Backseat Playgorund project was made public in Cambridge at Microsoft Research´s workshop called “Create, Play and Learn” the 4th of April. The prototype was also demonstrated at the conference “International Symposium on Intelligent Environments”, which was held in conjuction. (7 April, 2006) |
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| Initial
performance test of Backseat playground The complete implementation of the Backseat playground prototype was tested for the first time on Monday the 13th of March. The experience was very promising. When leaving the built areas of Lidingö, we directly encountered howling wolves in the woods. When we reported the event back to the field agents’ central command, they called us back and discussed what to do. However, we also encountered technical issues with the stability of the game, which has to be adressed before the user evaluation. (21 March, 2006) |
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| Congratulations Mattias Östergren successfully defended his PhD thesis Traffic Encounters - Drivers meeting face-to-face and peer-to-peer on the Department of Applied Information Technology, at the IT-university in Göteborg this Friday. (20 March, 2006) |
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| New
Mobility member Today Patricia Panqueva worked her first day in the studio. In her master thesis work she will investigate and design for the experience of traffic lights. Patricia is studying at Umeå Institute of Design. (16 February, 2006) |
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| PhD
thesis defence On Friday the 17th of March, 13.00, Mattias Östergren will defend his PhD thesis, Traffic Encounters - Drivers meeting face-to-face and peer-to-peer. The defence will take place at the IT-University in Göteborg, Forskningsgången 6, Torg 2 (2nd floor), House Patricia [map]. Faculty opponent is PhD Matthew Chalmers, Reader in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, UK. (1 February, 2006) |
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| Funding Vinnova has decided to to provide ”integrated” funding to the Backseat playground project through the programme ”IKT-anvädning”. The project will concern research into audio centric user interaction as well as public authoring concepts. (25 January, 2006) |
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| Mobility
seminar On Thursday, the 26th of January, 16.00-18.00, Mirjam Eladhari will hold a seminar. Mirjam will present her text: The Player’s journey - The conditions for character and identity development in massively multi player role-playing games. She is a PhD candidate at the the School of Computing at the University of Teesside, UK and works at the game research group at the Department of Technology, Art and New Media at Gotland University in Sweden. Contact Oskar Juhlin for the text to the seminar. (20 January, 2006) |
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| Newsletter
2005 Read the newsletter where we summarise our work during 2005 and thank our colleagues and friends. (3 January, 2006) |
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| Fieldwork
on rally spectators and the design of a mobile service accepted for
CHI2006 The CHI notes-submission Watching the cars go round and round: designing for active spectating [PDF], written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Barry Brown, Oskar Juhlin, Daniel Normark, Mattias Östergren and Eric Laurier has been accepted for CHI 2006 in Montréal. (21 December, 2005) |
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| Evaluation
of Road Rager will be published at Pervasive 2006 The paper Keep your eyes on the road and your finger on the trigger - Designing for mixed focus of attention in a mobile game for brief encounters [PDF], written by Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin, has been conditionally accepted for the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing in Dublin. (6 December, 2005) |
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| Research
on mobile phone use while driving in Canadian Press Mattias Esbjörnsson has been interviewed about his research on mobile phone use while driving. The article, L'ethnographie du téléphone en voiture, (in French) is available at [link]. (28 November, 2005) |
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| Invitation
to working seminar Mattias Östergren and Oskar Juhlin will present their text: ”Time to meet face-to-face and screen-to-screen” on Friday the 2nd December between 14.00 and 16.00. The text [PDF] will be available Monday the 28th of November. (16 November, 2005) |
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| "Final
seminar" Daniel Normark will present his thesis at a ”final seminar” on Tuesday the 15th November between 10.00 and 13.00 at the Department of Sociology in Göteborg. The address is Sprängkullsgatan 25, room F417. The final seminar is the last seminar before presenting the dissertation. Associate Professor Magnus Bergkvist from the Viktoria Institute will act as opponent. (7 November, 2005) |
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| "Final
seminar" Mattias Östergren will present his thesis at a ”final seminar” on Thursday 20 October between 13.00 and 15.00 at the Interactive Institute, Linnégatan 89b. The final seminar is the last seminar before presenting the dissertation. Staffan Björk from Trans-reality game laboratory at Interactive Institute and Interaction design at Chalmers, will act as opponent. (18 October, 2005) |
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Ordnance Survey, Lidingö Kommun, and MapInfo
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| Congratulations
to Mattias Esbjörnsson for succesful defence of Ph D thesis Mattias Esbjörnsson successfully defended his PhD thesis Enhanced social interaction in traffic on the Department of Applied Information Technology, at the IT-university in Göteborg on Friday. (26 September, 2005) |
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| PhD
thesis defence On Friday the 23rd of September, 14.00, Mattias Esbjörnsson will defend his PhD thesis, Enhanced Social Interaction in Traffic. The defence will take place at the IT-University in Göteborg, Forskningsgången 6, Torg 2 (2nd floor), House Patricia [map]. Faculty opponent is PhD Mark Perry, Dept. of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, UK. (9 September, 2005) |
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| Project
on "mySplittime" Niklas Scherp’s report on his project has been confirmated at KTH. Niklas has developed a Java programme called ”mySplittime”, based on specifications from the Rally-project, on a Nokia phone. (9 September, 2005) |
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| Seminar
with Marc Breviglieri and Magdalena Jarvin On Friday the 16th of September, 10.00-12.00, Marc Breviglieri and Magdalena Jarvin will hold a seminar. Marc will talk about "ease", its emotional savings and its own value, and the way that personnalizes and localized usage compose a kind of habitat. We consider that this kind of habitat is able to compose with public space and use of public things. In this case, we have to think in a different way the opposition beetween public and private. Magdalena Jarvin will present research done as part of her post doc in Canada. It consists of interviews and observations in Ottawa and Paris, about the influence of Internet on the purchase of automobiles. Texts in French are available, contact Oskar Juhlin. (26 August, 2005) |
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| Seminar
with Alex Taylor Alex Taylor held a seminar on Surface ecologies: moving beyond PC-based computing in the home. Background texts for the seminar are available at: [1] and [2]. (18 August, 2005) |
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| Master
thesis Elias Arnestrand has presented his master thesis Communicate Traffic Related Information. The text is available from the publications page. (18 August, 2005) |
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| John
Paul Bichard at Dorkbot - shtlm meeting #3 John Paul Bichard gave a talk at crac, about his work, which covers the relationship between the game space and the 'real'. More info can be found at dorkbot. (11 August, 2005) |
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| Member
of the new competence center ”Transport telematics R&D Group
Sweden” The Mobility studio joins the newly founded virtual competence center ” Transport telematics R&D Group Sweden”. The Center has recently signed a contract with the Swedish National Road Adminstration to enable sustained research and development in the area the next years to come (See press release). (10 August, 2005) |
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| Research
on the social use of mobile phones in Swedish press Several Swedish news papers (Norrländska Socialdemokraten, Piteå-Tidningen and Arbetarbladet) reports on Alexandra Weilenmann's research on the use of mobile phones and especially on collaboration and social aspects of the technology. (9 August, 2005) |
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| New
uses for mobile pervasive games Oskar Juhlin and Matthew Chalmers will present a position paper on lessons learned for CSCW systems to support collaboration in vast work sites at the ECSCW'05 workshop on Computer Games & CSCW in Paris, September 2005. (29 July, 2005) |
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Accepted position paper |
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| Panel
participation Daniel Normark and Oskar Juhlin will attend the Urban Spaces Private Quarters panel presenting their work: Presenting and representing roadsides: the practise of mounting and removing private signs along road at the International conference Technisierung / Ästhetisierung - Technological and Aesthetic (Trans)Formations of Society in Darmstadt (Germany) during 12 to 14 October 2005. (30 June, 2005) |
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| Mobility
in media The Newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports on the RoadTalk prototype, in an article on the SITI exhibition. Ny Teknik reports on the Soundpryer prototype (in Swedish only). (30 June, 2005) |
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| Guest
lecture at Södertörns högskola Alexandra Weilenmann will give a talk on "Där vi sågs sist - om mobilsamtal, plats och positionerings-teknik" at Södertörns högskola, 11th of May. (9 May, 2005) |
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| Seminar
at Umeå University Mattias Esbjörnsson will give a talk at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, 4th of May. (29 April, 2005) |
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| New
employees in Mobility Mobility expands the staff when John Bichard and Christoffer Schmiterlöw join the Backseat Playground project. John will work particularly with game design as well as other parts of the project. Christoffer will investigate into technologies for user input. (29 April, 2005) |
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| Funding
from SSF The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has decided to financially support the commercialization of the Backseat games projects. (22 April, 2005) |
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| Backseat
Playground in the press The Swedish journals Dagens Industri and Computer Sweden reports on the Microsoft Research funding of the Backseat Playground project (in Swedish only). (12 April, 2005) |
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| Funding
from Microsoft Research Microsoft Research has decided to fund the Backseat Playground project with 80 000 Euro during a year. The project was selected, with seven others, from 160 applicants from Europe, on the call “Fun, play and creativity”. See press release in Swedish (11 April, 2005) |
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| Seminars
at Brunel University and Lancaster University Oskar Juhlin presented research at a public lecture at Department of Information Systems and Computing at Brunel University, London as well as at the Computing Department at Lancaster University. The talks were part of a three weeks visit funded by the British Royal Academy of Engineering and the Vodafone Foundation. (5 April, 2005) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Mobile Phone Talk in Context written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Alexandra Weilenmann has been accepted to Context'05. (28 March, 2005) |
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| Read
about Daniel Normarks research Daniel Normark is interviewed in Metro [link] (Swedish only) about his research on young passengers behaviour in the vicinity of bus stops. (7 March, 2005) |
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| Read
about the "interactive road" in Vodafone Receiver The article "Beyond just getting there – the interactive road" is published in the online journal Vodafone Receiver No 12. Oskar Juhlin discusses the experiential qualities in traffic encounters and how these could be augmented by new mobile technologies. (3 March, 2005) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Road Talk: A roadside location-dependent audio message system for car drivers written by Mattias Östergren and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to Journal of Mobile Multimedia. (24 February, 2005) |
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| Grant
from Nordic Road Association Daniel Normark received a grant from the Nordic Road Association to conduct a pre-study on the behaviour of young passengers in the vicinity of bus stops. (10 February, 2005) |
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| New
mobility member Today Elias Arnestrand worked his first day in the studio. In his master thesis work he will investigate speed trap SMS services. Elias is studying at Uppsala University (STS-engineer). (8 February, 2005) |
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| Backseat
Playground The Backseat Playground website is now up and running and the project appears on more than 20 blogs. A few examples are: near near future, Smart Mobs, Engadget, Thinking Machine and Technogoggles. (26 January, 2005) |
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| Backseat
Playground Backseat Playground is a new mobility studio project launched in collaboration with digital artist John Paul Bichard. It is a mobile gaming research project that will enable kids to play with the world outside their window from the back seat of a car and it’s scope and topic draws strongly on two previous prototypes developed within the studio, i.e. ‘Backseat Gaming’ and ‘Road Rager’. The new project focus at 4 core areas: Episodic Narratives, Real World Game Engine, De-focusing technology and Fuzzy Learning. (26 January, 2005) |
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| Jury
member Siemens Design Challenge Alexandra Weilenmann of Mobility was one of the jury members selecting this year's winner of Siemens Design Challenge. The five finalists and winner will be presented on Wednesday 26 February. (25 January, 2005) |
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| New
mobility member Yesterday Madlene Lindström worked her first day in the studio. She will conduct her master thesis work in the Rally project. Madlene is studying Interaction Design at Umeå Institute of Design. (18 January, 2005) |
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| Accepted
paper The full paper From Ethnography on Infrastructure Management to Initial User Feedback on PlaceMemo written by Mattias Esbjörnsson has been accepted to Personal and Ubiquitous Computing: Theme issue on Interactive Mobile Information Access. (16 December, 2004) |
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| Seminar
with John Paul Bichard John Paul Bichard, will hold a seminar introducing his work and especially Urban Tapestries and the Evidencia series on hybrid spaces (more info). Wednesday the 22nd of December, 15.00-17.00. For those of you who want to attend the seminar, please contact Oskar Juhlin. (15 December, 2004) |
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| Sound
pryer in forthcoming book on new music technology A book chapter, called Car Drivers using Sound Pryer – Field trials on Shared Music Listening in Traffic Encounters, written by Mattias Östergren and Oskar Juhlin will appear in the forthcoming book from Kluwer Academic Press "Reinventing music: Social and cultural impacts of new music technology." The book is edited by Kenton O’Hara and Barry Brown. (9 December, 2004) |
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| Alexandra
Weilenmann on Swedish Radio The 1st of December, Alexandra Weilenmann was interviewed on her research on mobile phone use, in Radio P5 Stockholm. (7 December, 2004) |
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| Sound
Pryer on several blogs Articles on Sound Pryer are available on several blogs: engadget, networked perfomance blog and near near future. (30 November, 2004) |
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| Seminar
with David Martin David Martin, Lancaster University, will hold a seminar with the following title: Ethnographic fieldwork on Medical Information Systems (abstract). Tuesday the 30th of November, 15.00-17.00. A text will be made available for those of you who want to attend the seminar. Please contact Oskar Juhlin. (23 November, 2004) |
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| "Final
seminar" Mattias Esbjörnsson will present his thesis at a ”final seminar” on Wednesday December 1st between 13.00 and 15.30 at the Interactive Institute, Karlavägen 108. The final seminar is the last seminar before presenting the dissertation. Dave Martin from Lancaster University will act as opponent. (23 November, 2004) |
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| Seminar
with Giulio Jacucci Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, will hold a seminar with the following title: Interaction as Performance: Cases of Configuring Physical Interfaces in Mixed Media (abstract). Tuesday the 23 th of November, 16.00-17.30. A text will be made available for those of you who want to attend the seminar. Please contact Oskar Juhlin. (19 November, 2004) |
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| New
publication Alexandra Weilenmann has published an article on how teenagers share mobile phones: "Kan inte du svara?" Om hur ungdomar samsas om sina mobiltelefoner, in Locus 2/04. (8 November, 2004) |
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| New
mobility members The studio has grown with two new members. Henrik Andersson and Christoffer Schmiterlöw will make their masters thesis, exploring the use of accelerometers for interaction in mobile games. (4 November, 2004) |
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| Invitation
to Brunel University Oskar Juhlin is invited as "Senior Visiting Fellow in Communications" to Senior Lecturer Mark Perry and the Department of Information Systems and Computing at Brunel University, London during March 2005. The visit is funded by the British Royal Academy of Engineering and the Vodafone Foundation. (2 November, 2004) |
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| Read
about Sound Pryer David Pescovitz writes about Sound Pryer under the title “Wireless Music's New Social Sound” in TheFeature. (22 October, 2004) |
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| Invited
lecture Oskar Juhlin has been invited to give a talk about the Interactive Road at Andicom 2004 in Cartagena Colombia between the 20th and 22nd November. (14 October, 2004) |
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| Telematics
valley conference Oskar Juhlin has been invited to speak on augmenting the experience of road use by mobile services at the Telematics Valley Conference in Göteborg, which takes places between the 5th and the 7th of September (5 October, 2004) |
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| "Exjobb" The studio provide a second "exjobb" proposal on this page (not available any more). (22 September, 2004) |
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| U.K.
trip The Mobility studio has been doing field work at the British Rally in Wales between the 16th and 19th of September. The trip also included a visit and short talk at Microsoft Research in Cambridge as well as a visit to Intel Research. (21 September, 2004) |
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| "Exjobb" The studio will provide an "exjobb" proposal on this page (not available any more). (14 September, 2004) |
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| "Final
seminar" Mattias Esbjörnsson will present his thesis at a ”final seminar” on Wednesday December 1st between 13.00 and 15.30 at the Interactive Institute, Karlavägen 108. The final seminar is the last seminar before presenting the dissertation. Dave Martin from Lancaster University will act as opponent. (14 September, 2004) |
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| Seminar
at Computer Science in Glasgow Oskar Juhlin ended his five weeks visit as a guest researcher at Glasgow University by giving a seminar at the Department for Computer Science. (30 August, 2004) |
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| Seminar
at Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham Oskar Juhlin presented the research in the Mobility studio during a seminar at the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham University. (20 August, 2004) |
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| Accepted
paper The full paper The Road Rager - Making Use of Traffic Encounters in a Mobile Multiplayer Game written by Liselott Brunnberg has been accepted to The third international conference on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia (MUM2004), College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. October 27 - 29, 2004 . (16 August, 2004) |
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about Backseat Gaming Henry Jenkins and Kurt Squire writes about playing our back seat games and other things under the title “Applied Game Theory Big in Sweden-Discovering truly innovative gaming in the least likely places” in Computer Games Magazine, August 2004. (3 August, 2004) |
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| New
project with Uddeholm Swedish Rally The Swedish Rally, which is part of the World Rally Series, is our largest national sports event. The spectators travel to the tracks to see the amazing speed of the vehicles as the drive through the narrow roads. But the experience is restricted since the speed of the cars allows the racing drivers to cover a large area, and they pass an individual road section with its spectators during a brief moment. The purpose of the prestudy is to generate new and interesting mobile service concepts to increase the spectators’ experience of a rally event. The studio will conduct field work at rally events and engage in concept development. (2 August, 2004) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Coping with Cars and Co-presence at Petrol Stations written by Daniel Normark, has been accepted to the Coping with complexity Workshop in Bath. (2 August, 2004) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper The Road Rager - Making use of Traffic Encounters to Enhance a Mobile Gaming Experience written by Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to Games and Social Networks: A Workshop on Multiplayer Games at the British HCI 2004 conference. (2 August, 2004) |
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| Road
Rager user test The Road Rager game was field tested in Stockholm the 18th and 19th of June. Twelve kids between seven and eleven got to try to challenge other kids in nearby cars in the afternoon traffic. (21 June, 2004) |
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| Prize
for best exhibition Mobility, and our research partners from FAL at the Viktoria Institute, Social Computing at SICS and DSV/Stockholm University, won the prize for best exhibition at SITI’s yearly conference the 17th of June. The participants at the conference gave us thirty-nine of their votes, which was twenty votes more than the second exhibition. (21 June, 2004) |
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Mobility as the future of car entertainment
in Computer Sweden, June 2004 |
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| Accepted
paper The full paper "I'm waiting where we met last time": Exploring everyday positioning practices to inform design has been accepted to NordiCHI 2004. The paper is written by Alexandra Weilenmann and Peter Leuchovius. (1 June, 2004) |
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| Presenting
Sound Pryer on 1st Mobile Music Technology Workshop Mattias Östergren is invited to present Sound Pryer at the First International Workshop on Mobile Music Technology (Viktoria Institute, Göteborg). (24 May, 2004) |
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| Mobility
promotes Julie Andreyev and her colleagues launches an interesting live art project, beginning the 24th of May, that focus on the highway experience at splintermind. (24 May, 2004) |
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| “The
Future is Sweden” and Backseat gaming on www.joystick101.org “The Pocket PC in my hands, covered in strange purply plastic, beeped and whistled as our van passed an ancient oak tree in the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. "Grab the documents, quick!" shouted professor Oscar Juhlin riding shotgun. I flailed the Pocket PC in the air, desperately snatching for virtual documents. Squirming in the air, I caught two documents. Good enough - now on to the docks, where we hoped to find some undercover operatives. Read on for more of my trip to Sweden to explore the Swedish mobile gaming scene.” Read more. (24 May, 2004) |
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| Docent
lecture Oskar Juhlin will give his “docent lecture” with the title “On Private Road Signs in Sweden and Canada – Informing Design of Public Location Based Message Systems” on the 2nd of June between 13.00 and 14.00. The presentation will take place at the IT-university, Lindholmen, Göteborg (18 May, 2004) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Sound Pryer: Adding Value to Traffic Encounters with Streaming Audio written by Mattias Östergren, has been accepted to ICEC'2004. (10 May, 2004) |
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| Accepted
papers The paper Implications of Speed Trap Services for Designing Roadside-Location-Dependent Messengers written by Mattias Östergren and The Road Rager - Making Use of Traffic Encounters in a Mobile Multiplayer Game written by Liselott Brunnberg, have been accepted to IRIS27. (10 May, 2004) |
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| Seminar
at mobility with Canadian artist Julie Andreyev the 18th of May Julie Andreyev is Associate Professor in the Integrated Media and Digital Visual Arts areas at the Emily Carr Institute of Art, Design & Media. Her work is influenced by forms within popular entertainment and car cultures, and interactive, mobile technologies. The most recent projects involve multi-media interactive cars. (29 April, 2004) |
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| Seminar
at mobility with Solveig Marie Smedstaden the 14th of May Solveig Marie Smedstaden from the Univeristy of Bergen, Norway, gave a seminar on her research on pervasive and mobile games. (29 April, 2004) |
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| Accepted
abstract The abstract Rerouting the agency of technology-in-use - STS and the resurrection of the mundane written by Prof. Hans Glimell and Daniel Normark has been accepted to 4S-EASST Conference, to be held in Paris in August 2004. (27 April, 2004) |
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| The
Guardian The research on mobile games, performed by the mobility studio appears in a recent issue of The Guardian. (Issue date 22nd of April) (23 April, 2004) |
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| New
studio description Get a comprehensive overview of our research theme and available prototype services like Hocman, Placememo, Soundpryer and the Back Seat Games [PDF]. (29 March, 2004) |
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| Master
thesis Åsa Moum has presented her master thesis: Once Upon a Time... - Interactive Storytelling in a Context-Dependent Mobile Game. The thesis is available at the publications page. (23 March, 2004) |
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| Successful
technical test of Road Rager The multiplayer version of Back Seat Gaming was successfully tested this weekend. The prototype enables gaming in traffic encounters and features a specifically designed user interface, which make the gamer engage in the brief meeting on the road. (19 March, 2004) |
| Invitation
to journal Daniel Normark has been invited to revise his paper "Tending to mobile societies" that was presented at Alternative Mobility Futures Conference'2004 for a special Issue of the Environment and Planning A. The issue will contain revised and updated versions of a few of the best papers presented at Alternative Mobility Futures Conference'2004. (20 February, 2004) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Traffic Encounters and Hocman - Associating Motorcycle Ethnography with Design written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren, has been accepted to a special issue of Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. (4 February, 2004) |
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| New
Scientist Mattias Östergrens work on Sound Pryer appears in a recent issue of New Scientist. (Issue date 24th of January, page 20.) (2 February, 2004) |
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| Congratulations Daniel Fällman, at the Tools studio, successfully defended his thesis ”In romance with the materials of mobile interaction” at the Department of informatics on Umeå University. Oskar Juhlin was a member of the grading committee. (26 January, 2004) |
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| Lecturing
at IPKO Institute, Kosovo Alexandra Weilenmann has given a short course on how to study the use of mobile technology at the IPKO Institute in Prishtina, Kosovo. Among other things, the students did a short observational study of the public use of mobile phones in downtown Prishtina. (16 December, 2003) |
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| Seminar
at University of Glasgow Mattias Esbjörnsson gave a seminar at the department of Computer Science, Glasgow University. He presented the study on mobile phone use while driving, and the study on motorcycling. (11 December, 2003) |
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at University of Glasgow Alexandra Weilenmann gave a seminar at the department of Computer Science, Glasgow University. Her talk was named: studying mobile technologies in the field. (11 December, 2003) |
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| Seminar
at Karlstad University Alexandra Weilenmann gave a seminar at the department of Media and Communication Studies, Karlstad University. She talked about her studies of mobile phone use. (4 December, 2003) |
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| Providing
future services for road users - Strategies from a retail perspective The report Providing future services for road users - Strategies from a retail perspective, written by Oskar Juhlin, Mattias Östergren and Mattias Esbjörnsson, will be presented at Statoil, Warsaw, Poland. (25 November, 2003) |
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| New
journal contribution on mobile phone use In the recent volume of Environment and Planning A, Alexandra Weilenmann contributes with a paper on the ways in which place, availability and activity are oriented to in mobile phone conversations. This paper forms part of a special issue on Technology and mobility. Eric Laurier, University of Glasgow, is the guest editor of this special issue, published by Pion Ltd. More information about the journal. (25 November, 2003) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Sound Pryer Field Trials: Learning About Adding Value to Driving written by Mattias Östergren has been accepted to the workshop Designing for ubicomp in the wild: Methods for exploring the design of mobile and ubiquitous services, at MUM'2003. (24 November, 2003) |
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| Accepted
paper The paper Using ethnography or technology probe: Understanding children's future use of roadside interaction written by Daniel Normark Vesterlind has been accepted to the workshop Designing for ubicomp in the wild: Methods for exploring the design of mobile and ubiquitous services, at MUM'2003. (24 November, 2003) |
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| Online proceedings The article Mobility and Social Spatiality, written by Daniel Vesterlind and Mattias Esbjörnsson, is now available in the online publication: "Transforming Spaces - The topological turn in technology studies" edited by Mikael Hård, Andreas Lösch and Dirk Verdicchio. (20 November, 2003) |
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| Accepted bookchapter The paper The Mobile Workplace: Collaboration in a Vast Setting written by Daniel Vesterlind and Mattias Esbjörnsson has been accepted to the book The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories & Supportive Technologies, edited by Mikael Wiberg. (15 November, 2003) |
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| Case study of Botfigthers,
a location-based game Most of our contributions to the EU project "Mobile Gaming Industry and Culture (Mgain)" is now completed. Liselott Brunnberg's case study of "It's Alive"'s Botfighter, a pervasive location-based mobile game played via SMS, is now available. The case study is included in the report Deliverable D4.2.1 Emerging and Future Mobile Entertainment Technologies. All reports from the project are public and available at [www.mgain.org]. (13 Oktober, 2003) |
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| Master thesis Kristina Hulterström has presented her master thesis: Witches, Warlocks and Traffic Encounters - Designing the Interaction for an ad hoc multiplayer gaming experince. The thesis is available at the publications page. (10 Oktober, 2003) |
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| Invitation to journal We have been invited to revise our paper on "Motorbikers using Hocman - Field Trials on Mobile Interaction" that was presented at Mobile HCI'2003 for a special Issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Journal. The issue will contain revised and updated versions of a few of the best papers presented at Mobile HCI 2003. (10 Oktober, 2003) |
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| Panel at Universeum Today Alexandra Weilenmann participates in a panel on mobile phones, at the science museum Universeum, in Göteborg. (24 September, 2003) |
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| Master thesis Anton Gustafsson has presented his master thesis: PlaceMemo: A Prototype of a Context-aware Information System. The thesis is available at the publications page. (24 September, 2003) |
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| Workshop at MUM'2003 A workshop on Designing for ubicomp in the wild: Methods for exploring the design of mobile and ubiquitous services will take place during MUM'2003. The workshop is organised as part of the SSF-funded project "Mobile Services" and the VINNOVA-funded project "Sustainable Mobile Services". (23 September, 2003) |
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| Successful test of Backseat
Gaming v. 2 prototype The second version of the Backseat Gaming prototype has been successfully tested [wmv]. The prototype makes use of contingent encounters with other car travelling players as a resource in the game. Contingent encounters are central in the highway experience. By creating an ad hoc peer-to-peer multiplayer game we explore how contingent encounters and the motion of the accompanying traffic can be used in an engaging mobile gaming experience. (27 August, 2003) |
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| Towards commersialisation The Mobility studio at II and ITGP signs two individual agreements based on the prototype services “placememos” and “backseat gaming v.1”. The agreement provides ITGP with an 180-day exclusive royalty-free licence option for the technology for some or all fields of use. (27 August, 2003) |
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Best paper award |
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Workshop on business
models för P2P mobile service |
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| Accepted paper The paper Motorcycling and social interaction - Design for the enjoyment of brief traffic encounters written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren has been accepted to Group'2003. (17 July, 2003) |
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| Accepted paper The paper Designing for physical interaction and contingent encounters in a mobile gaming situation written by Liselott Brunnberg and Kristina Hulterström has been accepted to the workshop on real world user interfaces at MobileHCI'2003. (9 July, 2003) |
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| Workshop on: Movement in the
city Mobility together with Barry Brown organized an international workshop on Movement in the city. Apart from researchers in the mobile life research project, it was attended by: Sara Berg, Umeå University, Eric Laurier, University of Glasgow, Lesh Parameswaran, Philips Design, Mark Perry, Brunel University, Alex Taylor, DWRC University of Surrey and Kalle Toiskallio, Helsinki University of Technology. (30 June, 2003) |
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| Svensk Form Liselott Brunnbergs contribution with the Backseat Gaming project at Open doors, Doors of perception, appears in the latest issue of Svensk Form. (27 June, 2003) |
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| Statoil and Ideas That Go
Ping Further to our collaboration on the Digital Services R&D Pre-study with Statoil ASA and the interest from Statoil Retail in Backseat Gaming we will prepare a detailed Field Trial plan. We will do this together with our productisation partner company Ideas That Go Ping to help us work through the issues and provide detail based on its experience in taking products to market. (25 June, 2003) |
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| Government investigation The government investigation on mobile phone conversations in cars, where Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Esbjörnsson contributed, is now available: Mobiltelefonerande i trafiken -Vägverkets utredning om användning av mobiltelefoner och andra IT-system under körning, Publ. 2003:91 [PDF]. Esbjörnsson, M. and Juhlin, O. (2003) Combining mobile phone conversations and driving- studying a mundane activity in its naturalistic setting. In Patten, C.J.D. (Ed.) Vetenskaplig rapportsamling. Publikation 2003:92 Borlänge: Vägverket. (24 June, 2003) |
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| Strategic alliance agreement Ideas That Go Ping has signed a strategic alliance agreement with the Interactive Institute. ITGP will review existing results or technologies, specifically in the Mobility studio, to gauge their potential for development into successful commercialisable products. (10 June, 2003) |
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| Program committee Oskar Juhlin is a member of the program committee for MUM'2003, 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. The conference will be held in Linköping/Norrköping, Sweden, 10-12 December 2003. (23 May, 2003) |
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| Accepted paper The paper Combining Mobile Phone Conversations and Driving - Studying a Mundane Activity in its Naturalistic Setting written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to ITS'2003. (23 May, 2003) |
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| Accepted papers The paper Shared spaces shared responsibility: designing for non-obstructive browsing written by Daniel Normark Vesterlind, and the paper Adding value to traffic encounters: a design rationale for mobile ad hoc computing services written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren, have been accepted to IRIS'26. (14 May, 2003) |
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| Accepted abstract The abstract Tending to mobile societies written by Daniel Normark Vesterlind has been accepted to Alternative Mobility Futures Conference, to be held at Lancaster University, 9-11 January 2004. (7 May, 2003) |
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| Statoil ASA engages in the
studio Statoil ASA has decided to become a studio partner for the rest of 2003. Our collaboration will include e.g. formulation of an IT-strategy for a petrol station retailer informed by the findings of our research. We will also pursue several workshops to discuss potential future services for road users. The studio embraces the collaboration, which is considered critical for the success of our vision to increase interaction on the roads. (2 May, 2003) |
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| Guest researcher Barry Brown, from Glasgow University, will be a guest researcher in the Mobility studio during May and June. Barry is interested in social science approaches to new technology, in particular those which use an ethnographic approach, and focus on the details of technology in use. He has also worked at Hewlett-Packard's research lab in Bristol. [http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~barry/] (16 April, 2003) |
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| Accepted paper The paper Mobile Bikers using Hocman - Field Trials on Mobile Interaction, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren has been accepted to Mobile HCI'03. (15 April, 2003) |
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| Presentation at the CHIPS-seminar Mattias Östergren held the presentation Traffic Encounters - Opportunities for Wireless and Handheld Computing, at the CHIPS-seminar: Scenarios of Mobility. The seminar was held at the University of Bradford. (14 April, 2003) |
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| Accepted paper The paper Movement and Spatiality in a Gaming Situation - Boosting Mobile Computer Games with the Highway Experience, written by Liselott Brunnberg and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to Interact'2003. (28 March, 2003) |
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| New mobility member Today Kristina Hulterström worked her first day in the mobility studio. She will write her master thesis in a forthcoming project. (25 March, 2003) |
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| Placememo presented at a workshop Oskar Juhlin presented the placememo-project at a mobile IT-workshop organised by Statoil Research Centre in Trondheim. (17 March, 2003) |
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| Succesfull test of the Soundpryer-prototype The Soundpryer-prototype is capable of streaming music to other Soundpryer-units in the proximity. The movie-clip [WMV] contains an example where the passing car receives streaming music from another Soundpryer-unit by the roadside. (10 March, 2003) |
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| The SITI conference At the yearly SITI conference, the 6th of February, the mobility studio will present their recent work. The Placememo- and the Soundpryer-prototype will be demonstrated. Oskar Juhlin will give a conference presentation [PDF] of the Biketalk project, where he introduces the Hocman-prototype. (6 February, 2003) |
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| New mobility members The Mobility studio welcomes Anders Back, Jesper Dahlqvist and Håkan Normark. They will pursue a project in the Mobility studio as part of their studies at Industrial Economics at KTH. The project will investigate commercial and organisational aspects of mobile ad hoc network services like Hocman and Soundpryer. (3 February, 2003) |
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| New mobility member Today Benjamin Özmen worked his first day in the mobility studio. He will write his master thesis in a forthcoming project. (3 February, 2003) |
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| SITI winter conference performances The Mobility studio will present research at the yearly SITI winter conference on the 6th of February. The presentation will include a specially designed version of the completed Placememo-prototype. This version is designed to work in indoor settings. We will also present the Soundpryer prototype for the first time ever. Finally, Oskar Juhlin will give a conference presentation of the Hocman project. It is possible to register for the conference at the SITI website. (20 January, 2003) |
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| "Exjobb" The studio will provide a sample of "exjobb" proposals on this page (not available). (13 February, 2003) |
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| Best paper award Mattias Esbjörnsson, Mattias Östergren and Oskar Juhlin won the Best Paper Award at the 1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquituous Multimedia in Oulu, Finland last week. They presented the paper The Hocman Prototype - Fast motorbikers and ad hoc networking. The next conference will be hosted by the S:t Anna Institute in Norrköping/Linköping, Sweden, and the third conference will take place in USA. (15 December, 2002) |
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| Industrial partners Mobility initiates collaboration with Gatespace. Gatespace is one of the pioneers in the market of telematic services for road users and offers tools, products and end-to-end solutions for Telematics Service. (15 December, 2002) |
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| Amigo-workshop Oskar Juhlin presented research at the Amigo-workshop (Ambient Intelligence to Go) in Linköping the 9th of December. The Amigo project is organised by Ericsson Research, the S:t Anna Institute et al.. (10 December, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper The Hocman Prototype - Fast Motor Bikers and Ad Hoc Networking, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren has been accepted to MUM 2002. (7 November, 2002) |
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| Technical progress The SoundPryer-prototype is now capable of streaming music to other SoundPryer-units in the proximity. (5 November, 2002) |
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| Doors of Perception Liselott Brunnberg will participate at the Doors of Perception 7. She will present Backseat Gaming in the Open Doors Design Grand Prix. (29 October, 2002) |
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| Workshop with Statoil, Telenor
& Norsk Tipping Mobility will perform a joint workshop with Statoil, Telenor and Norsk Tipping on the 24th of October. The workshop include a demonstration of our prototypes along the roads of Stockholm. (18 October, 2002) |
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| Mobility in Forbes A sample of ongoing projects in the Mobility studio are mentioned in a recent issue of Forbes. The article focus on wireless IT-services developed for cars. (15 October, 2002) |
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| Prototype demonstrations Backseat Gaming, Hocman, Placememo and SoundPyer have all been demonstrated during a studio-evaluation. (11 October, 2002) |
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| Hocman testing During this week the Hocman prototype has been succesfully tested. Six motorcyclists participated in the test. (25 September, 2002) |
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| Master thesis Anders Liljedal received the highest grade on his master thesis: Design Implications for Context Aware Mobile Games. The thesis is available at the publications page. (16 September, 2002) |
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| NRS Seminar on mobile services Mattias Esbjörnsson and Mattias Östergren will present their work [PPT] at the NRS seminar (Nordiskt Radioseminarium) on mobile services, 10th - 11th of October. (13 September, 2002) |
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| The MobileLife-research collaboration
kicks-off The MobileLife-collaboration between Mobility at II, Social Computing at SICS and FAL at the Viktoria Institute started with a two-day workshop in the Stockholm archipelago between the 11th and 12th of September [photos]. A number of joint activities were planned. Three joint activities for all the researchers are already planned. First, another joint workshop together with visits to our researchers in our international scientific board in England. This workshop will take place between the 30th of January and the 1st of February 2003. Secondly, a meeting with our industrial partners in conjunction with the yearly SITI conference the 6th of february 2003. Thirdly, a joint workshop in conclusion to a joint participation to the CHI-conference between the 6th and 10th of April 2003. (13 September, 2002) |
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| SITI Conference The mobility studio will present their work at the yearly SITI conference the 6th of February, 2003. (13 September, 2002) |
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| News on funding Today, the EU Commission signed the Contract with the MGain Consortium (Mobile Gaming Industry and Culture). The Mobility studio will contribute with studies regarding mobile gaming from the perspectives of game concepts, technology and business structures. The Mgain projects is funded through the IST programme and consists of European researchers also from Universities in Helsinki, Manchester, Central Lancashire, Oulu, Linköping, Bergen and Turkku. (30 August, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The position-paper Issues of Spontaneous Collaboration and Mobility, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Mattias Östergren has been accepted to the workshop: Supporting Spontaneous Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Settings at UBICOMP'2002. (27 August, 2002) |
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| Initial test of SoundPryer An early version of the SoundPryer-prototype was tested last week. Findings from this test will inform the design of the interface. (26 August, 2002) |
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| Doctoral Colloquium at CSCW The position-paper: Application Oriented Research on Leisure- and Work-Activities in a Truly Mobile Setting, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson has been accepted to the doctoral colloquium at CSCW. (26 August, 2002) |
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| Master thesis Mile Magdic and Peter Sjöstrand received the highest grade on their master thesis: The Petrol Station - A Hot Spot Along the Road. Tutor: Daniel Vesterlind. The thesis is available at the publications page. (15 August, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper Challenges and Opportunities for the Design and Evaluation of Mobile Applications, by Lars Erik Holmquist, Kristina Höök, Oskar Juhlin, and Per Persson has been accepted for the workshop "Main Issues in Designing Interactive Mobile Services" in conjunction with the conference Mobile HCI 2002. The conference will take place in Pisa, Italy between September 17th and 20th. (14 August, 2002) |
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| Workshop at IRIS Oskar Juhlin and Alexandra Weilenmann (from the Mobile Informatics group at the Viktoria Institute) arranged a successful workshop on: Supporting Social Interaction in public places at the IRIS conference. (14 August, 2002) |
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| Paper presentation Liselott Brunnberg made her first major presentation at the SIGGRAPH conference in Texas. She succesfully presented the backseat gaming project and the first prototype at the sketches and applications section. (2 August, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper SoundPryer: Joint Music Listening on the Road, written by Fredrik Axelsson and Mattias Östergren has been accepted as a poster at UBICOMP'2002. (1 August, 2002) |
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| Great news on funding! The Mobility studio, together with the Humle-lab at SICS and the Future Applications Lab at the Viktoria Institute, has been granted 19 million SEK (around 2.000.000 Euro) over a three year period (See press release from the foundation for strategic research). The grant will be used for research in the area of mobile application oriented design. The three groups will form a virtual center for mobile services. (18 June, 2002) |
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| Guest researcher The Scottish geographer Eric Laurier, with a special interest in ethnographies of car use, visited the studio during a week in June. (17 June, 2002) |
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| News on new project The National Road Administration have decided to fund the project "Car Drivers' use of Mobile Phones - An Evaluation of Current Social Practice to Inform Design of New Services. The project, including ethnographic fieldwork, will run during 2002. (10 June, 2002) |
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| The mobile minister The mobile minister is an ongoing project at the mobility studio. A short summary could be found at Computer Sweden (in swedish only). (3 June, 2002) |
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| Seminar on mobile services Oskar Juhlin presented ongoing projects at a seminar arranged by NITA. A short summary could be found at Computer Sweden (in swedish only). (3 June, 2002) |
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| News on funding Vinnova has decided to fund our project "Sustainable Research on Mobile Services". It is a collaboration between Mobility and Future Applications Lab at the Viktoria Institute, and the Humle-lab at SICS. The project will run during 2003. (24 May, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper Making Motorbikers Come Together - Fast Moving Users and Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren has been accepted to IRIS25'2002. (10 May, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper Finding a Space for the Mobile Workplace, written by Daniel Vesterlind and Mattias Esbjörnsson has been accepted to The third Wireless World Conference. (10 May, 2002) |
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| Technical progress During this week the Backseat gaming prototype has been succesfully tested. Four children in the age 5 to 11 years enjoyed the "hard work" of testing the game. (8 May, 2002) |
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| Hearing at the Swedish IT-commission Oskar Juhlin's contribution to the Swedish IT-commission's hearing is now available in the report "Vårt Digitala Tjänstesamhälle - vision 2011+" published as the Government report SoU 2002:25. Order the book. (3 May, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper Backseat Gaming: Augmented reality with speed, written by Liselott Brunnberg and Mark Ollila has been accepted to SIGGRAPH'2002 (sketches and applications). (10 April, 2002) |
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| New publication Oskar Juhlin will publish a review, in the journal of CSCW, of an interesting new anthology on social and interactional aspects of the mobile age. (9 April, 2002) |
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| New mobility members The studio has grown with two new members. Mile Magdic and Peter Sjöstrand will make their masters thesis in the PumpTalk project. (9 April, 2002) |
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| News on fundings Our project proposal MGAIN, dealing with mobile gaming, has been provisionally selected for funding by the European Commission. MGAIN is a consortium between us and Helsinki University of Technology, University of Manchester - The Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Central Lancashire, University of Oulu MediaTeam, The University of Bergen, University of Turku, VTT Research Centre and Linköping University. (8 April, 2002) |
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| Successful tests of Hocman Initial technical tests of Hocman have been successful. The prototype is functional in speeds up to at least 70 km/h. Project page. (29 March, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper How to Evaluate Prototypes Supporting Opportunistic Meetings, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Oskar Juhlin and Mattias Östergren has been accepted to the mobile ad hoc collaboration workshop at CHI'2002. (25 February, 2002) |
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| New mobility members In February the studio has grown with three new members. Anton Gustafsson and Anders Liljedal will make their masters thesis. Fredrik Axelsson is employed by the studio. (19 February, 2002) |
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| Mobility on third place On the 7th of February, the Mobility Studio participated at the yearly SITI (Swedish Institute for Information Technology) conference in Stockholm. The event was a success with more than 300 participants. Demonstrations made visible the progress in research. Mobility presented concepts from their research area, and attracted a lot of attention. When the votes from the participants were counted, the Mobility demonstration ended up on the third place of the most popular presentations. (14 February, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The paper PlaceMemo - Supporting Mobile Articulation in a Vast Working Area Through Position Based Information, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to ECIS'2002. (13 February, 2002) |
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| SITI Conference The mobility studio will demonstrate some of their projects at the SITI Conference, the 7th of February. (23 January, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The short paper: Backseat Gaming: Exploration of Mobile Properties for Fun, written by Liselott Brunnberg has been accepted as a studentposter at CHI'2002. (21 January, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The short paper: Hocman: Supporting Mobile Group Collaboration, written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Mattias Östergren has been accepted as a studentposter at CHI'2002I. (21 January, 2002) |
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| Wireless Gaming Workshop January the 31, the mobility studio will organize a wireless gaming workshop together with the studio partner Digital Bridges Ltd. The invitation is limited to people working at the Interactive Institute. (2 January, 2002) |
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| Demo from the open house The demos presented at the Interactive Institute open house is available for download. Please be patient, the files are very big. Quick time player is required, download from Apple. (2 January, 2002) |
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| Accepted papers The extended abstract, Mobility and social spatiality, written by Daniel Vesterlind and Mattias Esbjörnsson has been accepted to the workshop Transforming Spaces: The Topological Turn in Technology Studies. (11 December, 2001) |
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| Article in Berliner Zeitung German journalists visited the studio, which resulted in an article in Berliner Zeitung (in German only). (5 December, 2001) |
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| Interested to work at the
mobility studio? We are now looking for people to employ at the mobility studio. If you are interested, take a look on the ad (in swedish only) and contact Oskar Juhlin. (15 January, 2002) |
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| The Social Production of Technology The book The Social Production of Technology - On the everyday life with things, edited by Glimell & Juhlin is now available at this site. (12 November, 2001) |
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| Backseat gaming demo A backseat gaming demonstration is available for download (85 mb). Quick time player is required, download from Apple. (8 October, 2001) |
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| Vinnova Report The Vinnova Report Vägen, resan och mobilen - Scenario med frågor för vägtrafik is available for download at the Vinnova website (in Swedish only). (4 October, 2001) |
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| The open house The open house at the Interactive Institute resulted in some articles in Swedish media, for example in Expressen (in Swedish only), where backseat gaming is mentioned. (1 October, 2001) |
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| The Swedish ICT-Commission Oskar Juhlin will be speaking at The Swedish ICT-Commission (IT-kommissionen) the 25 September, "Det digitala tjänstesamhället - Vision 2001+". (14 September, 2001) |
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| Open house During the open house (26 September), the studio will introduce a sample of concepts by equipping an old car, cut in two pieces, with information technology. (14 September, 2001) |
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| "Exjobb" The studio will provide a sample of "exjobb" proposals on this page (in Swedish only). (27 August, 2001) |
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| Master thesis Bo Erlandsson finished his master thesis, which is available at the publications page. (10 August, 2001) |
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| The World Internet Congress Mark Ollila will be speaking at the World Internet Project Congress (19 aug - 22 aug). (6 August, 2001) |
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| Accepted papers Mattias Esbjörnssons article Work in Motion: Interpretation of Defects along the Roads will be presented at IRIS (11-14 Aug). (31 July, 2001) |
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| Prototype demonstration The PlaceMemo prototype built by Liselott Brunnberg will be demonstrated at Nordic Interactive (31 Oct - 3 Nov). The demo proposal PlaceMemo: Using GPS and Mobile Computers to Augment the Roads was written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Liselott Brunnberg. (31 July, 2001) |
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| Collaboration with studio
partners Liselott Brunnberg spends a period of time at Digital Bridges, where she will be trained in the use of their SDK. (31 July, 2001) |
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| Panel discussion Mark Ollila will be the moderator of a panel discussing the future use of mobile IT in the road setting. Oskar Juhlin and Liselott Brunnberg will also take part in the discussion. The panel will take place at Nordic Interactive (2 Nov). (31 July, 2001) |
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| Vinnova report Our report, on visions in the wireless industry regarding mobile IT and road use in the year 2010, is now publicly available in our section for publications. It will also be published as an appendix to a Vinnova report due to July 2001. (7 June, 2001) |
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| Accepted papers Oskar Juhlin's article Traffic Behaviour as Social Interaction - Implications for the Design of Artificial Drivers will be published in the Norwegian Sociological Yearbook this summer. (7 June, 2001) |
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| Digital Bridges Digital Bridges is now one of our studio partners. For further information, se the press release. The partnership is also commented in the weekly newsletter Digital Content and Commerce (Issue 13, vol 2, 4 April). (7 May, 2001) |
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| Technical progress Yesterday a first test of the PlaceMemo-prototype was conducted. The prototype appeard to be functional, messages could easily be recorded and placed along the roads. (19 April, 2001) |
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| Accepted papers The article: Supporting Bus Driver Collaboration: New Services for Public Transport Management written by Oskar Juhlin and Daniel Normark-Vesterlind has been accepted at the 8th ITS world congress. (18 April, 2001) |
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| Vinnova project The mobility studio will be responsible for an investigation concerning the development of future mobile IT-services and technical solutions among roadusers (Utredning av tjänste- och teknikutvecklingen för personbaserat mobilt IT-stöd för väganvändning). The investigation is ordered by Vinnova. (27 March, 2001) |
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| Accepted papers The article: Decentralizing the Control Room: Mobile Work and Institutional Order written by Alexandra Weilenmann and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted at ECSCW. (23 March, 2001) |
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| Accepted papers The shortpaper: Mobile Reporting: Supporting Road Inspectors written by Mattias Esbjörnsson has been accepted as a poster at Interact. (23 March, 2001) |
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| Mark invited as a speaker During the spring Mark will participate as a speaker at several occasions. - The Korean Wireless Delegate for ISEA, March 6th, 2001, Sweden. - The Infotech Oulu Lecture Series, March 7th, 2001, Oulu, Finland. - At wirelessworld.com, April 2-4, 2001, LA. (7 March, 2001) |
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| Oskar member of a Vinnova-project Oskar participates in the group "Informatics for traffic 2010" at Vinnova. The project will give expert judgements of future road informatics. (27 February, 2001) |
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| Conferences Senja Edvardsson will present a studentposter at CHI'2001, Seattle. The group have submitted two papers to ITS'2001, in Sydney. One paper have been submitted to ECSCW'2001, in Bonn. A shortpaper to INTERACT'2001, Tokyo. (26 February, 2001) |
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| SUN Wireless center of excellence The mobility group visited the official opening of SUN wireless center of excellence in Kista. Pressrelease. Article in Computer Sweden (swe). (15 February, 2001) |
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| The Mobility Studio The mobility group at Interactive Institute has now been accepted as a studio. (14 February, 2001) |
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| New colleagues The 8th of February Bo Erlandsson started working at the office. Four days later Liselott Brunnberg joined the group. In the middle of March Mattias Östergren will start working in the group. (12 February, 2001) |
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| SITI-Seminar The group presented the research activities at a seminar arranged by SITI, at the 7th of February. Other participants are the mobile informatics group at the Viktoria Institute and social computing at SICS. (9 February, 2001) |
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| The Mobility group The mobility group at Interactive Institute started in the beginning of January. Oskar Juhlin is the group manager. The group description [PDF]. (15 January, 2001) |