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98-12-16: Mona Sahlin, minister at the Swedish Government's Department for Industry and Commerce, got a chance to play with the Hummingbirds when she visited the Viktoria Institute.
98-12-03: PLAY submitted an application to form a studio in the Swedish Interactive Institute, funded by the Strategic Research Foundation. The suggested theme of the studio is Entertainment and Innovation. The application is available for download in PDF format.
The Staging of Time, Space and Interactivity
22-26 November, Malmö, Sweden
Staffan Björk partcipated in the Narrativity workgroup at the first Winter Research School at Malmö University. Position paper: Using myths to find narratives in virtual environments
MIT Media Lab
19-23 November, Boston, USA
Jennica Falk, Peter Ljungstrand and Joakim Wigström paid an informal visit to the Media Lab in Boston. Groups visited included Tangible Media and Epistemology and Learning.
The Future Directions in Virtual Environments
19-20 November, Göteborg, Sweden
Staffan Björk held a presentation at the workshop for future directions in Virtual Environments. Presentation slides: Hur skall man visa en användare vägen i en virtuell omgivning utan att använda koppel?
Xerox PARC
10 November, Palo Alto, California, USA
Lars Erik Holmquist gave a presentation of PLAY, The Viktoria Institute, and some current projects in the famous "bean-bag" room.
CSCW '98
14-18 November, Seattle, USA
Lars Erik Holmquist, Joakim Wigström and Jennica Falk demonstrated the Hummingbird technology developed at Viktoria, as part of the Inter-Personal Awareness Devices project. Demonstration title: The Hummingbird - Mobile Support for Group Awareness Lars Erik Holmquist gave a presentation at the workshop on Handheld CSCW. Workshop paper: Supporting Group Collaboration with IPAD:s - Inter-Personal Awareness Devices
SAGAs '98
9-15 October, Munich, Germany
Lars Erik Holmquist participated in this European workshop on writing interactive fiction.
ACM Multimedia '98
13-16 September, Bristol, UK
Poster presentation by Johan Redström: The DishJockey: Integrating Multimedia into Everyday Activities awarded prize for Best Poster!
Literature, philology and computers
7-9 September, Edinburgh, UK
Demonstration by Staffan Björk: Showing Overview and Details in Digital Variants
HCI '98
1-4 September, Sheffield, UK
Poster presentation by Staffan Björk and Lars Erik Holmquist: Formative Evaluation of a Focus+Context Visualization Technique
The Interactive Institute
31 August, Teknikbrostiftelsen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Lars Erik Holmquist presented the activities of PLAY and our application to the Strategic Research Foundation to become part of the Swedish Interactive Institute.
ECAI '98
23-28 August, Brighton, UK
Staffan Björk participated in the Workshop on AI/A-Life and Entertainment at the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
IRIS 21
8-11 August, Saeby, Denmark
Several PLAY members participated in this year's IRIS conference. For details of accepted papers, see Viktoria's publications list.
MIT Media Lab
19-23 November, Boston, USA
Informal visit by Staffan Björk and Roberto Busso. Groups visited included Interactive Cinema and Software Agents.
SIGGRAPH '98
19-24 July, Orlando, Florida, USA
Lars Erik Holmquist and Staffan Björk gave a presentation in the Application Sketches track: A Hierarchical Focus+Context Method for Image Browsing.
Roskilde'98
25-28 June, Roskilde, Denmark
A field evaluation of the Hummingbird prototype was performed at this annual music festival.
The Future of Fun
8 May, Viktoria Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden
This workshop, arranged by PLAY and hosted by Glorianna Davenport, MIT Media Labs, USA, and Maureen Thomas, National Film & Television School, UK, attracted an international community of researchers. See you next year!
CHI '98
18-23 April Los Angeles, California, USA
Poster presentation by Peter Bohlin, Viktoria Nilsson and Magdalena Siverbo:
Bamse-land: A Vitural Theatre with Entertaining Agents Based on Well-Known Characters