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The Experience Industry
PLAY has collaborated in a project by KK-stiftelsen to study and develop the Swedish experience industry, including music, film, art, travel, design, fashion, etc. We contributed expertise in the area of computer games. Invitation to press conference December 14 (in Swedish)
Best IT Project in Health Care in Sweden 1999
Panikprojektet, a joint project between PLAY researcher Peter Ljungstrand, and Per Carlbring from the Dept. of Psychology, Uppsala University received a shared first prize in the contest Best IT Project in Health Care in Sweden 1999, arranged by Dagens Medicin. Panikprojektet has successfully been using a novel, internet mediated, way of treating people with Panic Disorder. Here is a picture from the award ceremony at Läkarstämman (the annual Swedish Medicine Congress) in Stockholm, December 1, 1999. More details here.
99-12-12 - 99-12-14: Managing Interactions in Smart Environments (MANSE) '99, Dublin, Ireland
Paper presentation by Johan Redström, Per Dahlberg*, Peter Ljungstrand and Lars Erik Holmquist: Designing for Local Interaction [* Viktoria Mobile Informatics Group]
99-11-7 - 99-11 -10: User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) '99, Asheville, North Carolina
Paper presentation by Staffan Björk, Lars Erik Holmquist and Johan Redström (PLAY); Ivan Bretan and Rolf Danielsson (Telia); Jussi Karlgren and Kristofer Franzèn (SICS):
WEST: A Web Browser for Small Terminals Download presentation slides (Windows PowerPoint slideshow)
99-10-25 - 99-10-26: IEEE Information Visualization '99 San Francisco, USA
Paper presentation by Staffan Björk, Lars Erik Holmquist and Johan Redström:
A Framework for Focus+Context Visualization
99-10-18 - 99-10-19: International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) '99, San Francisco, USA
Poster presentation by Peter Ljungstrand, Staffan Björk and Jennica Falk:
The WearBoy: A Platform for Low-cost Public Wearable Devices
Poster presentation by Alexandra Weilenmann* and Lars Erik Holmquist:
Hummingbirds Go Skiing: Using Wearable Computers to Support Social Interaction
[* Viktoria Mobile Informatics Group]
99-09-29: The Future of Fun II: Handheld and Ubiquitous Fun, Karlsruhe, Germany
This HUC '99 workshop was an intense one-day brainstorm session about the future of entertainment technology.
99-09-27 - 99-09-28: Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC) '99, Karlsruhe, Germany
Paper presentation by Lars Erik Holmquist, Johan Redström and Peter Ljungstrand:
Token-Based Access to Digital Information Short paper presentation by Jennica Falk, Johan Redström and Staffan Björk: Amplifying Reality Poster presentation by Johan Redström, Patricija Jaksetic and Peter Ljungstrand: The Chatterbox
99-09-16 & 99-09-21: PLAY on TV!
PLAY researcher Staffan Björk appeared as a guest on the TV 2 show "Behind the Headlines" (Bakom rubrikerna), where the topic was "the future of the book."
99-09-17: Experiments in the Future of Reading: Speculative Design from Xerox PARC
Matt Gorbet, member of the Research in Experimental Documents group at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, USA, talked about an exciting research project investigating the future of reading.
99-09-17: Navigating in 3D - The Design of Cosmo Player 2.0
Susan Gorbet, Senior User Interface Designer and Design Manager for Excite@Home's advanced technology group, Excite Extreme, talked about her experiences in designing this popular 3D browser.
99-09-12 - 99-09-16: European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) '99
Poster presentation by Peter Ljungstrand: WebWho: Support for Student Awareness and Coordination.
99-08-25: HCI International '99, Munich, Germany
Lars Erik Holmquist gave a presentation in the panel session Baby Faces: User-Interface Design for Small Displays, arranged by Aaron Marcus of AM+A.
99-07-31 - 99-08-06: IJCAI '99 Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden
Poster presentation by Patricija Jaksetic and Agneta Bergström: A System that Evolves Patterns for Detecting Textual Relations Demonstration of The Chatterbox
99-08-07 - 99-08-10: IRIS 22, Keuruu, Finland
Paper presentation by Jens Bergqvist*, Staffan Björk, Martin Börjesson** and Peter Ljungstrand: Scenarios for multidisciplinary design purposes: Experiences earned [*Mobile Informatics Group, **Volvo IT]
99-06-09: Fuel-1999, Stockholm, Sweden
Lars Erik Holmquist gave yet another Furby-augmented presentation about the future of computing. Brygg, Freedom and Alex don't know what they unleashed on the world when they gave him that present!
99-05-24 - 99-05-25: Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA
Staffan Björk, Patricija Jaksetic and Johan Redström paid a visit this multidisciplinary research and education center, famous for pioneering work in topics such as artificial intelligence and artificial life.
99-05-18 - 99-05-20: Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) '99, Pittsburgh, USA
Four poster presentations by PLAY: An Alternative to Scrollbars on Small Screens by Staffan Björk and Johan Redström, The BubbleBadge: A Wearable Public Display by Jennica Falk and Staffan Björk, WebStickers: Using Physical Objects as WWW Bookmarks by Peter Ljungstrand and Lars Erik Holmquist, People, Places and the NewsPilot by Per Dahlberg, Johan Redström and Henrik Fagrell (Mr. Dahlberg and Mr. Fagrell appear courtesy of Mobile Informatics.)
99-05-02: Gothenburg Science Festival
Under the headline Computers - Not Just On the Desktop, PLAY presented current projects including The Bubblebadge, WebStickers and The ChatterBox. We also argued that Furby is the computer of the future (do you know anyone who does context aware computing better?)
99-04-01: Writing and Computers Two poster presentations by PLAY:
OfficeID: Generating Text Based on Information in a Computer Network by Patricija Jaksetic and Johan Redström, Visualizaing Digital Variants: Facilitating Visual Exploration of Texts by Staffan Björk and Lars Erik Holmquist
SAGAs '99, phase III, module 1 12-18 March, Munich, Germany
Staffan Björk participated in this European workshop on writing interactive fiction.
99-03-10: Seminar on Object-Based Media at Viktoria
Alex Westner, member of the Object-Based Media group at the MIT Media Lab. discussed recent projects including HyperSoap, Reflection of Presence and Object-Based Audio Capture.
99-03-08 and 99-03-09: MIT lunch lectures at IMPACT '99
Over 300 people came each day to listen to Freedom Baird and Brygg Ullmer from the MIT Media Lab give their talks on the future of interactive storytelling and the future of human-computer interfaces. See also the article in Svenska Dagbladet: Freedom, Brygg och Lars Erik har en grej ihop (large file in PDF format!)
99-02-10: Visit
Hans-Werner Gellersen, manager at the Telecooperations Office, Karlsruhe University, Germany, visited the Viktoria Institute and held a presentation entitled Location and Context in Mobile Computing.
PROMODIS Cluster South meeting
28 January, The Viktoria Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden
PLAY hosted the first meeting for Cluster South in the on-going PROMODIS research programme, funded by NUTEK.
Intelligent User Interfaces
5-8 January, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, USA
Poster presentation by Per Bruno, Viktor Ehrenberg and Lars Erik Holmquist:
STARzoom - An Interactive Visual Database Interface