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Guest lecture on Ubiquitous Computing: Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech
In cooperation with NUTEK and the Viktoria Institute, PLAY arranged a conference in networked software applications and ubiquitous computing on December 11: Presentations included both relevant companies and research groups in the NUTEK PROMODIS research program.
As a guest speaker, we welcomed Gregory Abowd, leader of the Future Computing Environments Group at Georgia Institute of Technology, who talked about Designing and Building Living Laboratories for Ubiquitous Computing Research. The entire program is available in PDF format (Swedish only)
Pirates!
Santa's Games December 7-8, Rovaniemi, Finland.
PLAY and Nokia Research Center Tampere demonstrated a jointly developed mobile game, Pirates! at the Santa's Games seminar in Rovaniemi, Finland, December 7-8. For more info, check out the Pirates! web page.
CSCW 2000
December 2 - 6, 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Peter Ljungstrand presented the paper An analysis of WebWho: How does awareness of presence affect written messages? at the workshop Awareness and the WWW. The paper was co-authored with Ylva Hård af Segerstad from Dept. of Linguistics, Göteborg University.
Electrohype 2000
October 25-29, Malmö, Sweden.
Paper presentation by Lars Hallnäs and Johan Redström:
Slow Technology: Research on computation technology as design material
Wearable Computers - between technology, fashion and art
October 25, Stockholm, Sweden
PLAY contributed ideas and background material to a video presentation that will be shown as part of the Aha-Days in Stockholm. This event was the first major gathering of representatives for the Swedish experience industry.
NordiCHI 2000
October 23-25, Stockholm, Sweden.
Short paper presentation and demonstration by Lars Erik Holmquist, Magnus Helander and Steve Dixon: Every Object Tells a Story: Physical Interfaces for Digital Storytelling
Ph.D. thesis defence
October 17
Staffan Björk defended his Ph.D. thesis in Informatics, Flip Zooming - The development of an information visualization technique. The opponent was Professor Bob Spence, Imperial College London, UK. The committee included Professor Sture Hägglund, Linköping University, Sweden; Professor Jonas Löwgren, Malmö University College, Sweden; Professor Jarke J. van Wijk, EindHoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Information Visualization (InfoVis) 2000
October 9-10, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Short paper presentation by Staffan Björk and Johan Redström:
Redefining the Focus and Context of Focus+Context Visualizations
Handheld and Ubiquitious Computing 2000 (HUC2K)
September 25-28, Bristol, U.K.
Paper presentation by Staffan Björk, Johan Redström, Peter Ljungstrand, and Lars Erik Holmquist: POWERVIEW: Using information links and information views to navigate and visualize information on small displays
PLAY and Nokia Research Center Tampere demonstrated a jointly developed mobile game, Pirates! at the Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing conference in Bristol, September 25-28. For more info, check out the Pirates! web page.
The BreakBits project
Check out the BreakBits student project, which looked into ways of using music (rather than just audio) to augment a graphical user interface.
Ph.D. thesis defence June 7
Lars Erik Holmquist defended his Ph.D. thesis in Informatics, Breaking the Screen Barrier. The opponent was Hans-Werner Gellersen, University of Karlsruhe, Germany. The committee included Lars-Erik Janlert, Umeå University, Sweden; Wendy Mackay, Aarhus University, Denmark; and Bob Spence, Imperial College London, UK.
Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) 2000
May 24-26, Palermo, Italy.
System paper presentation by Staffan Björk: Hierarchical Flip Zooming: Enabling Parallel Explorations of Hierarchical Visualizations
Graphics Interface (GI) 2000
May 15-17, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Paper presentation by Johan Redström, Peter Ljungstrand and Patricija Jaksetic:
The ChatterBox: Using Text Manipulation in an Entertaining Information Display
Poster presentation by Christian Fredriksson, Gunnar Liljas and Peter Ljungstrand:
BreakBits: Using Music to Facilitate Awareness in User Interfaces
PLAY on TV!
Two TV channels, Sveriges Television and TV 4, have broadcast pieces on PLAY. TV 4 Regional News sent a report from our exhibition in Borås (below), and SVT Västnytt reported from our open house during Göteborg Science Festival.
Open house during Göteborg Science Festival
May 7, Göteborg, Sweden
PLAY showed various projects, including material from the exhbition in Borås (below), during this "open house" session. We had a steady stream of visitors and the event was covered in the regional news in SVT.
PLAY exhibition at Borås Art Museum
May 5, Borås, Sweden
A number of installations by PLAY, including several examples of informative art, were be exhibited at the Borås Art Museum in Borås, Sweden, for one day only. This was in conjunction with the city's yearly "Night of Culture" and in co-operation with "Föreningen Ny Musik". The exhibition was attended by about 250 people in total, and reported in the regional news on TV4.
Here are some images from the show: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
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More information in Swedish (PDF):
- Om informativ konst och långsam teknologi (poster)
- Om installationerna (poster)
- Handout
Third conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2000
April 15-16, Edinburgh, UK
Interactive poster presentation by Agneta Bergström, Patricija Jaksetic and Peter Nordin: Aquiring Textual Relations Automatically on the Web Using Genetic Programming
Designing Augmented Reality Environments (DARE) 2000
April 12-14, Elsinore, Denmark
Paper presentation by Peter Ljungstrand, Johan Redström and Lars Erik Holmquist: WebStickers: Using Physical Tokens to Access, Manage and Share Bookmarks to the Web
Paper presentation by Johan Redström, Tobias Skog and Lars Hallnäs: Informative Art: Using Amplified Artworks as Information Displays
Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2000
April 1-6, The Hague, The Netherlands
Organization overview by Lars Erik Holmquist: The PLAY Research Group: Entertainment and Innovation in Sweden
Short talk by Staffan Björk, Lars Erik Holmquist, Peter Ljungstrand and Johan Redström: PowerView: Structured Access to Integrated Information on Small Screens
Interactive poster by Jennica Falk and Staffan Björk: Privacy and Information Integrity in Wearable Computing and Ubiquitous Computing
Student poster by Rebecca Hansson and Peter Ljungstrand: The Reminder Bracelet: Subtle Notification Cues for Mobile Devices
Student poster by Tobias Skog and Lars Erik Holmquist: WebAware: Continuous Visualization of Web Site Activity in a Public Space
Peter Ljungstrand and Johan Redström took part in the workshop Research Directions in Situated Computing.
Peter Ljungstrand took part in the workshop The What, Who, Where, When, Why and How of Context-Awareness.
Wireless World
April 7, Digital World Research Centre, Guildford, U.K.
Paper presentation by Peter Ljungstrand: Context Awareness in Mobile Telephony
PLAY arranges first official meeting of West Sweden CHI
March 17, Göteborg, Sweden
This was the first official meeting of the newly formed West Sweden chapter of ACM SIGCHI, and was an "advance peek" of the material we will present at CHI 2000!
More information (in Swedish) can be found at www.ws-chi.org
Hummingbird project wins price at Venture Cup!
February 29, Göteborg, Sweden
The Hummingbird project was one of 10 submission (out of a total of 72) that was awarded a cash price of 15.000:- SEK and a bottle of champagne in the prestigious business plan competition Venture Cup! The project is a joint effort between PLAY and Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship to commercialize concepts in PLAY's research on Awareable Computing.
Milia 2000
February 14-15, Cannes, France
Every Object Tells a Story, part of PLAY:s research on Tangible Storytelling, will be exhibited in the New Talent Pavillion along with several other projects developed at the SAGAs Writing Interactive Fiction workshops.
First meeting of West Sweden CHI
January 28, Göteborg, Sweden
PLAY and Carlstedt Research & Technology arranged the first preliminary meeting of the prospective West Sweden Chapter of ACM SIGCHI, the world's foremost organization in the field of of Human-Computer Interaction.
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2000
9-12 January, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA
Short paper presentation by Patricija Jaksetic, Agneta Bergström and Peter Nordin*:
Enhancing Information Retrieval by Automatic Acquisition of Textual Relations using Genetic Programming [* Chalmers Complex Systems Group]