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Special Issue on Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing in IJHCS
Peter Ljungstrand is guest editor together with Anind K. Dey (Intel Research, USA) and Albrecht Schmidt (Lancaster University, UK) for a special issue on distributed and disappearing user interfaces. The issue will address privacy, design, aesthetics and expressions, and the possible social impact of ubiquitous computing systems. An open call for papers has been announced for the issue with a deadline on the 31th of December 2001.
PLAY manages new Master's Course in HCI & Interaction Design
In collaboration with CR&T, PLAY is in charge of the Master's Course in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design at the new IT University in Göteborg. Visit the course pages here. [All info in swedish]
Lars Erik Holmquist returns to Viktoria
Lars Erik Holmquist, who founded the PLAY research group at the Viktoria Institute in 1998, has decided to leave his position at PLAY and the Interactive Institute. Instead, he will focus on starting a new research group at the Viktoria Institute. Lars Erik plans to keep in close contact with the remaining members of PLAY, and will still be located in the same office at Viktoriagatan 13.
Ubicomp 2001
September 30 - October 2, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The workshop Designing Ubiquitous Computing Games was arranged by Staffan Björk & Peter Ljungstrand from PLAY together with Jussi Holopainen from Nokia Research Center (Tampere, Finland) and Regan Mandryk (Edge Lab, Simon Fraser University, Canada).
Tech note by Lars Erik Holmquist (PLAY); Friedemann Mattern & Bernt Schiele (ETH); Petteri Alahuhta (VTH); Michael Beigl (Teco) and Hans-W. Gellersen (Lancaster U.): Smart-Its Friends: A Simple Technique to Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts.
Tech note by Rebecca Hansson, Peter Ljungstrand and Johan Redström from PLAY: Subtle and Public Notification Cues for Mobile Devices.
SIGGRAPH 2001
28th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, August 12-17, Los Angeles, USA
Two PLAY projects was showcased in the Emerging Technologies exhibition:
Pirates! is a mobile, multi-player, context-aware computer game, jointly developed by PLAY and Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland. Pirates! was a Chair's Prerogative selection for SIGGRAPH 2001.
Informative Art uses the language of traditional art, in particular non-figurative painting, to create dynamic information displays. The Informative Art piece De Stijlistic Dynamics was a Juried Selection for SIGGRAPH 2001.
Further, Lars Erik Holmquist spoke on a panel on mobile entertainment: :-o a Conversation About Interactive Entertainment Experiences on Instant Messaging Devices
Play also had a sketch presentation in the session displays by Lars Erik Holmquist and Linda Melin: Using Color-Changing Textiles as a Computer Graphics Display.
We also demonstrated the color-changing textile in the Creative Applications Lab.
Interact 2001
IFIP TC.13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction July 9-13, Tokyo, Japan
Paper by Staffan Björk, Jennica Falk, Rebecca Hansson & Peter Ljungstrand: Pirates! - Using the Physical World as a Game Board. [PDF] [abstract]
Paper by Lars Hallnäs, Patricija Jaksetic, Peter Ljungstrand, Johan Redström, & Tobias Skog: Expressions - Towards a Design Practice of Slow Technology. [abstract]
Paper by Marcus Nyberg, Staffan Björk, Mikael Goldstein, & Johan Redström: Handheld Applications Design: Merging Information Appliances Without Affecting Usability. [PDF] [abstract]
Poster by Staffan Björk: The ScrollSearcher Technique: Using Scrollbars to Explore Search Results. [Extended abstract as PDF] [Poster as PDF] [abstract]
Seminar on IT in daily life
We invite you to an exciting discussion on how we will live with information technology in the future, featuring internationally acclaimed researchers Pelle Ehn, Bill Gaver, Hans-Werner Gellersen and Tom Rodden. The participants will give brief presentations of their current work and then enter into a discussion moderated by Magnus Bergqvist.
Time: June 15, 10.30-12.30
Place: "Torget", Viktoriagatan 13, Gothenburg
Doctoral Dissertation
Johan Redström will publicly defend his Ph. D. Thesis "Designing Everyday Computational Things" on June 14th, 14.00, at the Department of Informatics, main floor, Viktoriagatan 13, Göteborg. The opponent is Bill Gaver, Computer Related Design, Royal College of Art, London. The committee includes Pelle Ehn, Malmö University College; Hans-Werner Gellersen, Lancaster University; and Tom Rodden, Nottingham University.
A digital version of the thesis can be found here: thesis
Mobilize!
May 29 - 30, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK.
Paper by Ylva Hård av Segerstad & Peter Ljungstrand: Instant Messaging with WebWho.
Machines that Become Us
April 18-19, New Jersey, USA
Paper by Jennica Falk & Staffan Björk: Crossbreeding Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing: Design Experiences from the BubbleBadge. [PDF] [abstract]
CHI 2001
ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, March 31 - April 5, Seattle, Washington, USA.
The workshop Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing was arranged by Peter Ljungstrand from PLAY together with Albrecht Schmidt from TecO and Anind K. Dey from GeorgiaTech.
Interactive Poster by Jennica Falk, Peter Ljungstrand, Staffan Björk & Rebecca Hansson: Pirates: Proximity-Triggered Interaction in a Multi-Player Game [PDF] [Abstract] [Poster as PDF (46 Mb)]
Workshop Paper by Staffan Björk: Activity-Based Mobile Interfaces - Towards a user model for Hybrids between Mobile Phones and PDAs [abstract]
Student Poster by Rebecca Hansson & Tobias Skog: The LoveBomb: Encouraging the Communication of Emotions in Public Spaces [abstract]
Student Poster by Linda Melin: The Information Curtain: Creating Digital Patterns with Dynamic Textiles [abstract]
Student Poster by Fredrik Kronlid & Victoria Nilsson: TreePredict: Improving text entry on PDAs [abstract]
(Results from an M.A. thesis done at PLAY under the supervision of Staffan Björk)
New project with Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship
Three students from Chalmers University of Technology will develop the commercial potential of PLAY:s work on user interfaces for small displays. The intention is to find a viable business model and form a new start-up company to commercialize the results.
Our previous project with Chalmers was very succesful and won several awards. It was based on research in the Hummingbird project, and resulted in the start-up company Wunderkind.