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MUM 2002
First International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
11-14 December, Oulu, Finland.
Staffan Björk was a member of the program committee.
Borås Textile Museum Vernissage
10th November 2002, Borås, Sweden
PLAY, together with the Textile School in Borås, presented a number of experiments with textiles that reflect and absorb sounds. The work is part the ePeople project (funded by VINNOVA) as well as project courses run by the Textile School in their masters program. The vernisage was held in conjunction with the Future Design Days at the Textile Museum in Borås.
Second Danish HCI Research Symposium
7th November 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Staffan Björk gave the talk "The PLAY Studio - Experimental Design in Ubiquitous Computing".
UIST 2002
15 annual symposium on User Interface Software & Technology
October 27-30, Paris, France. Demonstration: Lalya Gaye, Lars Erik Holmquist (both from FAL, Viktoria Institute) and Ramia Mazé demonstrated Sonic City: Merging Urban Walkabouts With Electronic Music. Johan Redström was the Demonstrations chair.
Online Archives - Perspectives on Networked Knowledge Spaces, October 25-26, Schloss Birlinghoven in Sankt Augustin (Bonn), Germany
Staffan Björk gave the presentation PLAY - Experimental Design in Ubiquitous Computing at the workshop Perspectives on Networked Knowledge Spaces arranged by the MARS Exploratory Media Lab (Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication).
User Interfaces for All
7th ERCIM Workshop, October 23-25, Paris (Chantilly), France.
Paper presentation: Mikael Goldstein (Ericsson Usability Labs), Gustav Öquist (Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala University) and Staffan Björk presented the paper Evaluating Sonified Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: An Immersive Reading Experience on a Mobile Device.[Abstract]
NordiCHI 2002
The Second Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
October 19-23, Aarhus, Denmark
Paper presentation: Lars Hallnäs, Linda Melin and Johan Redström presented the paper Textile Displays; Using Textiles to Investigate Computational Technology as Design Material. [abstract]
Short paper presentation: Staffan Björk and Johan Redström will present the short paper Window Frames as Areas for Information Visualization. [abstract]
Students from the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design course (run by PLAY in 2001-2002) at the IT University in Göteborg showed several projects:
Aesthetic Artifact: Linus Rydberg and Johan Sandsjö presented BeatCatch.
Aesthetic Artifact: Hanna Landin, Sus Lundgren & Johannes Prison presented the Iron Horse.
Aesthetic Artifact: Charlotte Axelsson, Eva Eriksson, Daniel Lindros & Marie Mattson presented SpringFlow.
Johan Redström is member of the Aesthetic Artefacts Special Committee.
UBICOMP 2002
September 29 - October 1, Göteborg, Sweden.
The second Jamboree of the Disappearing Computing Initiative was co-located with the Ubicomp conference.
The Smart-Its project, in which PLAY is one of the participating research groups, presented a number of demos and scenarios at the event.
Poster: Carola Gustavsson, Alireza Haghighi and Christina Wisser (students from the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design run by PLAY 2001-2002) presented The Personality Analyzer.
Poster: Henrik Jernström presented SiSSy - Smart-Its child Supervision System.
Peter Ljungstrand was Posters and Video Demonstrations chair.
Vernissage, September 28, 2002, Formargruppen, Malmö, Sweden.
Linda Melin presented the interactive pillow project (developed together with CR&T and Gatespace) at an art exhibition at the gallery Formargruppen. [information only in Swedish]
Mobile HCI 2002
Fourth International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices
18-20 September 2002, Pisa, Italy
Short paper presentation: Utilizing gaze detection to simulate the affordances of paper in the RSVP format by Gustav Öquist (Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University), Mikael Goldstein (Ericsson Research, Interaction & Usability Lab) and Staffan Björk was presented at Mobile HCI 2002. [abstract] [PDF]
INTERACTION INSTITUTE IVREA
9-10 September 2002, Ivrea, Italy
Ramia Mazé visited the Interaction Design Institute IVREA to present PLAY and discuss possible future projects and student exchanges.
PLAY on Finnish Radio
Radio Ylen Ykkönen, 87.9 Mhz, August 12, 15.10-16.00
Staffan Björk was interviewed about the future of computer games in the "Merkkitoute" program on Radio Ylen Ykkönen.
SIGGRAPH 2002
29th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
July 21-26, San Antonio, USA
Panel: Staffan Björk spoke at the panel Unsolved Problems in Mobile Computer Graphics and Interaction at SIGGRAPH 2002.
Sketch presentation: Tobias Skog presented the sketch Bringing Computer Graphics to Everyday Environments with Informative Art, which was co-authored by Sara Ljungblad and Lars Erik Holmquist of the Future Applications Lab.
Jyväskylä Arts Festival, July 9-14, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Presentation: Staffan Björk gave a speech at the Jyväskylä Arts Festival entitled What Computer Games Do You not Play on Computers?
ACM ToCHI
Paper: The paper From Use to Presence; On the Expressions and Aesthetics of Everyday Computational Things, by Lars Hallnäs and Johan Redström, has been accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI). To appear in a special issue on the new usability. [abstract]
Nordic Textile Journal
Paper: The paper A Design Research Program for Textiles and Computational Technology, by Lars Hallnäs, Linda Melin and Johan Redström, has been accepted for publication in the Nordic Textile Journal. [abstract]
DIS 2002
Desinging Interactive Systems, June 25-28, British Museum, London, UK.
Student Project Exhibition by Ramia Mazé: Mixers: a participatory approach to design prototyping [abstract]
Paper presentation by Lars Hallnäs and Johan Redström: Abstract Information Appliances; Methodological Exercises in Conceptual Design of Computational Things. [abstract]
Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference
June 6-8, Tampere, Finland.
Staffan Björk and Jussi Holopainen from Nokia Research Center organized the workshop Computer Game Design Patterns.
Universeum, 15-22 May, Göteborg, Sweden.
Graduate student work from the masters program in HCI/Interaction Design at the IT University was exhibited at Universeum, Sweden's national science discovery centre. The exhibition was called Interactive Futures (all information in Swedish).
CHI 2002
ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
April 20 - 25, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Student Poster by Per Jacobsson: Using a Tree View Metaphor to Visualize Hardware Simulation for Testing [abstract]
Interaction Design Portfolio by Ramia Mazé: Mixers [Portfolio piece in PDF]
Position Paper by Staffan Björk for the Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Workshop: Designing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Applications: Scenario experiences with Smart-Its [Abstract] [PDF]
Kommunikation 2002
April 4 - 5, Göteborg, Sweden.
Staffan Björk held a talk entitled "The Future of communication - Everyday Things" (Vardagsföremål - Framtidens kommunikationsbärare) as part of the closed session of the Kommunikation 2002 fair (information in Swedish only).
Special Issue on Ubiquitous Games in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Peter Ljungstrand and Staffan Björk are guest editors together with Jussi Holopainen (Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland) and Regan Mandryk (Edge Lab, Simon Fraser University, Canada) for a special issue on the merger of ubiquitous computing and games. The issue will focus on both social and technological of aspects and will be published in the fall of 2002. An open call for papers has been announced for the issue with a deadline on the 28th of February 2002.
Research Atelier: exploring fun and entertainment with ubiquitous computers
February 18 - 22, Göteborg, Sweden
Staffan Björk and Peter Ljungstrand organized a workshop within the framework of the Disappearing Computer initiative from the European Union together with Jussi Holopainen, NRC, and Karl-Petter Åkesson, SICS. Further information about the event can be found here.