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Congratulations to faculty member Paul Dourish, on having had a paper accepted to OzCHI 2007:
Dourish, P. 2007. Seeing Like an Interface. Proc. Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference OzCHI 2007 (Adelaide, Australia).
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| Posted: 11/30/07 8:00 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Perhaps without even knowing it, LUCI lab’s own Amanda WIlliams has a cameo on Boing Boing TV. The video podcast program associated with uber-blog boingboing.net recently did a spotlight on the cockroach controlling robotics of CalIT2 Research Fellow (maybe?) and ACE graduate (maybe?) Garnet Hertz. They used Amanda ‘s photos for part of the piece. A dubious honor, but it counts as part of her 15 minutes of fame.
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| Posted: 11/28/07 7:49 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Congratulations to faculty member Paul Dourish, on having had a paper accepted to DUX 2007:
Dourish, P. 2007. Responsibilities and Implications: Further Thoughts on Ethnography and Design. Proc. ACM Conf. Designing for the User Experience DUX 2007 (Chicago, IL).
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| Posted: 11/23/07 8:00 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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The Nomatic*IM research group in the LUCI lab are conducting a survey on IM. If you have 10 minutes, we’d appreciate your input. The standard text is below. Thanks -Don and the Nomatic*IM research group.
“Are you an adult over 18 who uses a laptop (or other mobile device) and instant messaging software (like AIM, MSN messenger, Google Chat/Talk, Yahoo! Messenger or Skype)? University of California, Irvine researchers are studying the extended UCI community to generate an understanding of the way that people manage interruptions and disclose their location. This will help researchers develop techniques to protect individual privacy in the future. Take an anonymous online survey to tell us about your experiences! Qualified participants will be entered into a drawing for a $50.00 UCI bookstore gift certificate. Estimated time to complete the survey is 10 minutes. Survey URL:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=Aiwt8AMWNTGa0miH_2bj7duA_3d_3d“
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| Posted: 11/15/07 11:35 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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Informatics graduate student Eric Kabisch has just had his Masters thesis, which he wrote as part of the ACE program, listed as one of the top six rated english language theses by Leonardo (The International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology).
For more info on the award, see here. For more info on Eric’s thesis, see here.
” < Landscape Denatured: Digitizing the Wild > by Eric Kabisch
ABSTRACT: This paper presents motivation and documentation of four technologically enabled artworks. These artworks explore ways in which digital technologies impact society and culture, focusing particularly on the impacts of information technologies on physical and cultural geography. A framework is provided for analyzing these works of art. This framework addresses the impacts of technology as a three-part cyclical process that includes (1) sensing elements of the environment, (2) analyzing and creating narratives from the captured data, and (3) the propagation of these methods and representations back into the world.
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SignalPlay is an interactive installation that employs wireless sensors to control a spatialized sound environment, allowing participants to explore a distributed collaborative system. Unexceptional.net is a web-based application for visualizing and sonifying network, database and player information of a multi-modal online role-playing game. Sonic Panoramas utilizes image sonification, immersive projection and camera-based machine vision to allow users to create an interactive musical experience from panoramic landscape imagery. Datascape is a periscope-like system for the visualization of geographic information. This system allows users to explore a 3D topography and musical soundtrack that are generated from geospatial information such as marketing demographics. In addressing the impacts of digital technologies on culture, these artworks employ the very technologies being investigated. Through the production and exhibition of this work, I hope to engage the public with these important issues and to help shape the ways that technological methodology embeds itself in our world and in our daily experience.”
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| Posted: 11/14/07 3:09 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Let’s take advantage of a quiet (?!) moment before the upcoming holidays and
get together to talk about CHI and do some networking. Please come with
ideas about future meetings. We have 82 members in our group, so please let
us hear from you! If you are unable to attend, please drop me a line with
your thoughts.
Details:
What: Coffee and CHI
When: November 15, 2007 from 5:30pm – 7:00pm.
Where: Panera Bread on Culver and Barranca in Irvine (off the 5 & 405 freeways)
3988 Barranca Parkway
Irvine, CA 92606
See you there!
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| Posted: 11/8/07 1:00 pm UTC by ghayes Make the First Comment | |
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Call for Papers
MobiSys 2008
The 6th International Conference on
Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services
Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association.
Breckenridge, Colorado
June 10-13, 2008
http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2008/
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MobiSys 2008 seeks to present innovative and significant research on
the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and
wireless systems, applications, and services. This conference builds on
the success of the previous four MobiSys conferences. It is jointly
sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association.
We seek papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus
narrowly on low-level components. We value results and insights obtained
from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from
simulations. If you have any questions regarding relevance or other
submission-related issues, please contact the program chairs at
mobisys_pcchairs@acm.org. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Design, implementation, and evaluation of mobile and wireless systems
* Middleware and service architectures for mobile and wireless applications
* Data management for mobile and wireless applications
* Operating systems for resource-constrained mobile devices
* Disconnected and weakly connected operation
* Proxies and data adaptation
* Mobile agents
* Infrastructure support for mobility
* Security and privacy in mobile and wireless systems
* System-level energy management for mobile and wireless devices
* Wearable and handheld devices in the context of system design
* Personal-area networks and systems
* Cyber foraging and resource discovery for mobile services
* Systems for context sensing and context awareness
* Tools and design methodologies for building mobile and wireless systems
* Mobile computing support for pervasive computing
* User interfaces and usability issues for mobile and wireless applications
* Experience with mobile and wireless systems
* Experience with sensor networks and systems
* Support for social networking
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| Posted: 11/7/07 2:52 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Nick has a demo set up in the LUCI lab of the Sony game Eye of Judgement. It is pretty innovative in that it uses augmented reality as a central aspect to the game. A camera watches the playing surface and detects when participants play cards. Computer vision algorithms detect the cards and animate the result on the screen overlaying the real video footage. It’s like the card game Magic meets the monster chess game from Star Wars-A New Hope.
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| Posted: 11/7/07 8:52 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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The LUCI lab has a Chumby for researchers to incorporate into their work. “What is a Chumby?” you ask. It is somewhere between a PDA and a stuffed animal. It is a completely open, customizable, digital accessory. It has Wi-Fi, a 3-inch touchscreen, accelerometer, a soft case, USB and an online infrastructure for managing what it displays. There are lots of well thought out hacks that go along with it. Like the image on the left for example. It’s a real-time view of what the Chumby is currently displaying.
I’ll leave the online account password near the Chumby so that you can mess around with setting up your own channels of content.
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| Posted: 11/6/07 5:01 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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From ThinkGeek.com:
“This umbrella has been injected with some wonderful technology in the handle. A built-in wireless receiver gets a daily weather forecast from Accuweather.com, and blue LEDs will flash to let you know if the forecast is rain or snow. The LEDs located at the bottom of the handle will flash in proportion to the chance of precipitation for your area; if there is a 100% chance, it will flash quickly, and if a 10% chance, it will flash slowly.”
For the poor saps who live in places where it rains, it seems like it would be super cool to leave this hanging by the door. Then on the way out, just check the light to see if you should bring it along or not.
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| Posted: 11/2/07 5:15 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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