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September 18, 2007

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ISWC 2007

Details available here: http://iswc.net

The Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers
Oct. 11-13, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel

ISWC 2007, the eleventh annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and all other interested parties to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC is a peer-reviewed, academic-style forum for the exchange of the most recent results, and the conference routinely attracts more than 200 attendees from industry, military, government, and academia.

Advance registration ends on September 17th.

Please join us for an exciting conference!

General Chair:
Thad Starner, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Bernt Schiele, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Tapani Ryhanen, Nokia, Finland

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September 14, 2007

Two labs are merged to create one LUCI lab

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It took longer than we hoped it would, but it finally came to pass that a hole between the "big LUCI lab" and the "small LUCI lab" was made. Now both sides get natural light and (hopefully) the students will see more of each other. It looks like the finish work isn't quite complete as of Thursday morning, but the messy work is pretty much done.

So now we just need to use all the reconfigurable furniture and reconfigure the space.

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September 13, 2007

A digital interface which challenges the paper catalog

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Paper catalogs are so much better for facilitating remote shopping (IMHO) than existing digital solutions for online shopping. Both of which pale in comparison to an actual retail store. However, I have to give oSkope some credit for giving me a reason to think that a digital solution might be coming.

oSkope scrapes shopping sites for images and presents them in your web browser in ways that are reminiscent of the BumpTop interface. The subtle inclusion of graphs of sales rank and price hint at useful capabilities that a retail store or paper catalog can't match. Give it a try.

-djp3

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