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Sorry for my long break from blogging. Thanks to JCS for asking me to come back, as it was just the push I needed to get this post out. A few other readers have also noticed my absence from the blogosphere, thanks to all of you for your encouragement and support. My silence does not mean I've been...
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I came across an announcement for the following workshop: Workshop on Designing Cute Interactive Media in conjunction with the ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems . ACM is the premier professional research society for computer scientists. I think it is quite a statement that the broader research...
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I gave a keynote talk to kickstart the Packet Video 2007 Workshop in Lausanne, Switzerland. The audience was great, and the talk seemed to generate lots of discussion during the Q&A and for the remainder for the workshop. Here's a recap. Abstract Mobile & media experiences connect people...
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Last week I was on a panel on "HCI for Multimedia Communications" at the ICME 2007 conference in Beijing. The organizers and panelists were as follows: Title HCI for Multimedia Communications Organizers Qiong Liu, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA Panelists Zhengyou...
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At the HP gaming summit last month [ 1 , 2 ] I hinted at the fact that Mediascapes had something in the works for May. I'm at the HP Mobility Summit in Shanghai and we just made the announcement. HP is creating a community web site for Mediascapes users and creators and we just opened up the beta release...
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The Next-Generation Gaming Experience is immersive, social, mobile, and physical. It raises a number of technology challenges to make it real, but researchers love a challenge! Here is our view of the next-gen gaming experience and a few projects that our researchers are working on to get us there. We...
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In an earlier post I said that a group of creative researchers in my team are demo-ing a Mediascapes game at 3GSM 2007 in Barcelona. The researchers designed the game themselves using their Mediascapes authoring toolkit. Here is a description of the game written by Phil Stenton of the HP Labs Mediascapes...
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Mediascapes is an HP Labs research project that makes it easy to author and play context-aware multimedia experiences . Simply put, a Mediascape plays multimedia content (image, audio, or video) on a mobile device based on context triggers. A trigger could be from a location sensor (such as GPS) to create...
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So you may have wondered why I wrote the post I'm gonna be a gamer again! I wrote it because it showcases an important theme for research and technology development -- the close coupling between experience and technology. The technology used for today's console and computer games do not create gaming...