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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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Sorry I've been away from blogging for a while. It's not because of a lack of ideas... It's the opposite. There are so many exciting things going on that I'm hyperstimulated- there's so much to write about! Let me dive deeper into just a few of the many things that are going on in the company. Personal...
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Alex Vorbau is a true believer of social technology. He uses social technology in all aspects of his daily life and his career, and he even focussed his work blog on Social Technology Innovation . But, he had a bad experience that made him question his beliefs. Take a look at his blog post on Thoughts...
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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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Communication is a person-to-person interaction. Communication involves one person conveying a message and another person interpreting the message. This can be done by talking/listening, gesturing/seeing, and writing/reading. Technology makes it possible for people to communicate even when they are far...
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Alex wrote a very interesting post on sharing our lives in little pieces . He talks about how various new web technologies allow us to share pieces of our lives in different ways. Alex really captures the way I feel about social web tools such as blogging and Facebook - I feel that they give me a place...
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I'm on an airplane between Seoul and San Francisco as I make my way home back from Shanghai. I'm not on any airplane... I'm on Singapore Airlines . I'm not in any seat... I'm in the " new business class " which boasts the largest business class seating pod in the world. (On my last trip on this flight...
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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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These posts [ 0 , 1 , 2 ] link to a very thought-provoking YouTube video that has been spreading like wildfire this month. Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us by Professor Michael Wesch Asst Professor of Cultural Anthropology Kansas State University The video gets to the heart of Web 2.0 in 4 mins and...
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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...
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When I was a kid, I loved to play games at the arcade. Then I went to college and grad school for 10 years and got too busy to play. When I finally had a chance to play again, gaming technology had advanced and I couldn't figure out how to use the darn controller. Then, I broke my leg . This grounded...