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Two fully funded Ph.D. positions in the area of Mobile Health at OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology, Germany

The OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology (http://www.offis.de/en/) offers two fully funded 2-year Ph.D. [more...]

UIST 2009

 
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I have been at UIST for my second time this year, and my last year's impression was even improved: It is one of the most interesting HCI conferences I have attended to date. [more...]

Conference Review: UIST 2008

Event:
January 1, 1970

Just returning from my first attendance of a UIST conference I discover that it is obviously possible to attend a single track conference without any urge to check emails during some of the talks: All [more...]

Conference Review: UbiComp 2008

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Event:
November 30, 1999

UbiComp 2008 was an overall compelling experience - it seems that lots of research in various areas of ubiquitous computing is conducted these days, most of which is highly interesting and totally futuristic. Nonetheless, I must wonder: A warning system for left-open trouser fly, 'awareness-augmenting' knitting, and flower visualizations that 'augment awareness of activity'? Are these really the big problems of mankind? [more...]

Research Colloquium: Bill Gaver

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Bill Gaver is going to give a talk at the Research Colloquium!

:on October 13th, 2008
:14.00h
:at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
:Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, Berlin [more...]

Cultural Probes in HCI

 

Recently I read some papers about how cultural probes evolved since their introduction by Dunne, Gaver and Pacenti. [more...]