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Sensor Squid Relation Game project site launched

Reflective Livers Lisa and Becky have just launched a project page for the Sensor Squid Relation Game, a project for which they each got a short paper accepted to SIGCHI. Project page, Flickr photos.

The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control (Summer 08)

( academic and research )

Paper/Abstract Submissions and Invited Session Proposals Due: *January 9th, 2008*
Author Notifications Due: *February 20th, 2008*
Final Paper Due: *March 11th, 2008*
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The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control
Technologies: CCCT 2008 (http://www.infocybereng.org/ccct2008i), to be held
in Orlando, June 29th – July 2nd, 2008
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Submitted papers and extended abstracts will have three [...]

Physically Intimate Computing

Jennifer Chowdury at NYU gives her own take on physical computing. Her angle is that people aren’t going to de-integrate tech from their life as they move into classical modes of relationship.

Another demo of the multi-touch screen interface

( academic and industry and sensing )

This one took place @ TED in February 2006.  It’s not as entertaining as the other videos floating around out there, but it’s somewhat engaging…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=884017118027634444&q=jeff+han&hl=en
Enjoy!

New Journal – Int’l Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media

We received an announcement for a new journal, International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media. Please come to the Brickyard if you would like to see the announcement otherwise more info can be found here: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=14794713

Conference Alerts

( academic and ame and conferences and research )

Link to excellent service that will alert you to conferences in your topic or lets you search: http://www.conferencealerts.com/

Art & Tech program wiki

( academic )

A wiki for Art & Technology programs has been formed at Brown University

Biofeedback meeting notes, November 30

Hello biofeedback team. Good meeting today. I am posting the following report on the blog as well so we can discuss on line
First of all, apologies to all for the start of the meeting being so bumpy. I have not been as involved in this project as I should have been the past 18 months [...]

the ame flickr pool…

AME has a new flickr “pool� where we can pool together pictures that are related to AME. The pictures will be used as data for the situated communications project.
The pool is here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ameatasu/pool/
Please please go over your hard-drives; find out some interesting photos and add them to the pool (the more [...]

reading group

the idea behind the reading group is to discuss interesting papers/articles/essays/anything else. Also the papers can be on a variety of subjects. The idea is basically that every week (or two weeks) one person chooses an interesting piece that he/she would like to discuss.

faculty retreat

( academic and events and opinion and research )

today the faculty, tech panel and staff are in the political science building ‘retreating’. we were going to do paintball or maybe some ‘trust building exercises’ but instead we decided it might be more beneficial to talk about the vision for the unit, our education mission and our future goals. i’ll be updating this post [...]