Workshop at CSCW

Mattias Rost will participate in the workshop: Beyond the Laboratory: Supporting Authentic Collaboration with Multiple Displays, at this years CSCW conference in San Diego. The workshop is on Saturday and he will attend the rest of the conference starting on monday.

Robot Workshop at NordiCHI'08

Ylva, Mattias and Sara, together with Alex Taylor from Microsoft Research, UK are arranging a robot workshop at NordiCHI'08 on the 19th of October. The workshop will discuss the intersection between HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and Human Robot Interaction (HRI). The participants are an interesting mix of designers, robot researchers, and HCI people... and we look forward to many interesting discussions!

See you in Lund!

The workshop:

http://www.sics.se/~majac/workshop/

The NordiCHI conference:

http://www.nordichi2008.org/

ArtBots

Mattias, Sara and Ylva participated in this years ArtBots exhibition in Dublin. On site we held interviews with all the artists on their perspectives on working with robotics materials and their thoughts on ethical issues related to robotics. We also kept a small area open for gallery visitors to reflect upon questions like "Why should we be afraid of robots?" and "Why do we love robots?" and put them up on a wall as post-its, for other visitors to view.

UbiComp closing panel

Lars Erik Holmquist will take part in the closing panel at UbiComp 2008 in South Korea. The topic of the panel is the past, present, and future of ubicomp as a field, a research area, a technology direction and as a conference. See you in Seoul!

Demo at UbiComp in Seoul

Mattias Rost, together with Fredrik Bergstrand, will give a demo of a new mobile application called Columbus at UbiComp 2008 in Seoul, South Korea. Columbus is an application for exploring the world around you through photos. Going to a physical location will enable you to see photos taken at this location, while photos at other locations are not accessible until the location is visited.

Journal paper

Mattias, Ylva and Lars Erik recently got a paper published in a Special Issue on Human Interaction with Domestic Robots for the Journal of Physical Agents. The paper details the whole development of GlowBots as well as a preliminary user-study and can be downloaded here.

Workshop at NordiCHI

Ylva, Sara and Mattias, together with Alex Taylor from Microsoft Research, will host a workshop at NordiCHI, on the theme of human-robot interaction and interaction design. The workshop will broadly aim to examine the intersections between HCI and HRI and how the two fields might learn from one another. Read more about the workshop call here.