Events...
October 19 Ylva Fernaeus, Mattias Jacobson and Alex Taylor and me arranged a workshop at Nordichi´08 about Designing Robotic Artefacts with User and Experience-Centred Perspectives.
Oct 10 -12 LIREC meeting in Lisabon.
Sept 19-21 I conducted interviews with artists at Artbots in Dublin.
June 7 I started at the Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm to work with future mobile applications, and with robots for everyday life in the newly started EU project called LIREC (LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions).
April 7 to June 6 I did an internship at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. I worked with Richard Harper and his collegues in the Socio-Digital Systems group.
April 25 I defended my thesis "Beyond Users: Grounding Technology in Experience" in Human-Machine Interaction at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University. The opponent was Bill Gaver from Goldsmiths, University of London.
2007
August 22-25 DPPI' 2007 Presented a paper about the Lomographers role in the design process of Context Photography at DPPI'07 - Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
August 27 - 30 Mobile Life VINNex Centre Opening Stockholm August 30. Workshop at Ericsson on the 29th. Inauguration August 30.
Sept16 - 19 Attended the Ubicomp conference and presented a paper at the Workshop on Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values in Innsbruck, Austria.
August 7-9 Siggraph Emerging Technologies. My collegues presented our collaborative project: Glowbots
May 22-25 ECAgents review meeting in Venice, Italy.
May 14-18 Mobile life centre goes to Japan. Visting Keio university, Sony etc.
April 28-May 3 CHI conference, San Jose, CA, USA. Presented the paper: Transfer Scenarios: Grounding innovation with marginal practices, in the session about design methods,
April 18-19 Open house for the research institute Sics, Kista, Stockholm
March 19 First seminar on my thesis draft, It-university, Gothenburg.
March 7-8 Kickoff in Kista, Stockholm for the Mobile Life Centre.
February 18-20 Visitied Alex Taylor at Microsoft, Cambridge to discuss robot research. I also gave a presentation about my work on agents and robots.
February 8 Early kick-off for the Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm.
February 7 Invited talk at Utsikt 2007 Conference, Stockholm. A yearly conference about applied inforamtion technology research in Sweden. I presented Context photography and the role of Lomographers in the designprocess.
2006
December 11- 12 Meeting with the Evolution of Commmunication project group at Intelligent systems at EPFL in Lausanne. We will discuss E-puck robot development and robot demonstrators for the EC-agents project.
October 28 - November 3 I travelled as a representative for Mobile Life Excellence Centre in a delegation to Korea (arranged by Vinnova). We visited Kaist, Kosef, (Dae-Jon) Pusan University Hyundai (Pusan) ITEP and Samsung (Seoul).
October 14-18 NordiChi 2006, Oslo the Fourth Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction. We presented the paper "More than meets the eye: An Exploratory User Study of Context Photography"
September 6-8 RO-MAN 06- The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Hertfordshire, UK "Getting to know socially intelligent robots" Presented the paper: Designing Personal Embodied Agents with Personas.
April 24-27 CHI 2006, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems On the 25 of April (16.30) Maria presented our alt-chi paper on snapshots from a study on Context Photography. I attended the Workshop on Theory and Method for Experience Centred Design, and one course on Personas. The workshop was overall very interesting and I especially apprechiated the work presented by Bill Gaver and Phoebe Sengers, as their work exemplifies values that I find important for experience design.
March 6-9 ECAgents meeting Rome.
March 2-3 HRI 2006 Human Robot Interaction Conference Attending HRI Young Researchers Workshop presenting material on our ongoing robot project and the robot workshop we held at Viktoria 2005.
2005
October 12 -14 Smart objects and ambient intelligence, Grenoble France, Special session about Everyday robotics.
September 11 -14 Ubicomp Conference 2005, Tokyo, Japan. Attending the Doctoral Colloquium.
September 26 - 27 EC-Agents meeting, Belgum
July 28 to August 5 Siggraph Conference, LA Presenting a sketch (view schedule), Intersection: Computer Graphics for Everyday Living
July 15 - 16 Collabtech conference, Tokyo, Japan. Presenting a paper about the Pin&Play technology and collaborative work at the Filmfestival in Göteborg
June 19 - 22 Lausanne workshop: Collaborative Artefacts and Interactive Furniture Discussing wall-based technologies such as Pin&Play and Informative art.
June 16- 17 Siti-conference Presenting a demo of the Context camera.
April 28 Presenting my work at Dataföreningen, Västra Sverige. 17.30
April 11- 16 Robot Companions Symposium, UK
March 4 -10 EC Agents reviewing meeting, Budapest
January 20, 21 Future Applications Lab 2005 Kick-off at Varbergs kurort.
January 13-14 (2005) Robot Workshop Göteborg. Thank you everyone that participated to make this a successful event!
2004
December 5 - 8 Complex Systems Conference, Torino, Italy.
Nov 24 - 26 Meeting with the Mobile life group, Stockholm
October 12, 15 I lectured at the IT-universtity, Göteborg About "User Centered Design" for Intelligent Systems Design students.
September 27-30 attended the EC-agents meeting in Rome, dicsussing active media agents and possible "smart" toys for Aibo
September 7-10 Maria Håkansson and presented a poster at Ubicomp 2004 in collaboration with the Santa Anna Insitute. We also had a demo of the Pin&Play prototype that two of our master's students have developed.
August 1-5 I attended DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) showing our Context Camera in the Design Exhibition with my collegues.
June 17 SITI Conference, Stockholm View pictures from the exhibition (taken by Johan Sanneblad)
June 10-11 Mobile Music Workshop, Viktoria Institute, Göteborg
May 25 Industrial meeting in Stockholm.
May 18 Meeting Santa Anna Institute in the Pin&Play project, Stockholm
May 10 -11 Meeting EC Agents, with Sony CSL Paris
April 24- 29. The Context Camera (Picture This! project) was presented at CHI 2004 Conference on Human Computer Interaction, in Wienna, 25th to 29th of April. Lalya, Maria and me met the Lomographic Society in Vienna. During the CHI conference I also attended a workshop on Time Design, contributing with lessons learned about designing time with Informative Art.
February 8 - 11. Visiting Media Lab Europe with the Mobile Life project in Dublin, Ireland.
January 23 - February 2. Obtaining new premises; moving to to Lindholmen, close to the It-university in Göteborg
January 20. Holding an"Introduction to user centered design" lecture at the It-University.
2003
December 17. Workshop with users in the Picture This project.
December 15. Observed and videotaped the Göteborg Filmfestival Scheduling process in the Pin & Play project.
December 2. Workshop with users in the Picture This project.
November 4. Mobile Life Seminar in Göteborg with Kia Höök and Oscar Juhlin.
November 7. Workshop in Linköping discussing Everyday It-applications and ubiquitous computing.
October 21,23,28 and 30. Teaching about USER DRIVEN DESIGN at the Intelligent products course at the IT-university.
September 1 -5 Interact 2003 Ninth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. "Bringing the Bits together" in Zurich, Switzerland. Maria Håkansson presented our short paper within the pin&play project : Like Solving a Giant Puzzle: Supporting Collaborative Scheduling at a Film Festival [PDF].
May 8-9 Pin&Play workshop with the Lancaster team and the filmfestival team.
June 5-7 DUX 2003 Conference on Designing the User Experience, San Francisco, USA. Maria Håkansson is presenting our research sketch; Capturing the Invisible: Designing Context-Aware Photography
June 24- 26 Movement in the city: a four day research workshop at the Interactive Institute, Stockholm with Barry Brown and Alex Talor.
April- CHI 2003 , Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 5-10.
January- Meeting with Mobility in London 30 January to 1 February. We visited Bill Gaver and his students at Royal College of Art , Paul Luff at Kings College and Bob Spence at Imperial College. We also had a meeting with Alex Talor from Digital World Research Centre, who presented his work about young people and their use of mobilephones.
2002
November- CSCW2002, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, New Orleans, USA 16th - 21th november. Workshop Public Community and Situated Displays
October- Ubicomp 2002, Conference on Ubiquitous Computing sept 29 - oct 1, Draken Cinema and Conference Center, Göteborg Sweden.
September- Mobile Life Research Workshop with Future Applications Lab, SICS (Swedish Institute of Computer Science) and the Mobility group at the InteractiveInstitute, sept 11 - 12 in Finnhamn, Sweden
July - Siggraph Conference 2002, Texas, USA Sketches and Applications Tobias Skog presented the sketch Bringing Computer Graphics to Everyday Environments with Informative Art (co-authored with Lars-Erik Holmquist and me) [PDF].
June- Pin&Play meeting at Lancaster University, UK. Pin&Play is a project that involves ad-hoc networking among obejcts, attached to a large surface. It is sponsored by the European Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program.
April - CHI Conference 2002, Minneapolis, USA. I attended and presented at the workshop: Funology - Designing Enjoyment. Positionpaper: Weather by Mondrian: Designing Enjoyable Information Displays (co-authored with Lars-Erik Holmquist) [PDF].