Sara Ljungblad
saral@viktoria.se
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February
8 - 11. Visiting Media Lab
Europe with Mobile Life
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.
Past
Events 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 [PDF] . This sketch is the first
presented material from the project;Picture this!
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.
Past Events 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 Interactive
Institute, 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].
Studies
M.Sc. Informatics, Gothenburg University
2003
Bs.c. Degree in Cognitive Science at the University of Skövde, 2001.
Exchange student from fall 00 to spring 01 at McGill University in Canada.