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Hug@ree at UCLA: Sci|Art NanoLab 2011
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in Art|Sci DMA Hug@ree PhD research RTiVISS UCLA 12 years, 10 months ago
All set for Hug@ree at the Court od Sciences at UCLA. Cant' wait to see the living foliage the UCLA stdents and visitors will create!
"Bringing real-time visibility to Forests for Sustainability" at CHI 2011 Workshop
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in CHI Conferences PhD research RTiVISS 12 years, 11 months ago
Great experience today CHI 2011 Workshop: Sustainable Interaction Design in Professional Domains :)
Congrats and thanks for the input #CHI2011 on my "Bringing real-time visibility to Forests for Sustainability"!It was great to know the organizers – Daniela Busse, Leonardo Bonanni, John C Thomas, Eli Blevis, and Marko Turpeinen – and their approach on this theme. So sorry I couldn't meet Nuno Nunes again after TEI now in Vancouver, but I got to know another SINAIS project team member, Mary ... – hopefull, we will find some extra time to exchange ideas on our research projects!
Application of patterns. Here's the several groups outputs:
enjoy :)
"Big Brother goes Green" at SXSW
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in BBgoesGreen SXSW 12 years, 12 months ago
Austin was – again – such a great experience, this time with the dual panel presentation at SXSW Interactive.
Three intensive weeks were filled with the most diverse activities!
Here I am covering a bit deeper the SXSW experience, and then the overall Texas immersion. The full set of photos is altogether at Flickr – the shortest selection of photos I could manage to share so interesting and diverse erxperiences :)
2011
madness 21 Fev
Warming up for #SXSW #BBgoesGreen goo.gl/yVWH9 :)
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP6736
with Nuno Correia and Sharon Strover
A subjective overview of the TEI 2011 conference
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in Networking PhD research RTiVISS TEI 13 years, 2 months ago
Finally organizing the documentation after arriving home, here's a set of visual notes that present the Hug@ree point of view of TEI’11 in Madeira » TEI 2011 conference overview [Flickr set]
A big hug saying *congrats* and *thanks* to everyone involved in this great event, especially Valentina, Ian, Ellen, Mark, Pedro, Amon, Edward, Denzil, Mayur, and Ricardo, who contributed to make the whole experience to become possible and wonderful!
Hug@ree at TEI Art Exploration session!
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in Hug@ree RTiVISS TEI 13 years, 2 months ago
The big day is here, Hug@ree was showcased at TEI2011 but first we had to contend with something completely unexpected. The normally sunny weather in Madeira turned its back on us and treated us to some cold wind and rain. Not the the perfect conditions to get people to go outside and hug our tree :/
At the showcase room, the day started early and the room assigned to us at the exhibition space was quickly crowded with nice people setting up their very interesting projects. Hug@ree was in good company :) :) :) :) :)
First we went about calibrating our multitouch display for the exhibition. Our improvised DI setup worked but turned out to be kind of fiddly to set up and a bit unstable in the tracking. In the end it worked out OK for demoing the concept but needs some work to be of any future use.
At half past three, visitors started to arrive and we demoed the installation to them.
At a certain point we received the vist of a local film crew, that was very interested in hearing about our project. They filmed it from every angle and were even captured in our surveillance camera :)
We also received some illustrious visitors that were attending the conference, like UT Austin-Portugal Program's Professor Sharon Strover and MIT's Professor Hirosi Ishii:
The rain made it hard for people to go outside to hug our tree, so we had to go out and do it ourselves, plus a very few brave palm tree huggers, including the student volunteer Ricardo and the The Chameleon Girl herself :) :)
By the end of the showcase we didn't have as many hugs as we expected on our unique Madeira palm tree, but we got some very interesting surprises, like a lightning triggering the sensors and getting captured on video or the quaint lights that the hotel lit up by nightfall:
All in all it was a very rewarding experience. We met a lot of interesting people and got some really nice feedback. If you like, you can check the whole photo set of our adventures at TEI2011.
See you guys next year?