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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 palm tree #TEI2011
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in Hug@ree PhD research Real-time video RTiVISS TEI 13 years, 3 months ago
After testing all kinds of trees and connections at the TEI conference venue CS Madeira, we finally got to this framework! Ah, and don't worry about the scarce foliage... we'll manage to make it spread its leaves with live hugs {[( )]}
... so here's the plan:
Hug@ree setup at TEI2011
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in Hug@ree PhD research RTiVISS TEI 13 years, 3 months ago
Right after we arrived at Madeira island, we headed off to the TEI2011 venue and got busy setting up Hug@ree for the Art Explorations showcase next Tuesday.
Just a couple of days before we left Lisbon, we had a setback. Our friend Tiago's professionally built multitouch display had to be used for an unexpected theater play, so being unavailable for the exhibition, we had to improvise fast.
We scavenged a flexible diffuse plastic sheet out of Nuno's IMG lab and bought some lightweight metal profiles along with some nuts and bolts. Maurício lent us a couple of infrared LED emitters and Guilherme lent us his modded PS3 camera.
In the end we had a DI multitouch setup that would fit on a small plastic tube, normally used to carry posters.
Assembling the frame took about twenty minutes and fixing the diffuse plastic sheet onto it took about an hour and lots of gorilla tape :)
We then setup the surveillance camera lent by the the UT Austin-Portugal Program already used at Popup and went outside to scout the best tree we could find that was visible from our exhibition room. We hugged a lot of very nice trees but had to choose only one :)
By then it was time to go back inside and setup the enclosure that would house our improvised multitouch projection screen. After a quick trip to the local hardware store we repurposed some PVC sheets normally used for wall proofing and once again abused the powers of the gorilla tape to hold everything together as securely as possible.
Next up ws the task of instrumenting our tree. Back outside we measured the XBee radio's range and signal strength and hooked up the capacitive sensor wires and their controller box to the tree.
... then the outdoor caption:
... followed by hug tests:
And that was it. After a super busy day, our installation setup was ready. Tomorrow we'll start with the lighting and multitouch calibration and install the final version of the software that will run our exhibit.
If you're attending TEI2011, come see us on Tuesday afternoon and don't miss the Madness session first thing in the morning.
2010 in review
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in PhD research 13 years, 3 months ago
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:
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In 2010, there were 67 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 73 posts. There were 59 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 6mb. That's about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 5th with 80 views. The most popular post that day was Abraçaum@rvore » Sprint AZ: 1 finalFeliz em 2 videos e 3'-.
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"Diasporadic" encounters March 2010
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ABOUT September 2009
2010 year review for this blog
Posted by: Mónica Mendes in PhD research 13 years, 3 months ago
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats.
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2010. That's about 6 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 67 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 73 posts. There were 59 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 6mb. That's about 1 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was October 5th with 80 views. The most popular post that day was Abraçaum@rvore » Sprint AZ: 1 finalFeliz em 2 videos e 3'-.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were rtiviss.com, digg.com, labcd.org, facebook.com, and areas.fba.ul.pt.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for monica mendes, photos macal do chao portugal, bert herigstad, maçal do chão, and rtiviss.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Abraçaum@rvore » Sprint AZ: 1 finalFeliz em 2 videos e 3'- September 2010
"Viral" refs meeting Nancy Schiesari @SXSW March 2010
RTiVISS [Real-time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability] October 2009
"Diasporadic" encounters March 2010
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ABOUT September 2009