Year: 2005

The CHI notes-submission Watching the cars go round and round: designing for active spectating [PDF], written by Mattias Esbjörnsson, Barry Brown, Oskar Juhlin, Daniel Normark, Mattias Östergren and Eric Laurier … Continue Reading →

The paper Keep your eyes on the road and your finger on the trigger – Designing for mixed focus of attention in a mobile game for brief encounters [PDF], written … Continue Reading →

Mattias Esbjörnsson has been interviewed about his research on mobile phone use while driving. The article, L’ethnographie du téléphone en voiture, (in French) is available at [link].

Mattias Östergren and Oskar Juhlin will present their text: ”Time to meet face-to-face and screen-to-screen” on Friday the 2nd December between 14.00 and 16.00. The text [PDF] will be available … Continue Reading →

Daniel Normark will present his thesis at a ”final seminar” on Tuesday the 15th November between 10.00 and 13.00 at the Department of Sociology in Göteborg. The address is Sprängkullsgatan … Continue Reading →

Mattias Östergren will present his thesis at a ”final seminar” on Thursday 20 October between 13.00 and 15.00 at the Interactive Institute, Linnégatan 89b. The final seminar is the last … Continue Reading →

Several companies and organisations are contributing resources to the Backseat Playground project to the equivalent value of 500 000 SEK. Ordnance Survey produces digital and paper maps and OS MasterMap … Continue Reading →

Mattias Esbjörnsson successfully defended his PhD thesis Enhanced social interaction in traffic on the Department of Applied Information Technology, at the IT-university in Göteborg on Friday.

A poster presenting the Backseat Playground project was exposed in Microsoft Research booth on Intelligent Environments at INTERACT’05 (14-16 Sept).

Niklas Scherp’s report on his project has been confirmated at KTH. Niklas has developed a Java programme called ”mySplittime”, based on specifications from the Rally-project, on a Nokia phone.