PhD thesis defence
On Friday the 23rd of September, 14.00, Mattias Esbjörnsson will defend his PhD thesis, Enhanced Social Interaction in Traffic. The defence will take place at the IT-University in Göteborg, Forskningsgången … Continue Reading →
Year: 2005
Seminar with Marc Breviglieri and Magdalena Jarvin
On Friday the 16th of September, 10.00-12.00, Marc Breviglieri and Magdalena Jarvin will hold a seminar. Marc will talk about “ease”, its emotional savings and its own value, and the … Continue Reading →
Master thesis
Elias Arnestrand has presented his master thesis Communicate Traffic Related Information. The text is available from the publications page.
Seminar with Alex Taylor
Alex Taylor held a seminar on Surface ecologies: moving beyond PC-based computing in the home. Background texts for the seminar are available at: [1] and [2].
John Paul Bichard at Dorkbot – shtlm meeting #3
John Paul Bichard gave a talk at crac, about his work, which covers the relationship between the game space and the ‘real’. More info can be found at dorkbot.
Member of the new competence center ”Transport telematics R&D Group Sweden”
The Mobility studio joins the newly founded virtual competence center ” Transport telematics R&D Group Sweden”. The Center has recently signed a contract with the Swedish National Road Adminstration to … Continue Reading →
Research on the social use of mobile phones in Swedish press
Several Swedish news papers (Norrländska Socialdemokraten, Piteå-Tidningen and Arbetarbladet) reports on Alexandra Weilenmann’s research on the use of mobile phones and especially on collaboration and social aspects of the technology.
New uses for mobile pervasive games
Oskar Juhlin and Matthew Chalmers will present a position paper on lessons learned for CSCW systems to support collaboration in vast work sites at the ECSCW’05 workshop on Computer Games … Continue Reading →
Accepted position paper
The paper Intermediate Interaction in Traffic, written by Daniel Normark and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to the ECSCW Workshop on Location-Awareness and Community at ECSCW’05.
Mobility in media
The Newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reports on the RoadTalk prototype, in an article on the SITI exhibition. Ny Teknik reports on the Soundpryer prototype (in Swedish only).