Seminar at Umeå University

Mattias Esbjörnsson will give a talk at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, 4th of May.

Funding from SSF

The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) has decided to financially support the commercialization of the Backseat games projects.

Backseat Playground in the press

The Swedish journals Dagens Industri and Computer Sweden reports on the Microsoft Research funding of the Backseat Playground project (in Swedish only).

Funding from Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research has decided to fund the Backseat Playground project with 80 000 Euro during a year. The project was selected, with seven others, from 160 applicants from Europe, on … Continue Reading →

Accepted paper

The paper Mobile Phone Talk in Context written by Mattias Esbjörnsson and Alexandra Weilenmann has been accepted to Context’05.

Read about Daniel Normarks research

Daniel Normark is interviewed in Metro [link] (Swedish only) about his research on young passengers behaviour in the vicinity of bus stops.

Accepted paper

The paper Road Talk: A roadside location-dependent audio message system for car drivers written by Mattias Östergren and Oskar Juhlin has been accepted to Journal of Mobile Multimedia.

Grant from Nordic Road Association

Daniel Normark received a grant from the Nordic Road Association to conduct a pre-study on the behaviour of young passengers in the vicinity of bus stops.