Litmus is the monthly newsletter of ACID, the
Australasian CRC for Interaction Design
1. ACID NEWS
:: ACID Appoints New Chief Executive, Suzannah Conway
In late February, ACID announced that it has appointed Suzannah Conway to
the position of Chief Executive Officer. Suzannah, an experienced senior executive in the
creative industries, has served as ACID's General Manager since January
2007.
Suzannah has also been appointed to the Board of ACID and to its
wholly-owned subsidiary, ACID Services Pty Ltd, the commercialisation company of the CRC.
Read the Media
Release...
:: ACID Announces Changes to Board of Directors
Also in late February, ACID announced the resignations of Dr Terry Cutler as the Chairman of
the Board of ACID, and Professor Mary O'Kane as a Board Director and Chair of the ACID Audit
Committee following their appointments to the independent panel for the Review of the National
Innovation System.
Read the Media
Release...
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2. RESEARCH AND PROJECT UPDATES
nnub public screen interface showing active
notices
:: nnub Goes Live at Moggill
The Urban Interfaces community hub prototype, nnub,
has gone live in the outer-Brisbane suburb of Moggill. The prototype consists of a
large-screen kiosk in a general store and caf� with an associated community portal for
creating notices.
For more information about nnub, visit the
nnub page at the
Suburban Communities website.
Interior of infopoint showing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth dongles (left), battery (bottom-right) and sealed CPU (top-right)
:: infopoint Prototype Installed Ahead of
Official Launch of the Fremantle Boat Harbour Heritage Trail
The Urban Interfaces infopoint prototype is being
installed at the Fremantle Boat Harbour ahead of an official launch of the new heritage trail
on 11 March.
The prototype delivers rich media content to visitors' mobile phones,
providing a platform for research into mobile experiences and interactions, user-generated
content and system architectures. The infopoint unit
is solar-powered and sealed for protection against the coastal climate. The prototype
includes a web interface for Fremantle Council to manage content and review logs. The
initial content (produced by John
McMullan at Murdoch University) is a dramatisation of an 1892 letter describing Fremantle as
"the worst damn hole I ever saw."
Click here to hear.
For more information about infopoint, visit the
infopoint page at the
Suburban Communities website.
Calling all ACID Researchers: If you’d like to let others at ACID know
about your work, just send the details to Litmus.
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2. ACID PEOPLE
:: Jeremy Yuille Appointed to IxDA Board of Directors
Last week, the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) announced the appointment of ACID
project leader and interaction designer, and RMIT University senior lecturer in communication
design, Jeremy Yuille to the IxDA Board of Directors. IxDA, a member-supported organisation
committed to serving the needs of the international interaction design community, was founded
in 2003 as an international nonprofit professional association to address the challenges that
interaction designers encounter in their professional lives.
Congratulations Jeremy!
About IxDA...
IxDA Board of
Directors...
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4. DATE CLAIMERS: Mark Your Diary Now!
:: Exhibitions
AV Jam
5 February - 22 March 2008, Beta_Space, The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
ACID
Network Jamming project
will host a public exhibition of the AV Jam system at Beta_Space in Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.
AV Jam uses dynamic music and video technologies that will allow anyone, from novice to expert,
to perform live in a virtual ensemble as a DJ or VJ.
For more information about the exhibition visit the
Beta_Space
website, and if you are in Sydney come and visit the exhibition, and have fun performing
audio visual improvisations with the AV Jam system. The Beta_Space is an experimental
environment within the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, sponsored by ACID and the
Creativity and Cognition Studios at UTS where the public can engage with the latest research
in art and technology.
:: Awards and Residencies
2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards
Entries due: 2 May 2008
Visit the ADAA website for more
info...
:: Professional Workshops
First International Workshop on Location on the Web (LocWeb 2008)
WWW 2008 Conference
22 April 2008, Beijing, CHINA
Visit the LocWeb
2008 website for more info...
Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability
Workshop
6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing
19–22 May 2008, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Visit Urban Informatics
for more info...
:: Calls for Papers
Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons
CCI International Conference
25 - 27 June 2008, Brisbane AUSTRALIA
Abstracts: 31 March 2008
Visit the CCI website for more
info...
Tangible and Embedded Interaction
A Special Issue of International Journal of Arts and Technology
Abstracts (optional): 2 April 2008
Paper submission: 21 April 2008
Visit the IJART website for more info...
Facial and Bodily Expressions for Control and Adaptation of Games (ECAG
'08)
2008 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture
Recognition
16 September 2008, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
Papers: 15 June 2008
Registration: 1 September 2008
Visit the ECAG '08
website for more info...
Persistent Conversation Minitrack, Digital Media and Content
Track
Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 42)
5-8 January 2009, Hawaii, USA
Abstracts: 15 March 2008
Papers: 15 June 2008
Visit the Persistent
Conversation homepage for more info...
:: Conferences
CHI 2008 Conference
5-10 April 2008, Florence ITALY
Visit the CHI 2008 website for more
info...
10th Virtual Reality International Conference (VRIC'08)
9-13 April 2008, Laval, FRANCE
Visit the VRIC'08 website for
more info...
SimTecT 2008 Simulation Conference
12-15 May 2008, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Visit the SimTecT 2008
website for more info...
IIT Institute of Design Strategy conference
15-16 May 2008, Chicago USA
Visit the IIT website for more info...
Graphics Interface 2008
28-30 May 2008, Windsor CANADA
Visit the GI2008 website
for more info...
7th International Conference on Interaction Design for Children
11-13 June 2008, Chicago USA
Visit the IDC2008 website
for more info...
3DPVT 2008: Fourth International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and
Transmission
18-20 June 2008, Atlanta USA
Visit the 3DPVT 2008 website
for more info...
New Views 2 Symposium
Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design
9-11 July 2008, London UK
Visit the New Views 2 website
for more info...
:: Calendar Call
If you have an event, meeting or conference date to share with ACID
colleagues, just e-mail us the info.
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5. INDUSTRY TIDBITS
Industry Tidbits is also available via ACID's new RSS feed.
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National Brain Power
Above and Beyond
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0
The Trouble
with Web 2.0
Virtual Smash Mouth Jam Planned for Intel Keynote
Game Biz Guns for Mainstream by Going Casual
Interview:
Ubisoft's Yannis Mallat Wants Emotional Games
MauroNewMedia: 2007 Annual
User Experience Design Review
BlackBerry's future lies in social networking
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