Last updated Nov 12 2009
Here are the lab talks currently scheduled, empty weeks will be updated nearer the time. If you have any comments or queries, please contact the lab talk list maintainer, Stefan Rennick Egglestone.
| Jan | 2 |
Christmas
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| 9 |
Catch up meeting
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| 16 |
Rachel Jacobs - Guest Talk
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Rachel Jacobs, Active Ingredient
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| 23 |
Guest Talk: Theresa Caruana
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Virtual Immersion for Outdoor Public Space
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| 30 |
Dave Lloyd
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Sharepoint demo
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| Feb | 6 |
Guest Talk: Andy Manches
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| 13 |
Ben Bedwell
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| 20 |
Chris Greenhalgh
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| 27 |
Joel Fischer
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Experiences of PARC
Joel has recently returned from an internship at PARC, so will be giving a talk about his experiences and some of the work that is going on there.
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| Mar | 6 |
Catch up meeting
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| 13 |
Mark Rawlinson: Guest Talk
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Dr Mark Rawlinson, Department of Art History, University of Nottingham
Curata: 3D Gallery software |
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| 20 |
Bernd Ploderer: Guest Talk
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PhD Candidate, Department of Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
In my PhD I study the adoption of social network sites for activities related to peoples passions. As a first case I chose the extreme passion of bodybuilding. Using an ethnographic approach I try to unveil how bodybuilders integrate online resources with their training regimes, and how online contacts help to fuel their passion |
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Sam Watkins: Guest Talk
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Strategic University Research Group, BT Innovate
"Employee of the Future" - presentation on Enterprise 2.0, use of social software in the business environment. |
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| Apr | 3 |
Catch up meeting
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| 10 |
Easter
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Joe Marshall
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Interactive Art Makes Me Want to Rock Out
Most current 'exergaming' and exercise related interactive art, is very much using the art element of the work in order to encourage or cajole people to do exercise, which is seen as some kind of socially good thing. I'm going to talk about how this is boring, artistically uninteresting and is missing the point. In other more established artforms, physical activity is made an interesting and integral part of the activity, which creates altered states of mind which in turn alter the way in which the artwork is experienced. I will introduce 3 examples of projects I've worked on which use physical activity in (what I think are) interesting ways, and some general guidelines for using physical activity in interactive art.
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| 24 |
Stefan Rennick-Egglestone
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Using biosensed data in non-medical applications
Biosensed data has been used in medical diagnosis for hundreds of years. However, with the increasing availability of cheap, reliable and portable biosensing devices, other applications are now possible, and these have included, for some time, sports heart rate monitors and computer games. I'm interested in analyzing the design of existing non-medical biosensing applications, and using this analysis to inform the design of future applications. I'm going to start in this lab talk by analyzing F:TL, O:TL and Heartlands, three MRL experiences that have made use of biosensed data in different ways. I'm going to present a tentative design framework for discussion, which I'm hoping to expand at a later date. I'm hoping that this framework might form the core of a PhD, and I'm hoping to get some comments on what I've presented from members of the lab.
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| May | 1 |
Catch up meeting
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| 8 |
Mark Paxton
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| 15 |
Adriano Galati
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| 22 |
Fernando Martinez
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| 29 |
Tom Rodden
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Inpromptu talk
Tom filled in an empty slot caused by the absence of a speaker
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| Jun | 5 |
Catch up meeting
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Ben Bedwell
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Baghdad 2009
'Baghdad 2009 ' is an interactive artwork that illustrates for the viewer the process of creating a live public projection artwork for the city of Baghdad. The content produced by artist Theresa Caruana represents her steps along the creative journey that concludes with a large-scale public artwork in Baghdad. The social, scientific, technological and historical information relating to Rivers and Baghdad that inspire Caruanas creative process are mapped within 'Baghdad 09 ' for the viewer to explore. The piece will be presented at the Benjamin Franklin House museum in London on the 22nd June. We will be presenting and testing the installation during the lab talk with an emphasis on giving you all ample chance to have a go and give feedback in order to influence our presentation of it in London.
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| 26 |
Dominic Price
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| Jul | 3 |
Catch up meeting
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| 10 |
Hazel Glover
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Talk by "Urban Digital"
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| 17 |
Leif Oppermann
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Improving my Methodology
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| 24 |
Keith Oliver
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| 31 |
Neil Madden
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I will give a debrief on the "Ulrike and Eamon Compliant" project with Blast Theory that myself and Martin worked on for the Venice Biennale last month. I'll also give an overview of the EDUCATE EU project I'm starting to work on with Brian Logan -- a collaboration with the School of the Built Environment and various European schools of architecture -- to build an e-learning portal for teaching students about environmentally sustainable/energy efficient building design.
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| Sep | 4 |
Catch up meeting
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Tom Lodge
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| 18 |
Duncan Rowland
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| 25 |
Mark Paxton
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Ubicomp presentation
Mark will practice a presentation that he is giving at Ubicomp.
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| Oct | 2 |
Catch up meeting
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| 9 |
Steve Benford
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Sue Jones
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External talk by Will Bowden - The invisible town as a visitor experience
The Roman town at Caistor St. Edmund in Norfolk was abandoned around 1200 years ago. What was a planned town with streets, baths, temples and a population of thousands now lies beneath open fields grazed by sheep. Caistor is now the focus of a University of Nottingham research project aimed at answering some key questions relating to the town and its history. However, conveying the idea of the town to the visiting public and allowing them to experience something of what the town was like is extremely difficult when the reality is a flat and fairly uninteresting field. With Gary Priestnall from the School of Geography I am exploring ways of using mobile technologies to provide visitors with informative and enjoyable ways to experience the site that will also allow them to question the interpretations they are given.
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| 23 |
Holger Schnadelbach
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| 30 |
Kevin Glover
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| Nov | 6 |
Catch up meeting
External speaker
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Tavs Jorgensen
The focus of our cluster research is to investigate how digital technology can be used to facilitate the creation of new models of creative practice. In this broad field we concentrate our research on practices which have outputs of physical artefacts (all cluster members have backgrounds as craft or design practitioners). You can learn more about our cluster on: www.autonomatic.org.uk As a cluster we are very keen to establish links with other research groups and centres and therefore keen to learn more about MRL and explore possible avenues for linking up. Furthermore, I am currently working on a commission for a immersive exhibition concept for the Craft Council, which is likely to include to use of mixed reality, therefore I thought it would be interesting to make contact to MRL in relation to this particular project.
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| 13 |
Catch up meeting
Dave Kirk
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| 20 |
External speaker
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Andy Manches
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| 27 |
External speaker
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Renan Krishna (Sussex)
Plato-graphical models for robust ubiquitous service composition. |
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| Dec | 4 |
Catch up meeting
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| 11 |
Catch up meeting
Martin Flintham
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| 18 |
Catch up meeting
Paul Tennent
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MRL Lab Talk List
The list below shows all the people currently part of the MRL. It is ordered by the date they last gave a talk if it was recorded. This should give an indication of when each person is expected to be scheduled. Anyone scheduled above has been moved to the end of the list in corresponding order. For any corrections or updates, please contact Stef, as above.
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