It's been a whirlwind of meetings and interesting papers. Lovely meeting with Christoph H. which allowed us to talk about the new user interface for the analytic portions of the new People Watcher app.
I managed to also speak about the synergy between interaction and software engineering at the software engineering special interest group meeting.
I had lunch with Paul Marshall and friends and it was lovely to sit in a French restaurant discussing heavy scientific issues. One thing that we discussed was the new replication CHI. I'm not sure exactly what replication CHI is about but if it is about replicating papers that have been published that cannot be a bad thing.
After a day full of papers I was then able to go along to the interaction event which kept me moving around for two hours.
This is from the University of Nottingham. All the plate patterns you see are in fact cleverly composed binary codes which a computer vision system can use to identify the plate. Nottingham do show what you can do when computer scientists collaborate with artists. Ceramic artists in this case
This was an interface designed to sit on a dancer's back as a kind of external spine which, I think, also controlled sound or music.
This was a nice interface designed to allow you to create multiple devices by turning the slab into different shapes.
Could your next computer be pen and paper? Possibly with this interface. Here anoto pens are used to draw music which you can then hear played back from the computer.
During the into action event I bumped into a Ph.D. student from London who turned out to be have a ADHD, I managed to pontificate about Neurodiversity having these chats is allowing me to clarify a lot of issues in my head. I hope my 10 minute talk can match do Neurodiversity justice.
After interaction I had dinner with Eva H. and some German colleagues. I get the feeling that Eva is very happy in her new job as Prof of interaction at the Bauhaus.
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