[Sigia-l] Lansdown Lecture - Mikael Wiberg from Umea, Sweden on architecturally situated interaction design - 20 February 2008 - London

[Stephen Boyd Davis]

Lansdown Lecture - Mikael Wiberg from Umeå, Sweden on architecturally
situated interaction design - 20 February 2008 - London


This public lecture is free. All welcome.


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Summary
+ Interactive Architecture or Interaction through Textures

+ Mikael Wiberg, Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics, Umeå
University, Sweden 

+ Date: Wednesday 20 February 2008

+ Time: 4:50pm for one hour

+ Location: Middlesex University, London, EN4 8HT
   Cat Hill Campus: Room 137


Enquiries
Stephen Boyd Davis: s.boyd-davis at mdx.ac.uk


Interactive Architecture or Interaction through Textures
Our built environment is undergoing a transformation in terms of
digitalization. Computers are embedded into our physical environment and
small computational devices accompany us as we move about. Mainly installed
for functional purposes, digital technology is now beginning to be seen as a
design material in support of social interaction, play and experiences.
Researchers now address concepts such as ubiquitous computing, interactive
architecture, responsive environments, media places, hybrid spaces, ambient
intelligence, and digital art installations.

Mikael Wiberg will address this development and present Umeå¹s research in
Interactive Architecture, particularly ArchITechtum, an architecturally
situated interaction design project in the design of digital devices
informed by architectural thinking and environmental psychology; and the
implications of work on embedded public displays at the ICEHOTEL. He will
also present an IT- (³Interaction through Textures²) framework for
interactive architecture built on the notion of the interaction society,
built environments as communicated persistent structures, and ephemeral
interaction, graceful interaction, and interaction landscaping ­ important
human elements for understanding interaction through interactive
architecture.


About the speaker
Mikael Wiberg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at
Umeå University, Sweden. His Ph.D. in Informatics at Umeå 2001 was in the
design of mobile CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) for ongoing
interaction.

His current research focuses on the emerging Interaction Society and related
issues of mobile CSCW, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence,
availability management, interactive architecture, and interaction design.
He edited a book on The Interaction Society (2004) and has published in
international journals including ToCHI, BIT, IEEE Network, IEEE Pervasive
Computing, WebNet Journal, International journal of Educational technology &
Society, and international conferences including CHI, GROUP, Mobile HCI,
HCI. His current project is [x]ID ­ Interaction Design in eXtreme
environments.


Mikael Wiberg site: http://www.informatik.umu.se/~mwiberg/



Venue
Room 137
Middlesex University
Cat Hill
Barnet
Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom

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Date and time
Wednesday 20 February at 4:50pm






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Stephen Boyd Davis
Reader in Interactive Media
Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts
Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT
United Kingdom
Tel 44 (0)20 8411 5072
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