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CHI 05 Workshop: Engaging The City: Public Interfaces As Civic Intermediary

As interest in the city as a viable site for HCI research grows, the organizers of this workshop aim to shift the research perspective from the architect's plan view to the street level. No longer reducing the city to a dense population of users, we challenge our participants to consider the city not just as a backdrop for interactions but as an inalienable part of interactions that happen within it. By reorienting ourselves, we move beyond the city as a muse to the city as a resource for public exchange.

This workshop is designed to explore notions of exchange within an urban landscape.
What relationships do we have with the city?
What do we give and take from it and each other in its embrace?
How is this exchange enacted in and upon the city in everyday life?
And how can technological innovation capture or foster this exchange?

The challenge for the HCI community is to design public interfaces that provide citizens with more active access, authorship, and agency. The workshops field research component will involve visiting the city of Portland as a case study for processing and refining these theoretical considerations.

We would like to gather a representative group of social scientists, technologists, urban planners, architects, artists, and des igners whose work addresses issues of shared public interfaces and interactions. Participants will be selected based on a demonstrated interest in the topic, seen through position papers that consist of:

* A discussion of background, interests, current work and relevance to workshop goals.
* An object/image/idea which represents an active exchange with the city
* Participants should be prepared to demonstrate this item's context within the theoretical framework of access, agency, and authorship.

Send submissions (Word or PDF) or questions to Michele Chang

Also see: http://hciresearch.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/engaging_cities/

=chris

Carefully Analyzed Crackpotism

Fall 2004 Interface Show
California College of the Arts
Oakland campus
Friday 17 Dec
7-10 PM

Exploring New Media artwork in all its incarnations, students from five graduate and undergraduate classes from the Media Arts and Sculpture Programs will present kinetic sculpture, robotic works, interactive environments, computer-aided performances, chaotic video games, and electro-acoustic audio pieces. Work will be shown in the Oliver Art Center, Nahl Hall, the Isabel Percy West Gallery, and the third floor of Founder's Hall. A reception will be held in the Oliver Art Center during the exhibition.

NPD Tradeshow this Saturday

For those who are still around the "New Product Development" class is having its end of semester tradeshow this Saturday.

Details:
Saturday 18th
10.30am -12.00
Wells Fargo room (Cheit hall), Haas

There's 17 different graduate projects from multidisciplinary teams of 4-5 members from Engineering, MBAs, CS, California College of Arts, SIMS and others.

You're all welcome to drop-by and see the projects. Food and drinks are provided.
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Berkeley Exoskeleton in NYT

See: Berkeley Exoskeleton

Exoskeleton Strength
By NOAH SHACHTMAN

Published: December 12, 2004

Last Grouptalk - Mon 5th Dec 12-1pm 107 South Hall

If you've been to a Grouptalk this semester then please come along for a last one tomorrow where we will discuss the Nature and format of Grouptalk and how to improve it for next semester. Thanks!
(and, as always, refreshments provided)
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Privacy and RFIDs in the library

Talk today, Thurs Dec 2nd, at 4.30 Gates 4-B

David Molnar seminar

David Molnar, Berkeley
Privacy and Security in Library RFID

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