Monthly Archive for February, 2006

Multi-touch interaction research

Jeff Han team at NYU Media Research Lab, developed a very interesting prototype for multi-touch interaction based on bi-manual, multi-point and multi-user interaction on a graphical interaction surface.

One of the most interesting and promising demos I’ve bumped into. Take a look at the impressive video here.

DSV-IS’2006

Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems: DSV-IS 2006 Final and updated Call for Papers

July 26-28, 2006, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

In Co-operation with ACM SIGCHI, Eurographics, the BCS HCI group and IFIP WG 13.5

Submission Deadline: February 24, 2006
(Electronic submission now open)

Workshop on Multi-channel Adaptive Context-sensitive (MAC) Systems

First International Workshop on Multi-channel Adaptive Context-sensitive (MAC) Systems, University of Glasgow, May 15th 2006, Check the CFP.

How our brain decodes information

This one is exclusively for Portuguese readers, but reminds me of one of the great books I’ve read last year “On Intelligence” by J. Hawkins (aka the man behind Palm and Handspring):

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