Sunday 19 August 2007

Course on Max/MSP: 30.8.-31.8.2007

In the Leeds Met Summer School program, a two-day tutorial is held on 30. and 31. August about using Max/MSP and Jitter. This software is an essential tool for the creation of interactive electronic music.

Details about this tutorial and the registation form are available on the Leeds Met web site: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/inn/summer_school_max_msp_jitter.htm.

The tutorial is given by Leeds Met members of staff Richard Stevens, Dave Raybould, and Archibald Rees.

Thursday 9 August 2007

Launch of the Centre for Creative Technology

On 9. July 2007, one month ago, we officially launched the Centre for Creative Technology with an evening of demonstrations at the Leeds Met Headingley Campus.

The evening began with a welcome address by Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean Cath Orange, followed by an overview over the centre activities given by myself. The core of this talk was given by members of staff who gave a brief overview on their work related to the centre topics.

The presentation was followed by two hours of technology demonstrations, shown in the music studios in the James Graham Building. More information about the event and descriptions of the demonstrations are available on our website.

These demonstrations showed a wide variety of technologies and development prototypes, ranging from sensor interactions to artificial intelligence, from visual processing to electro-acoustic music compositions.

Wednesday 1 August 2007

Papers at HCII 2007 Conference

Two of our members of staff attended the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2007 (HCII) in Beijing. Marc Fabri chaired the session "Emotions in HCI: Theory, Synthesis and Evaluation" and gave the presentation of his paper "Emotionally Expressive Avatars for Chatting, Learning and Therapeutic Intervention". This paper was co-authored by Innovation North staff David Moore and Salima Y Awad Elzouki.

Reinhold Behringer chaired the session "Gesture Recognition" and gave a presentation of his paper "Gesture Interaction for Electronic Music Performance". He also presented the paper "Virtual and Mixed Reality Interfaces for e-Training: Examples of Applications in Light Aircraft Maintainance", where he was a co-author. The principal author Johannes Christian (Leeds Met) was unable to attend the conference. Further co-authors of this paper were Horst Krieger (ipcenter.at) and Andreas Holzinger (Medical University Graz).