Friday 30 November 2007

C3KE Seminar: U. Leeds, Dance Performance and Technology

On Friday, 30.11. the "Centre for Creative and Cultural Knowledge Exchange" (C3KE) organised a lunch-time seminar for its members at Bates Mill in Huddersfield University. The topic of this seminar was a presentation by Sita Popat and Scott Palmer from Leeds University about their work on the interrelation of dance and projective technology. Very interesting was the option of using an IR camera to track the motion of the dancer and feeing this back into a computing system, which in turn would then present visual projections into the environment of the dancer.

Thursday 22 November 2007

At USAB 2007, Graz

In Graz the 3rd Symposium of the WG HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society took place on 22. November 2007, devoted to the theme "Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care". A very interesting day of parallel sessions with presentations from various areas within this large domain. Leeds Met was represented by myself (Reinhold Behringer) - I gave a talk on our paper "Some Usability Issues of Augmented and Mixed Reality for e-Health Applications in the Medical Domain" with the authors Reinhold Behringer, Johannes Christian, Andreas Holzinger, and Steve Wilkinson.

Thursday 15 November 2007

Visit at Goldsmiths College, London

Professor William Latham is an authority in the area of evolutionary graphics, with his groundbreaking work on organic shapes and graphical mutation. He just recently had accepted a post at Goldsmiths College after being a Professor here at Leeds Met, and I (Reinhold Behringer) wanted to catch up with him and discuss joint projects. So I took a southbound train to London and spent an afternoon with him and his colleagues discussing artistic and technological issues and possible collaborations. Especially of interest is the area of morphing between video and audio / music: how can the aestethical principles of the visual domain be translated into the aestethical rules of the acoustic domain and vice versa?