Lansdown Lecture - Mikael Wiberg from Umeå, Sweden on
architecturally situated interaction design - 20 February 2008 - London
This public lecture is free. All welcome.
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: [log in to unmask]
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 Umeå’s
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- (“Interaction through Textures”)
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
Lansdown
Lectures
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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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