Let me recommend you an interesting panel that will take place in Milan next Wednesday (Feb. 24th – 9.30 at DISCO, viale Sarca 336). Giorgio De Michelis and Alfonso Fuggetta will discuss about their latest paper "ICT e Innovazione: che fare?". The authors will discuss with Giancarlo Capitani, Roberto Galimberti, Roberto Masiero, Renzo Turatto and possibly some others. More info available on DISCo's Website and at: www.alfonsofuggetta.org/?p=7067 and www.irso.it/new/index.php/cantieri/81-italia-2013.
If you happen to be in Milan, it could be a nice chance to visit us (our company is right behind the Department of Informatics) and talk with us. If you'd...
The Itsme expedition has just come back from Bruxelles, where I and three other developers from the Tech team had a great time at FOSDEM 2010.
After a friday evening spent sightseeing that wonderful city, on saturday morning we reached the ULB Campus and joined the party with hundred of techies. It's been hard to choose which talks to follow among the huge schedule, composed by 200+ lectures spread in dozen of rooms, and in the end we attended many talks more or less related to the Itsme universe: some of us preferred Drupal, some others Mozilla, we...
We've participated in the Collective Intelligence for Organizations workshop at CSCW2010: many different visions and approaches have been presented by the various speakers (you can read the selected papers here) and several interesting discussions have taken place. Besides presentations, the participants have been split in different groups in order to discuss the problems related to defining a research agenda for Collective Intelligence (here the summary of the discussion). We really noticed that our proposal of working on workstations to achive a higher level of contribution to Collective Intelligence implicitly applies to, and could improve, every other proposal or...
On Thursday afternoon we gave an interactive demo at ECSCW09. We set up a table with a laptop and an additional monitor to present the emulator (on the laptop screen, smaller) and the prototype with the redesigned frontend (on the bigger screen). We think we had really a great feedback from the ECSCW community (both from senior and junior researchers) and besides the usual questions (like the ones we answered at C&T and EUD) our visitors stressed some other important points we are constantly reasoning on. For example, briefly:
How we plan to integrate with Google services, and GMail in particular....
UX Australia is Australia’s premier user experience design conference, that took place in Canberra, on August 26-28. The conference encompassed many aspects of user experience design, including core topics such as information architecture, interaction design, information design, content, visual design & strategy as well as the design of physical objects.
Itsme was invited to the conference in order to show the work done by the interaction design team.
The presentation started contextualizing the innovation potential of Itsme and the “stories and venues” metaphor with reference to the traditional OS, up to the description of the basic conceptual aspects of Itsme.
Then, moving from...
INTERACT 2009 was the twelfth of a series of INTERACT international conferences on Human computer interaction. This year INTERACT was held at Uppsala (Sweden), organized by the Swedish interdisciplinary interest group for human computer interaction (STIMDI) in cooperation with the department of information technology at Uppsala University. Interact 2009 highlighted, to both the academic and the industrial world, the importance of human-computer interaction and its most important breakthroughs in current applications. Giorgio De Michelis joined Liam Bannon to lead the Special interest group held at the conference under the topic "Designing interaction for next generation personal computing". Among others who...
Alessandro and I have been presenting itsme at Communities and Technologies 2009 in State College, Pennsylvania (USA). Our demo started with a very short description of the itsme idea (scenario and approach) and we went then into the details of the two things we have ready to be shown in these days: the emulator (try it out!) and our 0.3 technical prototype (still for internal use only, sorry).
We presented to quite a large number of people (we had three one-hour demo sessions) and –remember we are at an academic conference with people from the CSCW research area – we collected...
Innovation dinner was held last week at the lago appartment, Giorgio and Nico also participated in it. From what i heard from nico is that it was an interesting evening with lot of brainstorming, many stimuli, which could be quite difficult to be structured into a post. However, we managed to gathered some links that might give you an idea about what the dinner was all about.
Some notes by Matteo penzo ,where Giorgio has been quoted twice.
Twitter feed by emilabirascid and innodinner
Photostream of Marco...
We have been the opening act of CTS 2009: the 10th International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems. Honestly, we feared having a very few people: we were starting early and maybe participants could arrive later. We've been instead extremely pleased to have a very large (and elegantly furnished) room with 25-30 people inside following our tutorial and asking smart questions both during the talks and during the breaks.
The tutorial was splitted in two parts:
During the firs part, Giorgio presented the itsme vision grounding on CSCW ideas. This was an essential part to make the tutorial alike to a teaching...
We came to Massachussets – en route from Sanibel to Baltimore – essentialy for two reasons:
consolidate our relations with Sugarlabs: we met the director of the initiative and discovered an ongoing convergence between our two projects. It really seems we can get together to develop some pieces of software together. Probably a first official step in this direction might be the organization of a joint worksop durin an open source conference soon (so stay tuned for more details)
get feedback on our project from researchers at MIT media lab: we had the chance to give a short talk to the members...
