DUL Radio is a newly developed piece of interaction hardware/embedded software that communicates via radio frequencies, hence the name. It is a work in progress, and therefore the software is rather sketchy.

For now, the configuration of DUL Radio sensorboards is only possible from Mac-Intel computers.

In the following we will describe how to set up the configuration application on your computer, which driver is needed for Windows 7 (for implementation sometime in the future), some code examples, plus a paper about the DUL Radio which was presented at the Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2011 Conference in Madeira.

Tags: hardware | mobile | publication

"Interface Criticism – Aesthetics Beyond the Buttons" is a new book edited by Digital Urban living and Digital Aestetics Research Center (DARC).

Interface Criticism is not another design manual but a critical investigation for readers interested in the aesthetic, cultural and political dimensions of interfaces. With contributions from leading researchers within the field, the book covers a wide range of aesthetic expressions – including urban screens, wearable interfaces, performances, games, net-art, software art, and sound art, and discusses how new cultures evolve around, for example, open source or live coding.

In conjunction with the conference, Public Interfaces, we have a book launch reception on wednesday januar 12, 16.00 at the Foyer, Ridehuset at Kasernen/Aesthetics, Langelandsgade.

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Conference and PhD workshop, 12-14 January, 2011, Aarhus University, Denmark

Tags: aesthetics | civic communication | conference | digital aesthetics | interface aesthetics | media facades | new urban areas

Digital Natives is an exhibition experiment about and with young people growing up in a digital age. The project explores the everyday cultures of these youngsters and experiments with new ways of exploring these cultures, using the newest interactive technologies.

Digital Natives is a practice-based research project experimenting with the intersections of anthropological research, participatory design and interactive technologies. The project concerns a generation of young people raised in a digital era surrounded by new media and information technologies, and whose life worlds are said to depart from that of previous generations, both mentally, socially and culturally. The project explores these young people's every cultures, identities and communication practices in a local setting and experiments with new ways of representing and interacting with these cultures in the context of a concrete arts/culture exhibition experiment. As such the aim is to create an inteactive exhibition experiment in collaboration with a group of young people (16-19y) that explores and expresses the lives and cultures of digital natives in Aarhus, year 2010.

Workshop at CHI 2011, 8 May 2011

..:: Camera ready extended abstract (pdf)

Please note: deadline for submission of position papers has been extended to 18 Feb. See below.

We often use personal digital technologies while public, and more and more public interfaces find their way into our everyday lives. Simultaneously, metaphors from performance and theatre studies find their way into research on these interfaces, addressing how interaction with technology can be understood in a performative sense. However, the term ‘performativity' is rarely addressed in ways that accentuate its nuances and its analytic power, and this is the focus of the workshop.

The workshop is relevant to media theorists, practitioners and/or designers interested in:

• Gestural interaction and on-body sensing (e.g. wearable computing/sensing, Wii, Kinect and proprietary systems)
• Interactive media art (e.g. installations, performances or mobile experiences)
• Public screens or installations (e.g. in public squares, airports, theme parks and science museums)
• Interfaces for use in public (e.g. kiosks, tangible and mobile interfaces)

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