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Mobile Probes On June 26th, a consortium involving Interactive Spaces/The Alexandra Institute was granted 3,7 mill. Dkr. for the project "Mobile Probes". The aim with the project is to digitalize the probes-method on a mobile platform, and through this find new ways to make the process more efficient and useable. Interactive Spaces/The Alexandra Institute will be participating as experts on the cultural probe method, contributing with knowledge and experiences on working with user-oriented design within the focus area of the institute.   [more] Jul 1st, 2008, 13:54

Paper accepted for ACM Multimedia 2008 An Interactive Spaces research paper has been accepted for the ACM Multimedia 2008, Interactive Arts Program, October 27 to November 1, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada. The paper is entitled "Interactive Spatial Multimedia for Communication of Art in the Physical Museum Space" by Karen Johanne Kortbek and Kaj Grønbæk. The acceptance rate at the conference was 17%. [more] Jun 29th, 2008, 19:11

Two papers accepted for NordiCHI Two Interactive Spaces research papers have recently been accepted for the NordiCHI conference in Lund, Sweden, October 20-22, 2008: "Designing for Participation in Public Knowledge Institutions" by Peter Dalsgaard, Christian Dindler and Eva Eriksson; and "Communicating Art through Interactive Technology: New Approaches for Interaction Design in Art Museums" by Karen Johanne Kortbek and Kaj Grønbæk. Of a total of 139 full papers submitted only 42 were selected for the conference. [more] Jun 20th, 2008, 13:12

Two papers accepted for Hypertext 2008 Two Interactive Spaces research papers have recently been accepted for the Hypertext 2008 conference in Pittsburgh, US, June 19-21, 2008: "User-defined Structural Searches in MediaWiki" by Johannes Albertsen and Niels Olof Bouvin; "Social Web Applications in the City: A Lightweight Infrastructure for Urban Computing" by Frank Allan Hansen and Kaj Grønbæk. [more] Jun 1st, 2008, 10:43

Interactive Spaces in DR1 TV Wednesday May 7th, several Interactive Spaces projects were described in the DR1 programme "Morning with Nis Boesdal". Nis Boesdal made a portrait of PhD student Karen Johanne Kortbek. The clip can be found on DR1. [more] May 8th, 2008, 20:16

New project - The Copenhagen Fortress Complex On March 6th, a Consortium involving Interactive Spaces/The Alexandra Institute won the bidding on a large project with the objective to develop interactive experiences for the Copenhagen Fortress Complex (Københavns Befæstning). The aim is to revitalize the huge Fortress Complex as a world class tourist attraction. The Consortium is lead by Bysted PR and Die Asta Experience and the total budget is 25 mill. Dkr. This makes the project among the largest interactive experiences projects in Denmark. The project is funded by Realdania, Skov og Naturstyrelsen, and Kulturarvsstyrelsen. Interactive Spaces/The Alexandra Institute will be a main provider of knowledge and technologies for development of location based information services and interactive buildings creating novel types of interactive experiences. [more] Mar 6th, 2008, 22:15

New Innovation Manager for Interactive Spaces Peter Gall Krogh has been appointed the new Innovation Manager for Interactive Spaces in the Alexandra Institute from February 1st 2008. Peter will become responsible for development of Technical Services in the area of Interactive Spaces as well as management of the increasing consultancy project portfolio that are generated by the research activities in Center for Interactive Spaces. Peter will still maintain the role as the Center's liasson to the Aarhus School of Architecture. [more] Jan 28th, 2008, 23:28

Imagine Domestic Interiors Workshop, Aarhus January 20-22 Interactive Spaces is hosting the first international Workshop on Interactive and Adaptive Furniture. The Workshop takes place in Aarhus from January 20th - 22nd, with participation from a wide range of internationally recognized research environments. for further info please refer to: http://www.interactivespaces.net/imagine/ [more] Jan 18th, 2008, 14:39

Interactive Spaces Received a Red Dot Design Award for the Wisdom Well November 30th 2007, at 7 PM, Center for Interactive Spaces received the "red dot: best of the best award" for the Wisdom Well (Vidensbrønden) design concept, in the red dot design museum, Singapore. The Wisdom Well is developed by researchers at Center for Interactive Spaces associated Aarhus University, Aarhus School of Architecture, and the Alexandra Institute in Århus in collaboration with Arkitema, Søren Jensen A/S, Dansk Data Display and Århus Municipality. The project is funded through Århus Municipality with support from Oticon Fonden, Boligfonden Kuben and NCC A/S. The background research was initiated in the ISIS Katrinebjerg iSchool project. See pictures from the Award ceremonial in Singapore. [more] Dec 3rd, 2007, 09:00

Interactive Spaces Contribute to Mariko Mori Exhibition On October 12th, the exhibition with the Japanese artist Mariko Mori called "Oneness" opened at the ARoS art museum in Aarhus. His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik, the Japanese ambassador and the mayor of Aarhus attended the opening. Center for Interactive Spaces/The Alexandra Institute Ltd. has developed interactive sound installations with the artist's speak as well as three interactive contemplation rooms exhibiting some of the inspirational material behind Mariko Mori's work. The sound installations and the contemplation rooms were designed in collaboration with ARoS, Zentropa Interaction, DIEM and TEKNE. Click "more" to read about the rooms and watch pictures. [more] Oct 19th, 2007, 08:56

New platform supported by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation Researchers from Center for Interactive Spaces are part of a new research project with Terma A/S, The Danish Agricultural Advisory Service, National Centre (DAAS), Systematic Software Engineering A/S, and the Alexandra Institute entitled "A platform for Galileo based pervasive positioning". The Platform has a total budget of 48 mio dkr and receives 25 mio dkr. in support from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation. Press articles in Danish are found e.g. in Engineeting Weekly. [more] Oct 1st, 2007, 00:49

"Interactive Masterpiece in the Aarhus Festival" The semacode based mobile platform developed in the Center for Interactive Spaces was used as the basis for the AudioMove drama “Korridor”. Korridor was written and performed by the theater Katapult during the 2007 Århus Festuge. In the play the audience was equipped with mobile phones and headsets and sent out into the streets of Aarhus where they would scan tags, listen to the play, receive sms messages and phone calls and encounter real life actors. The play received nice reviews in the press. Mikkel Ottow from MetroXpress gave if 5 out of 6 stars and wrote: “An interactive masterpiece: The play demonstrated a well-working, simple and impressive interactive technology which have not been seen in Denmark before.” [more] Sep 21st, 2007, 11:06

Tagging the City During the 2007 Aarhus Festival (Aarhus Festuge) which ran from August 31st to September 9th, the Center for Interactive Spaces demonstrated a mobile blogging system based around 2D-barcodes. The mobile system supported information from the Aarhus Festival’s CMS to be linked to visual tags placed at specific places in the city of Aarhus, so users could receive updated, location-based information on their mobile phones simply by scanning the tags. Each tag also had an associated Weblog so users could easily leave their impression or photos and videos on the tag or read blog entries from other users. The blog functionality was built into the mobile application so everything could be done while in the city. Links within. [more] Sep 17th, 2007, 10:10

IXP presentation in London On July 4th Peter Krogh and Christian Dindler gave a talk at a Colloquium at the National Liberal Club in London on the recently developed prototypes in the IXP project. For further information on the prototypes please click here. The colloquium was organized by the research group Work, Interaction and Technology at King’s College London under the title: Enhancing the object: creating new forms of engagement in museums and galleries. [more] Jul 30th, 2007, 14:14

New project supported by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation Researchers from Center for Interactive Spaces are part of a new research project with Bang & Olufsen and the Alexandra Institute entitled "Mobile Home Center". The project has a total budget of 20 mio dkr and receives 10 mio dkr. in support from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation. Press articles in Danish are found e.g. in Jyllands Posten. [more] Jul 5th, 2007, 20:27

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