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Paper accepted for inclusion in the Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing A paper entitled "Scheduling and Development Support in the Scavenger Cyber Foraging System" has been accepted for inclusion in the Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). [more] Aug 13th, 2010, 11:15

SwingScape – a festival succes! During the Roskilde festival, you could see and experience SwingScape – the music installation which gives you the possibility to remix your own songs using your body. The 15m x 15m, and 4 m high, installation soon became a popular event on the festival; both as a playful interactive installation bringing people together with music and as a visual meeting point for some of the 75.000 visitors. [more] Jul 7th, 2010, 08:23

UFOscope at Aarhus Main Library UFOscope is a prototype developed within the Playing Families project. The aim of the project is to obtain knowledge about families and play and to test models and concepts for families with children, especially within play and play culture in relation to libraries. During week 26 visitors can test UFOscope at the main library in Aarhus. Afterwards the prototype will be placed in Aalborg during the weeks 30-31 and at Randers library during the weeks 32-33. [more] Jun 28th, 2010, 11:41

Paper accepted for Hypertext 2010 in Toronto, Canada The paper Hansen, F. A. & Grønbæk, K.: 'UrbanWeb: a Platform for Mobile Context-aware Social Computing' has been accepted for the 2010 Hypertext conference in Toronto, Canada http://www.ht2010.org/. [more] Jun 4th, 2010, 13:38

TacTowers has been tested by elite handball players The competition was strong when the handball players from Bjerringbro-Silkeborg tested the preliminary prototype of the training tool TacTowers on March 23 2010. The new elected winners of the group play in the men's league provided important input when they tested the iSports training tool TacTowers.The project is part of the Interactive Spaces research center and is based on the handball sport. The focus is to train split vision, speed as well as the ability to think tactically in stressful situations, and in the test of TacTowers, the elite players were indeed challenged in several ways. [more] Apr 13th, 2010, 14:40

Culture, business and technology in a new and innovative partnership The Alexandra Institute, The Katapult Theatre and Arla Foods have developed a new and interactive game, which works via mobile tags. The game will set new standards for the dissemination of ecology to children and adults - on the farms. [more] Apr 8th, 2010, 13:34

Paper accepted for Mobile HCI 2010 The paper Hansen, A. B, Krogh, P. G, Petersen, M. G, and Winther, I. W. 'Tactics for Homing in Mobile Life - A Fieldwalk Study of Extremely Mobile People' has been developed by the Mobile Home Center project and has been accepted for Mobile HCI 2010 http://mobilehci2010.di.fc.ul.pt/ [more] Mar 25th, 2010, 07:08

SwingScape "Ånd og Vidensfestivalen" at Roskilde is a completely new winter festival. A two-day cavalcade of activities and experiences taking place in February 2010 which will light up the streets, buildings and residents of Roskilde. It will focus on scientific knowledge and spiritual breathing space, to create a festival with an ambitious complex program of activities and experiences for all residents. Interactive Spaces has developed the installation "SwingScape" - an interactive installation that comes into play at the visitor's physical activities. The installation invites people into an activity which most of us know from our childhood; to swing. [more] Feb 5th, 2010, 08:52

”Echoes of the City” – an interactive installation at Roskilde library Interactive Spaces transforms Roskilde library into an experience space that immerse the user in the information flow between the library and the surrounding city. Pulse, atmosphere, sound and movements from the city are transformed to live interactive installations. "Echoes of the city" can be experienced on 10th - 24 February during library opening hours. [more] Feb 5th, 2010, 08:44

Galileo paper accepted at Pervasive The paper: Kjærgaard, M.B., Blunck, H., Godsk, T., Toftkjær, T., Christensen, D.L., Grønbæk, K. 2010, "Indoor Positioning Using GPS Revisited", has been accepted for the Eight International Conference on Pervasive Computing. [more] Jan 11th, 2010, 11:30

Locusts paper accepted for PerCom 2010 A full paper entitled "Scavenger — Transparent Development of Efficient Cyber Foraging Applications" by Mads Darø Kristensen will be presented at IEEE PerCom 2010(acceptance rate 12%) in Mannheim, Germany. [more] Dec 21st, 2009, 15:33

Bright Green succes - Nu også på VTU I weekenden bidrog Alexandra i samarbejde med CISS, CSI og en lang række private firmaer med en stor udstilling på Bright Green Expo i Forum i København i anledning af COP15, se www.swkorridor.dk/en/the_energy_aware_house. [more] Dec 16th, 2009, 16:12

Galileo Platform project featured in DR2 Viden Om November 10, the research activities from the Galileo Platform project were featured in the DR2 Viden Om broadcast about the "GPS Revolution". The Viden Om broadcast can be found on dr.dk/videnom. The main focus of the clip was on our research into indoor positioning and in particular the FireSafe system being developed in collaboration with Systematic. The Galileo Platform project is supported by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation and it is managed by the Alexandra Institute. [more] Nov 10th, 2009, 22:36

RETHINK – Contemporary Art & Climate Change RETHINK - Contemporary Art & Climate Change is an art exhibition that thematises climate changes through 26 art works created by Nordic and international contemporary artists working in the intersection of arts, climate changes and culture. The Alexandra Institute Ltd. has been the initiator of the exhibition which opened October 29th at Moesgård Museum in Århus, and on October 30th in Copenhagen at the National Gallery of Denmark, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art and Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center. [more] Nov 9th, 2009, 14:00

HIKUINs Vendetta - a public Mobile Urban Drama developed by the Center for Interactive Spaces "HIKUINs Vendetta" premiered on August 31 2009. HIKUINs vendetta is a Mobile Urban Drama developed as part of the mobile, urban activities in the center for Interactive Spaces and the Alexandra Institute. The Mobile Urban Drama is developed to run on the users' own mobile phones and utilizes a QR-code based infrastructure to provide the digital-physical links between the drama and the real-time city. [more] Oct 1st, 2009, 14:45

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