Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label research. Show all posts
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Revisiting Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, an on-line publication (includes links)
Aether is an on-line publication that focuses on the emerging and converging field of geographic media. Given my interest in interactive multimedia technology and the fact that Social Science was one of my undegraduate majors, it makes sense that many of the topics covered in Aether would appeal to me. I discovered Aether about a year or so ago, and shared some information about it in the following post: Aether- The Journal of Media Geography (A Convergence of Disciplines).
Volume Seven | Fall, 2010
Theme: Space and Sound: "Geographies of Music, Geographers Who Play Music"
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_07/volume_07.pdf
Volume Six | October 2010
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_06/volume_06.pdf
Volume One | November, 2007
"The premiere issue of Aether consists of a series of short essays by members of the editorial board. Each explores the author's personal interests in Media Geography and discusses the future direction of the field."
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_01/volume_01.pdf
Aether's "Who's Who"
Review Editor
San Diego State University
cedarboot@gmail.com
Editors
Contributors
Shawna Dark, Director
Center for Geographical Studies
Editorial Board
Paul C. Adams • University of Texas at Austin
Aether's "Special Thanks"
Stella Theodoulou, Dean • The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Department of Geography and the Environment
Aether is hosted by the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Northridge. In addition to the on-line publication, Aether has a blog, "Aether, The Blog of Media Geography", which is a great resource about workshops, events, and resources related to the focus of the publication.
Since a good number of the readers of this blog are graduate students, I decided to take the time to include in this post information and links that might be helpful to someone gathering information on a deeper level.
"Aether offers a forum that examines the geography of media, including cinema, television, the Internet, music, art, advertising, newspapers and magazines, video and animation. It is our goal to provide a space for contributions to current issues surrounding these media, beginning with constructions of space and place, cultural landscapes, society, and identity."
"We invite inquiries into the production, distribution, exhibition, and consumption of all types of media and thus we will offer critical, pedagogical and discursive content that views the world in new and exciting ways. We welcome submissions from anyone wishing to publish material that extends the boundaries of the traditional academic journal. We encourage work that is highly visual or aural, including video, and will actively promote material that makes use of our digital technologies."
I appreciate the fact that Aether's editors value the importance of using multimedia representation in scholarly research, embodied in the following quote from the introduction of Volume 3:
"All too often we remain wedded to textuality when it comes to presenting our research. However, as we move further into a world of advance capitalism driven by new information technologies and spaces of flow, streams of innovations, knowledge and ideas are increasingly circulated in non-textual formats. Academic geographers have long dabbled in video technology and the production of documentaries...We strongly encourage and support the use of multimedia productions in our journal and we hope we can offer an acceptable venue for those seeking to transcend (and even transgress) the knowledge-limiting restraints of traditional academic publications." - Jim Craine, Jason Dittmer, and Chris Lukinbeal, Aether, Volume Three
One of the good things about Aether is that all of the volumes can be freely downloaded from the website. For the convenience of knowledge-junkies, I've posted links to the past seven volumes, along with information/links about the editors and editorial board of Aether.
One of the good things about Aether is that all of the volumes can be freely downloaded from the website. For the convenience of knowledge-junkies, I've posted links to the past seven volumes, along with information/links about the editors and editorial board of Aether.
Volume Seven | Fall, 2010
Theme: Space and Sound: "Geographies of Music, Geographers Who Play Music"
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_07/volume_07.pdf
Volume Six | October 2010
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_06/volume_06.pdf
Volume Five a | March, 2010 (Edited by Tristan Thielmann)
Theme: Locative Media
"This special issue of Aether, edited by Tristan Thielmann, explores the spatial turn in media studies and the media turn in geographical studies, providing a sketch of the subject area “geomedia” from a phenomenological perspective and the field of “media geography” from a disciplinary perspective."
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_05a/volume_05a.pdfVolume Four | March, 2009
Theme: The Geography of Journalism (Edited by Mike Gasher)
"This special issue of Aether brings together six papers that address news geography on a range of scales. Each speaks to the question of how the news media position the people and places that constitute their particular communities."
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_04/volume_04.pdfVolume Three | June, 2008
"One of the main reasons Aether was developed as an ejournal was to offer authors alternative publishing outlets– something that went beyond the textural format of both traditional hard journals and text-based ejournals. Volume Three presents the first articles that justify these editorial goals."
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_03/volume_03.pdfVolume Two | April, 2008
Theme: Imagining Geography Through Interactive Media
"This special issue of Aether offers an examination of the utopian and dystopian representations of digital landscapes including narratives of colonialism, gaming as social space and the influence of historical ideologies on social game space plus much more."
"The premiere issue of Aether consists of a series of short essays by members of the editorial board. Each explores the author's personal interests in Media Geography and discusses the future direction of the field."
http://130.166.124.2/~aether/pdf/volume_01/volume_01.pdf
Aether's "Who's Who"
Review Editor
Giorgio Hadi Curti
San Diego State University
cedarboot@gmail.com
Editors
Jim Craine
California State University, Northridge
jwc53531@csun.edu
Jason Dittmer
University College London
j.dittmer@ucl.ac.uk
Chris Lukinbeal
The University of Arizona
chris.lukinbeal@arizona.edu
Contributors
Shawna Dark, Director
Center for Geographical Studies
Department of Geography
California State University, Northridge
shawna.dark@csun.edu
David Deis
Staff Cartographer
Department of Geography
California State University, Northridge
david.deis@csun.edu
Editorial Board
Paul C. Adams • University of Texas at Austin
Stuart C. Aitken • San Diego State University
David B. Clarke • Swansea University
Christina Dando • University of Nebraska, Omaha
Deborah Dixon • Aberystwyth University
Marcus Doel • Swansea University
Colin R. Gardner • University of California, Santa Barbara
Ken Hillis • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sarah F. Ives • Stanford University
Ed Jackiewicz • California State University, Northridge
John Paul Jones III • University of Arizona
Christina Kennedy • Northern Arizona University
Minelle Mahtani • University of Toronto
Susan Mains • University of the West Indies, Mona
Kevin McHugh • Arizona State University
Christopher M. Moreno • San Diego State University
Wolfgang Natter • Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Joseph Palis • University of the Philippines
Brent J. Piepergerdes • University of Kansas
Rob Shields • University of Alberta
Amy Siciliano • University of Wisconsin
Paul F. Starrs • University of Reno, Nevada
Dan Sutko • North Carolina State University
Jonathan Taylor • California State University, Fullerton
Stefan Zimmermann • University of Mainz
Leo Zonn • University of Texas
Aether's "Special Thanks"
Stella Theodoulou, Dean • The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
California State University, Northridge
stella.theodoulou@csun.edu
Darrick Danta, Chair • Department of Geography
California State University, Northridge
darrick.danta@csun.edu
Paul Adams, Communication Geography Specialty Group
Department of Geography and the Environment
University of Texas, Austin
Friday, September 24, 2010
Large Scale Networked Pervasive Public Displays- PD-NET (cross-post)
I love the concept of interactive, networked public displays! The PD-NET project has a fairly new website and a Facebook page. If this interests you, take the time to learn about the PD-NET project, a collaborative effort between researchers from several different universities in Europe. I'd like to see this take hold in the US. (Cross-posted on the Interactive Multimedia Technology blog.)
PD-NET Project Objectives (From the PD-NET Website):
- To create enabling technologies for large-scale pervasive display networks through the design, development, and evaluation of a robust, scalable, distributed and open platform for interconnecting displays and their sensors.
- To establish Europe as the international centre for work on pervasive display networks.
- To address key scientific challenges that may inhibit the widespread adoption of pervasive display network technology: Tensions between privacy and personalization, situated displays, business and legislative requirements, User Interaction.
Here is a list of participating universities and researchers, taken from the PD-NET website:
Lancaster University, (UK)
Participants from Lancaster:
University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Participants from Duisburg-Essen:
University of Lugano (Italy)
Participants from Lugano:
University of Minho (Portugal)
Participants from Minho:
Publication
J. Müller, F. Alt, D. Michelis, and A. Schmidt, "Requirements and Design Space for Interactive Public Displays," in Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (Multimedia 2010), to appear, 2010.
COMMENT
If you are familiar with this blog, you know that I am passionate about interactive displays, especially in public spaces. I've devoted numerous posts to this topic on this blog, and also on The World Is My Interactive Interface, a blog I started a few years ago when I was working on projects for large interactive displays.
I am interested in how interactive displays, of any size, can be accessible and universally designed, especially those that can inter-operate with mobile devices, including devices that support communication for people with special needs.
SOMEWHAT RELATED
Here are links to some of my previous blogposts related to the topic of interactive displays in public spaces. Some have links to scholarly publications. I
What is DOOH and Why Should We Care? (DOOH- Digital Out-Of-Home)
Interactive Displays and Interaction (Presentation via Daniel Michelis)
Monday, August 2, 2010
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Link to interview of Francois Vialatte, BCI researcher
Francois Vialatte is a Brain-Computer Interaction (BCI) research scientist at the Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing (ABSP), at the Brain Science Institute, RIKEN. Beginning in September 2010, he will be an assistant professor in the SIGMA lab, ESPCI ParisTech, in Paris, France. I'd like to share a link to his interview posted on the engineuring blog that focuses on Vialatte's research in the area of BCI, as well as the myths, misconceptions, and truths surrounding this fascinating area of study:
Brain-Computer Interfaces, hypnosis, Mind Machines, synchrony, migraine and publicity of science - Engineuring (Alexandra Elbakyan) 8/28/09
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Video Clip: Nokia's Study of Gestures Around the World (6th sense?)
The video explains it all.
The video is from the Nokia Conversations YouTube channel.
(Fritz Desir, thanks for the link!)
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Search for Researchers: Ubiquitous computing, large screen displays, touch screen displays & tables, and mobile devices
I am in the process of compiling list of links to researchers who are interested in off-the-desktop systems and applications that can seamlessly inter-operate with mobile and remote devices and systems, especially systems that include large-screen displays and touch-enabled tables or surfaces.
A variety of fields are involved in this area - interactive design, computer-supported collaborative work, embedded system design, industrial systems engineering, virtual reality, human factors, educational technology, mobile learning, computer & video game development, mobile computing, audio-visual media, new media, mobile marketing, GIS & geography/ geology, graphic design, computer music, interactive storytelling, etc. etc.
Here is a start:
Stacey D. Scott, Ph.D
Collaboration Technologies Researcher
University of Waterloo
Dr. Scott is the Program Co-Chair for Tabletop 2007 (IEEE Int'l) Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, held on October 10-12, 2007 in Newport, R.I., in conjunction with UIST 2007 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology)
The program for both conferences has a list of presenters and their topics, but no links.
Here are a few more links:
Desney Tan
Bill Buxton
Jeffery Han
Harry "Gravano" van der Veen
On the Tabletop(Stefano Baraldi)
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Putting People First blog from Experientia
I recently came accross the "Putting People First" blog when I was looking for information about usability and user-experience design. The blog focuses on "daily insights on user experience, experience design and people-centred innovation". The Putting People first blog is coordinated by Mark Vanderbeeken, from the experience-design company Experientia, located in Turin, Italy.
If you have an interest in user-centered design and related topics, take the time to explore the Putting People First blog, as well as the Experientia website.
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