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CfP: CHI2012 Workshop W30
Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities
Date: Sunday 6th May 2012
Once again the ChiCI Group will be running one of its famous workshops at CHI. This year the topic will be COOL.
Cool is perhaps the most coveted goal of design while also being the least well understood and most elusive. This workshop builds upon previous work by the authors in understanding and designing for cool. Current literature and work on cool predominantly focuses on specific demographics of society without exploring its broader application. This workshop aims to explore and discuss the notion of cool and how it crosses the boundaries of continents, cultures and communities. This workshop aims to gather a deeper understanding of the different facets and contexts of cool, and whether cool as a concept can be globally defined.
For more information about the workshop and how to participate please go to: http://www.chici.org/cool2012
JamMo Software Released
For the past 3 years the ChiCI Group has been involved with the UMSIC project (Usability of Music for the Social Inclusion of Children), which is an interdisciplinary EU project, with partners in the UK, Finland, Switzerland and Greece. As a part of this project, a new open-source mobile music-making game has been developed for children, called JamMo (Jamming Mobile). Over 600 children across Europe have been involved with this project to date, in participatory design of the product, and in iterative testing and evaluation of prototypes. Two versions of the JamMo software have now been released: one aimed at children aged 3-6, and one aimed at 7-12 year olds. The software was designed to run on the Nokia N9 series, but is also freely available for Ubuntu users. The games involve musical composition, improvisation and exploration, including collaborative networked play across a peer-to-peer wireless network. For more information about JamMo, visit the project website at http://www.umsic.org/jammo/. |
