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ISIE 3 and 4

Chronicle of the second and third to Cambridge. These last two days have been interesting though perhaps less in terms of previous interventions on stage. In return we got to talking and getting to know other interesting people and have a look at the demo section and more approdondito the poster where we found some interesting ideas such as Xsensor (an application for smartphones and PDAs that you submit, at regular intervals, a questionnaire, which is then compiled at different times of day and context in which the interviewee is in that time) or as funny reactable conducted by two English boys (moving a table in which specific objects of different shapes and materials can compose music). Unfortunately we have not seen in the light of the demo project Augmented hybrid ecosystems (ie, the dancing pig pro ject) that we had submitted the first day. Returning to the speech ... On the second day I was called by the Expert panel with Don Norman, Liam Bannon, Mark Rouncefield and Neville Moray . Not that there have been specific content, but the whole thing was pretty funny. In the afternoon noteworthy intervention Sebastien Duval (a French guy who works in Japan) who presented a study on acceptance by users of wearable computers and the second keynote Japanese increasingly held by a mysterious girl who spoke to + a little English and nothing has reappeared, and in which the robot had shown with great pride the Japanese the day before ... I did a little investigation and all the people I interviewed were not able to explain what center with the rest of the presentation. At the close of the day most of the participants (including us) took part in a guided walk through the streets of Cambridge and a beautiful boat ride where we could admire the sunset from a different angle the beautiful colleges of Cambridge ( here some photos taken by Luke ). Here are several colleges all private lessons are held in the classrooms of the departments that are usually reached by bike from the students. During dinner we learned about Cristina Costa, who works in Trento and in London with a girl (Karen Martin - University College), who told us of an interesting project called Cityware . The third and last half day was quite intense. It should be noted a joint intervention by Lynne Hamill and Richard Harper recounted the past of smart homes in Victorian times trying to figure out on the basis of the relationship between servitude and home owners what kind of technology should populate the homes of the future. The results are interesting because they show that people do not look at all smart objects but simple things that they do their work without being seen and not requiring special communication needs. During the morning, or heard mention Goffmann at least a couple of times. The final keynote on electronic music was not bad ev I found some hints of some theoretical interest. To Finally, before lunch, a closing with a very nice PhotoStory composed of many images taken during the day and assembled its soundtrack. At the end of Marco Combetto MSR was quite moved. The last few days I've seen work really messy and moltissma devote attention to all the boys from inviting more illustrious last present. Overall I got a good deal of interesting stimuli. Buetooth for the use of a range of applications in general sociological use of ethnographic techniques of which they very often use this group of computer scientists. A little bit surprising that all research undertaken in previous cultural studies does not seem to be taken very consderazione. However, an interesting experience and certainly repeat that I recommend to everyone.