UIST 2007: 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Newport, Rhode Island U.S.A.
October 7-10, 2007
http://www.uist.org/
Early registration is now open for UIST. For lowest rates for conference registration and hotel reservations, visit:
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2007/registration/
Early registration ends on September 7.
UIST is the premier forum for innovations in the software and […]

Call for Papers:
MMI-Interaktiv, Issue 12, March 2007
ISSN: 1439-7854
MMI In Virtual Environments: Recent Developments and Industrial Applications
This special issue of the open access online journal MMI-Interaktiv invites relevant papers on recent developments and industrial applications in virtual, mixed, and augmented reality (VR, MR, AR) from the perspective of Human-Machine Interaction and Human Factors. Topics could include, […]

The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a broader sense: […]

Several nice Flash applets with photos, motion graphics, animations.
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(via Levitated.net)

Many traditionally trained, professional designers wonder what the next generation of computing technologies might bring to their field. At the same time, many digitally trained, professional designers feel that they have missed out on some of the cornerstones of a traditional design education. To work towards a common ground between the digital and traditional design […]

City University of Hong Kong is looking for the following position in the school.
Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in New Media and Interactivity, School of Creative Media

City University of Hong Kong is one of eight higher education institutions directly funded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region through the University Grants Committee (Hong Kong). […]

Pixelsumo is a blog about digital art, live performance, open source technologies, installations and hacking game culture.
Written and maintained by Chris O’Shea, a UK based digital artist.
Pixelsumo

What is NETWORKED PERFORMANCE ?
locative media, augmented reality, distributed performance, environmental theatre, pervasive play, immersive gaming, telepresence?…???
Recent technological and telecommunication developments–the internet’s two-way communication model, relatively inexpensive access to computers and networks–have given rise to a powerful and diverse range of creative production, particularly among those not self-defined as artists, resulting in a bleedover between […]

Information visualization algorithms and techniques dedicated to tree maps and hierarchical data.
Link: Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

Please consider coming to the DIVERSE BOF at SIGGRAPH:
UPDATE:
Thursday, August 4, 10:00am - 11:00am
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 511C
DIVERSE is a free, open-source device-independent Virtual Environment (VE) and networked simulation API. It has a highly flexible design which emphasizes reuse and reconfiguration of tools over recoding.
Device Independent Virtual Environment - Reconfigurable, Scalable, Extensible. DIVERSE […]

IFIP 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing
September 19 - 21, 2005
Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe Sanda Campus, Sanda, Japan
Call for Posters and Demos
We invite poster and demo presentations. The deadline of extended abstracts is July 1st, 2005.
We invite you to participate in the prestigious 4th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2005). Entertainment is taking […]

a short book and essay about several experiments from my research in genomic cartography
interim book | ben fry

A slumber light is a luminescent cube containing a photograph of a distant friend or family member that glows when that person is asleep. I designed them for a specific long distance relationship between my son, age 3 and my grandmother, age 95.
Scenario:
Sam, climbs into bed for his nighttime stories. Below his mattress is a […]