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First Thursday of each month we organize an informal public meeting to talk about usability.
Next meeting: Jul. 2, 2009 (19:00 Hours) at San Gregorio coffe shop; Valdes Salas street, Oviedo (see map)

The document Usability Cafe Agenda contains more information about the scheduled presentations.
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Please visit our Press Room to watch news published by the mass media about our group.
Next Jul 20 we will begin our Summer holidays, coming back to research work on Mon, Sep 14 2009.
During this period our web site will not be updated.
We apologize for the inconveniences.

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Next Issue: Vol II, Issue 6, 2010.

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In the last months our organization has received the following Awards for its teamwork and research excellence...
[Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:21:29 UT]

Our participation as partners of the SIAM Project has been finished after successful project completion.
The main goal of this project was the development of interactive hardware and software devices to give support to ambient intellegence technologies at home, based on state of the art video game consoles, such as Nintendo's Wii and Sony Playstation 3.
Please visit the Projects section to obtain more information about this and other technologies.
[Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:57:23 UT]
We are happy to announce that the restructuration of our group, triggered by the Shinobu Affaire, has been completed successfully.
The complot was discovered in March and was leaded by a group of members of the group who decided to put their interests above the good of the community, trying to take control of some of our technologies developed using funds coming from University of Oviedo, in order to make profit out of them.
The incorporation of new members and the use of agile software development methods allowed us to reduce the delay on project development caused by the affaire, from the initial six months delay to the current two weeks time. And what it is the most important, the Humandev and Shinobu projects are now on the scheduled time.

[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:33:14 UT]
The slides used by the lectures of the Usability Engineering Conference 2009 are available for download from the conferences section of our site.
Our invited guests for this conference were MSE Hiroshi Tamura (Hakuhodo, Tokyo, Japan) and Dr.Yoshiro Kawahara (The University of Tokyo, Japan). The conferences were held in Oviedo and Gijón last May.
This is the last one of a series of conferences organized since 2001 by our group and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oviedo.
[Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:44:22 UT]

Our Photo Album has been updated with images of our participation in a series of technology transference events and meetings that took place Japan in January 2009.
Our group presented our latest work on Web 4.0 technologies to japanese companies and universities, allowing the exchange of knowledge with them. As a result, we reached several cooperation agreements with japanese institutions.

[Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:04:52 UT]
Our web site has a new section dedicated to store a compilation of news related to our group and our technologies. These news have been published by the mass media in the last years.
Although this Press Room is divided in two main sections (Blogosphere and Newspapers), in a near future it will also include references to news recently published on Radio and Television.
