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On Tour 2008

Our group will participate in the 11 Th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2008) to be held in Linz, Austria, European Union (July 09-11, 2008).

Please, contact us for a meeting in Linz!

Linz.

Summer Holidays

Next Jul 21 we will begin our Summer holidays, coming back to work on Mon, Sep 07 2008.

During this period our web site will not be updated.

We apologize for the inconveniences.

Guy at rest.

eMinds Journal

International Journal on Human-Computer Interaction at: www.eminds.hci-rg.com.

eMinds: International Journal on Human Computer Interaction.

On TV

A special report about our Award Winning Context Awareness Augmented Reality Technology code-named Vadinia has been published by the Asturian TV Broadcasting Corporation RTPA.

RTPA News.

RTPA Logo.

Courses RSS 2.0 Updated Catalog for all our courses.

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Usability Cafe

First Thursday of each month we organize an informal public meeting to talk about usability.

Next meeting: Oct. 9, 2008 (19:00 Hours) at San Gregorio coffe shop; Valdes Salas street, Oviedo (see map)

Cup of coffe.

Award

Our Tirsus Research Program on alternative navigation metaphors has received the Degree Project Award 2007 in the Information Technologies category.

Gijon City Council Award.

Madrid March 11, 2004. We will never forget!.

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Winners of the Vodafone Research Award 2008

[Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:27:12 UT]

Award.

Our research group has been honoured by the Vodafone Award to the Best Research Project on Mobile Technologies 2008, thanks to our Oberon project, part of our award winning reseach program (code-named) Vadinia.

The award ceremony will take place next week in the CSIC headquarter in Madrid and it will be given to us by the Spanish Minister of Science and Technology Mrs. Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal.

Vodafone Award.

Graduation in our Group (Monica got it!)

[Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:49:11 UT]

Monica Vazquez-Goyarzu.

Our research mate Mónica Vázquez-Goyarzu got her Master of Science in Engineering last week obtaining the maximum possible evaluation rank.

Her thesis dissertation was about a context-aware video game for hand held devices in the scope of our award winning reseach program -code-named- Vadinia.

Congratulations!

Graduation mortarboard.

Paper published in the Interfaces Journal

[Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:21:15 UT]

Journal Cover.

A scientific research article about our current research on Virtual Synaesthesia, has been included in the printed version of the issue 74 of the Interfaces journal, which is published by The Bristish HCI Group. The online version of this issue will be available soon.

The report shows how augmented reality is able to change our perception of reality and how it can adapt our interaction requirements.

Interfaces Issue 73.

New Videos of Tirsvs Available

[Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:28:35 UT]

Marta using Tirsus online.

New videos showing the key features of our Award Winning Advanced Navigation Metaphors code-named Tirsus are know available at YouTube.

Please visit the Tirsus section to watch these videos and to obtain more information about this technology.

Youtube logo.

Project SIRIO started

[Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:34:15 UT]

Blue print.

Our group has signed and agreement with the University of Oviedo for the development of the code-named project SIRIO.

The main goal of this project is the development of a context-aware interactive guide for handheld devices which will be used to describe the art and historical features of the main building of the University. The guide will make use of ambiental intelligence and augmented reality techniques.

Please visit the Projects section to obtain more information about this and other technologies currently under development by our group.

We will participate in the ICCHP 2008 Conference

[Mon, 26 May 2008 11:12:16 UT]

Linz square.

Our award winning technology GADEA/SEELE will be presented at the ICCHP 2008: 11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, which will be held in Linz (Austria) on July 9-11, 2008.

The proceedings of this conference will be published by Springer and will be available by the end of 2008.

Springer Logo.

Photos and Videos of the Usability Engineering Conference 2008

[Wed, 21 May 2008 13:21:48 UT]

Participants in the Conference.

Our Photo Album has been updated with pictures of our Third International Conference on Usability Engineering 2008, which was held in Oviedo this week.

Some videos of the conference have been already uploaded to the Mediateca of the University of Oviedo.

Slides of the presentations used during the conference will be available in short.