Digital Lifestyles Centre: January 2008

Wednesday 9 January 2008

DLC gets JISC funding for Habitat MUVE project

See the project website here.

Mirtle featured in the news (on Sun) again!

See here:

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/1007eduinsight.html?cid=921781

http://wikis.sun.com/display/IESIG/Home

http://www.sun.com/emrkt/educonnection/newsletter/1007eduinsight.html?cid=921781

Public version of MiRTLE site goes live

To try out the site go here. The only prerequisite is that you machine must have Java 1.6 installed.

DLC Mirtle project to be featured at worldwide education conference

See here for more details.

DLC Mirtle project featured on new Sun 'immersion' site

See here for more details

Michael Gardner presents at London Technology Network

See here for the full programme. Michael presented on the challenges to improving user adoption.

Article in the Times on intelligent plugs

The Times newspaper today (Wednesday 2 January) has a
story about John Woods' and Steve Fitz' intelligent plugs
(see page 8 in the printed newspaper).

The story is also accessible online in the environment section:

Chapter on Pervasive Information Systems in new book

A paper by Vic Callaghan, Jeannette Chin, Victor Zamudio, Graham Clarke, Anuroop Shahi, and Michael Gardner on "Domestic Pervasive Information Systems: End-user Programming of Digital Homes, " has been published in Dec 07 in Part II. of the book "Applications of Pervasive Information Systems".

For full publication details look here.

DLC start new Virtual Teaching project with Sun

Wyvern article can be found here.

i10 Innovation East article

Work carried out by the Digital Lifestyles Centre to evaluate user perceptions of broadband voice services in the iSpace, is featured in the Summer 2007 issue of the i10 magazine 'Innovation East'. The full issue is available here

DLC talk to Sun microsystems about new project

The Digital Lifestyles centre is in negotiation with Sun Microsystems about a new collaborative research project to build and demonstrate a mixed reality lecture room for the World Exposition in China 2010. Click for more information.

DLC attend European Living Labs network event

The Digital Lifestyles centre was presented at the European Network of Living Labs event in Portugal on 21-23 May 2007. We are hoping to be included as part of the 2nd wave membership of this network.

Affective e-Learning featured on EuroNews

For quicktime version of the news item click here

Tuesday 8 January 2008

Intelligent 'dormitory' to become world-class test bed

University of Essex press release 22/06/05