Creating a creative atmosphere for meetings is difficult. We already spend too much time in endless discussions. We build an affordable creativity table that helps a team to maintain their creative energy during a meeting. We integrated four boxes into a table and filled them with Lego. Bram, Alex and Gerrit made it possible!
The ICT&S Center at the Salzburg University kindly invited me to present my thoughts on Design and Science. Professor Manfred Tscheligi and Dr Astrid Weiss organized this inspiring evening in the picturesque old city center of Salzburg. Please enjoy this video recording of the presentation. You can link to the video through its DOI: 10.4016/17749.01. [...]
Our paper entitled “Expressive robots in education – Varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor” received an honorable mentioning from SIGCHI at the CHI2010 conference. This means that our paper has been within the top 5 percent of all full papers. Here is the abstract: Teaching is inherently a social interaction [...]
We are the Metaverse1 project meeting in Nancy to discuss the progress and future plans of this European Project. Today Alex gave a successful presentation of his prototype although we were fighting with INRIA’s firewall. Some photos are available at our project’s website.
Today we had the privilege to see Hiroshi Ishiguro’s “Robot Drama” in the Yamamoto Nohgakudo in Osaka. This event was part of the HRI2010 conference. The play itself was amazing and the following discussion in the theater between Ishiguro, the actors and the audience was funny and insightful.