University of Canterbury, New Zealand
For the CHI2009 conference, we prepared unofficial ribbons and distributed them amongst the attendees. We were inspired by Brad Myers collection of CHI conference badges and ribbons. All of our 400 ribbons were gone at the end of the conference and a photo of the table on which the ribbons were presented was shown during the closing session’s slide show. It was just great fun. Below you see my conference badge and I found a few other pictures [picture1, picture2].
The full text of our paper “Scientometric Analysis Of The CHI Proceedings” is now available. In addition, we published the complete rankings and tables in an online appendix. Find out where your organization is ranked amongst the CHI contributors and how the CHI conference developed over the years. The video recording of the presentation is available at SciVee.
The CHI conference features the CHI Madness session in which all presenters of the day have the opportunity to make their bid for attention. I prepared this teaser movie for the CHI Madness. Enjoy!
We made a documentary about the ALICE installation at the Eindhoven University of Technology. It explains the background of the project and its relation to the original book. If you like it, please give it a positive rating.
The Times Higher Education Ranking 2008 has been published and could not help noticing that Germany and Netherlands have both 11 universities in the top 200. That is 57% of the Dutch Universities and only 2% of the German Universities. Sometimes quality beats quantity. The Germany magazine “Der Spiegel” summarizes Germany’s disappointment over this result, since the government had recently pored 1.900.000.000 Euro into the “Elite” universities.