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Lunchtime Talk: Emotional Engagement in Pervasive Drama by Rik Lander

Fri 3 Dec 2010 13:00-14:30

Please note that this event consists of two parts – Pervasive Drama The Memory Dealer and a talk by creator Rik Lander The viewing of audio-visual entertainment normally takes place in ‘safe’ environments such as the home or the cinema where the environment is conducive to full immersion in a…

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Lunchtime Talk: Craig Wightman from Kinneir Dufort

Fri 26 Nov 2010 13:00-14:00

Kinneir Dufort are a design and innovation company based in Bristol. Their work is predominantly product design based, and spans consumer, industrial and medical sectors. Alongside client-facing work, Kinneir Dufort regularly undertake self-initiated projects to explore ideas and develop thinking…

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Lunchtime Talk: Find out about our Graduate/New Talent scheme

Fri 19 Nov 2010 13:00-14:00

This session is aimed at anybody interested in our Graduate/New Talent scheme, which supports recent graduates and people starting out in the world of pervasive media. This session will provide you with everything you need for your application. You will be shown around the Studio, find out about aim…

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Lunchtime Talk: Pervasive Gaming Ethnography by Dan Dixon

Fri 5 Nov 2010 13:00-14:00

What is exactly is pervasive gaming? Why do people create and play these games? What makes them fun? What do hipsters and big games have in common? This talk is an early stage presentation of the results of ethnographic research carried out at gaming festivals in New York, London and Bristol. For…

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Lunchtime Talk: Artist Presentation: AntiVJ

Fri 29 Oct 2010 14:00-15:00

AntiVJ are an international visual label who share a common interest in using light projections on architectural structures, 3D mapping and live painting with projections as powerful action for confounding human perception. By using unconventional canvas and mixing techniques such as mapping,…

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Lunchtime Talk: City Machines (Tim Kindberg)

Fri 22 Oct 2010 14:00-15:00

Urban computing is the integration of pervasive applications and services into the public spaces of our cities and towns. Research into this relatively young field has concentrated on applications and installations based around individual events running over a short period of time. But what if a…

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Lunchtime Talk: Indoor Positioning (Tom Melamed / Dan Williams)

Fri 15 Oct 2010 14:00-15:00

Most of us are used to GPS and take being able to locate yourself outdoors for granted. But what about indoor positioning? Why is it so much harder and what options are out there? In this talk we will go through several different options for indoor positioning and talk about the pros and cons of…