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Den 1. september tiltrådte Charles Ess et treårigt professorat med særlige opgaver på Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab ved Aarhus Universitet.

I den forbindelse holder Charles Ess en tiltrædelsesforelæsning med titlen 'Global convergences, political futures? Self, community, and ethics in digital mediatized worlds'. Her vil han diskutere, hvordan fremkomsten af nye medier og computermedieret kommunikation hænger sammen med de fundamentale forandringer, som både ‘vestlige’ og ‘østlige’ samfund har undergået, herunder hvordan de nye teknologier har påvirket vores opfattelse af selvet, det sociale og det politiske.

Siden 2003 har Charles Ess været 'Distinguished Professor' ved Drury University i USA, og han er en førende og internationalt anerkendt forsker inden for en række felter. Han har bidraget markant inden for internetforskningen, især angående kulturelle aspekter af informations- og kommunikationsteknologi samt computermedieret kommunikation, og derudover inden for IKT og demokratisering, IKT og religion, internetforskningsetik, samt computeretik med særligt henblik på kulturelle perspektiver.

Derudover har Charles Ess været en hovedkraft bag skabelsen af konferencerækken CATaC, (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, 1998 og frem), og fra 2007 har han været formand for den internationale internetforskersammenslutning Association of Internet Researchers.

For yderligere oplysninger om Charles Ess kan henvises til hans netsted på http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html. Charles Ess kan desuden kontaktes på charles.ess@gmail.com.

Tiltrædelsesforelæsningen vil senere blive gjort tilgængelig som video podcast.

Two of the old mantra’s of screenwriting are ”less is more” and ”show, don’t tell”.  These two equal what is basically the concept of subtext – the notion that there’s a whole lot MORE going on with characters than the words they are saying. A simple greeting like ”hello” can be full of different meanings, depending on how it is delivered (excited, scared, angry, etc).  Using example from such films as Deer Hunter, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Our Summer of Love, I’ll demonstrate how this principal can work so effectively.

Hvordan ser spil- og legeforskningen ud på IMV? Digital Aesthetics Research Center har inviteret forskere fra IMV (og en enkelt gæst fra Melbourne) inden for computerspilforskningen til en gang teoretisk ludo. Forskerne vil fremlægge tanker og idéer spændende bredt fra kroppens rolle i computerspil til scenen for computerspil (online eller i et byrum).

Enabling geo-spatial context on the mobile internet

The Internet is going mobile, and indications are that the mobile Internet will be "bigger" than the conventional Internet. Due to aspects such as user mobility, much more varied use situations, and the form factor of mobile devices, context awareness is important on the mobile Internet. During the past decade, the speaker has been engaged in research aimed at enabling geo-spatial context awareness on the mobile Internet, such as outdoor and indoor tracking, user-generated indoor positioning, destination and route prediction, location and query privacy, and continuous query and update processing. This talk aims to offer an overview of some this research.

About the speaker:

Christian S. Jensen is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research concerns data management and spans semantics, modeling, and indexing and query processing. During the past decade, his focus has been on spatio-temporal data management. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the EDBT Endowment, and ERCIM's Board of Directors. He is vice chair of ACM SIGMOD and a trustee emeritus of the VLDB Endowment. He received Ib Henriksen's Research Award 2001 for his research in mainly temporal data management and Telenor's Nordic Research Award 2002 for his research in mobile services.

He is an editor-in-chief of The VLDB Journal and has served on the editorial boards of ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, and the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. He was PC chair or co-chair for SSTD 2001, EDBT 2002, VLDB 2005, MobiDE 2006, MDM 2007, DMSN 2008, and TIME 2008.

From September 2008 to August 2009, he was on sabbatical at Google Inc., Mountain View.

Much of our current understanding of collaboration around objects in collaborative virtual environments comes from studies conducted with experimental immersive systems. Now Internet-based desktop virtual worlds (VWs) have become a popular form of 3d environment, and have been proposed for a variety of workplace scenarios. One popular VW, Second Life (SL), allows its users to create and manipulate objects. This provides an opportunity to examine the problems and practices of object-focused collaboration in a current system and compare them to prior results. We studied small groups as they assembled objects in SL under varying conditions. In this paper we discuss the problems they encountered and the techniques they used to overcome them.

We present measures of camera movement and verbal reference to objects, and discuss the impact of the UI upon these behaviors. We argue that while well-documented old problems remain very much alive, their manifestation in SL suggests new possibilities for supporting collaboration in 3d spaces. In particular, directly representing users’ focus of attention may be more efficient than indirectly representing it via avatar gaze or gestures.

Reklamen er i sit grundlag en informativ genre. Den vil gøre opmærksom på og informere om forskelle på markedet for produkter og tjenesteydelser. Men den er samtidig en uopfordret hen­vendelse og dermed på markedet for opmærksomhed. Derfor må den også informere måderne, hvorpå information under disse vilkår er mulig.

Informationsdimensionen kan således ikke stå alene og er ikke dækkende for feltet. Reklamen har i et eller andet omfang altid været forbundet med markedsgøgl og det spektakulære. Ikke mindst tv-reklamen har lært at spille komedie, opbygge situationer og fortælle historier og i det hele taget lært at spille ind på publikums synssæt på måder, så også selve synssættet informeres. Tv-reklamen har herunder bl.a. udviklet sine egne mini-formater og fortælleuniverser - ligesom den har sine egne hit-lister og publikumsfavoritter.

I oplægget adresseres spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt der kan opstilles en række kriterier for, hvordan tv-reklamens underholdende (humoristiske, komiske mv.) dimensioner kan blandes med de informa­tive, således at et informativt mål eller delmål med stor sandsynlighed nås? Eller omvendt: Er det muligt at angive indikatorer i en sådan blanding, der tilsiger, hvornår underholdningsdimension modvirker informationsdimension?