CHI 2012 - It's the Experience!May 5-10, 2012 - Austin, Texashttp://chi2012.acm.org/The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on human-computer interaction. The experience of CHI 2012 is centered in vibrant Austin, Texas, the Live Music Capital of the World.STUDENT GAME COMPETITIONDeadline: 9 January 2012http://chi2012.acm.org/cfp-studentgame.shtmlThe student game competition is new within CHI. The competition is aimed at meeting the... Read full post

The meeting of the Young Minds is starting today. I take part as representative for the Evaluation Work Package. 

I tried to write a Stellar document that summarizes different views on 'orchestration'. As you guess, this is hardly possible. To accommodate all viewpoints, I should write such an ecumenical paper that it would be boring to read. We decided to proceed differently. I wrote a position paper, that reflects my viewpoint (shared by a few :-), and invited colleagues to write a 'response to'.  The compilation of the paper and the responses will provide a nice overview. It will be discussed in... Read full post

Follow our tweets #arvmupemureThe Alpine Rendez-Vous 2011 tweets can be found here:#arv11

AUM 2011: International Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation. In conjunction with UMAP 2011 (Girona, Spain 11 - 15 July 2011) http://wis.ewi.tudelft.nl/aum2011/ IMPORTANT DATES

15 April 2011:  Submission deadline (23:59 pm Hawaiian time)
13 May 2011:    Notification of acceptance
17 June 2011:   Camera-ready paper
6 May 2011:    Demo & position paper submission... Read full post

We are happy to announce the third update of the Web History Repository. The new version contains the anonymized usage logs of 356 contributors, with a total of 2.392.116 page visits. Thanks again to all who contributed.
http://webhistoryproject.blogspot.com/

The creation of a Thesaurus and a dictionnary of TEL key terms and expressions has been initiated recently. This initiative intends to construct a common intellectual platform to support the conceptual and theoretical integration of TEL research. The idea is not to fix the meanings or to have just one way of seeing our field,  but to identify commonalities when possible and differences when needed. This is based on the analysis of the keywords in use... Read full post

During his visit to Germany, Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google) announced that Google will launch a research center in Berlin that will focus on the impact of the Internet on our society (e.g. Street View, privacy issues). Further details (amount of funding, partners involved, timeline) are not clear yet.
More details (in German, der Spiegel): http://bit.ly/dS44wL

Hi All,
Our company (ATOS Origin) is involved in the ALERT project, which, although not directly related to TEL, can proove to be invaluable for open source communities (communities of learners, informal learning, etc). ALERT will improve the efficiency and management of bug resolution in software development in Open Source communities by providing methods and tools based on context-aware notification, event-driven processing  and real-time interactions.
ALERT is now conducting a survey... Read full post

For more details, enter: http://www.teleurope.eu/pg/forum/topic/58140/dade-nurjanah-selected-as-winner-of-the-stellar-mobility-excellence-award-for-2010/
Best regards,
Noaa