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HCI 2008 Workshop: Evaluating Player Experiences in Location Aware Games

I'm reviewing papers for a workshop at the UK Human Computer Interaction conference, Evaluating Player Experiences in Location Aware Games. More details on the IPcity website here

The conference is in Liverpool, and has the theme of Culture, Creativity, Interaction, (the website is here), chosen to tie in with the Capital of Culture I guess, and interestingly the theme of the Liverpool Biennial is Made Up, which is about "art’s capacity to transport us, to suspend disbelief and generate alternative realities".

That's sort of the aim of technologically supported mixed realities when used as storytelling or entertainment mediums?

Blink in Chinese

Some of Blink's work appears in a new book called Contemporary Art of Science and Technology by Chinese new media artist and academic Zhang Yanxiang.





















The book is funded by the China Association for Science and Technology and the National Philosophy & Social Innovation Base for Sci-Tech History & Sci-Tech Civilization (China), both of which sound pretty hard core to me.








I don't honestly know what that says but it looks good and I'm just pleased that something we've done has got from a small former mill town in the north of England, all the way to China.

Here are the snakes and ladders looking cool as ever, even in black and white:












In glorious technicolour here they are

And if you read Chinese, here are the full details of the book:

Contemporary Art of Science and Technology
ISBN:        978-7-03-020415-8
Press name:  Science Press
Language:      Chinese
660 pages (62 pages in color)

Word to the Wise

This is the green Thumbprint: thumbprintcity.com

It won't be green much longer, so if you can say "I remember Thumbprint when it was still green", then who knows, you might be able to dine out on it in years to come.

Thumbprint London starts on the Day of Monsters, Friday 13th of June, and it won't be green by then, so click quick, while you've still got chance.

Muscle Memory of Cities

A really nice remark by Matt Jones during the Urban and Social Media presentations at Futuresonic :

"we get a kind of muscle memory of cities, like where is the best place to cross the road. Can we surface this for each other" using the streams of data we now generate.