Workshop Programme
Over the two days, we want to address three key questions in sensory augmentation resesarch using a combination of: conventional short presentations by invited keynote speakers; discussion sessions; and by participants having a hands-on experience of using and evaluating sensory augmentation technologies.
There will be demonstrations of a range of sensory augmentation devices and participants will have opportunities to use and evaluate these systems under the guidance of the designers. Confirmed demonstrations include: the Enactive Torch; feelSpace; the Haptic Radar; an i-LIMB with proprioceptive feedback; a minimal TVSS; the GSR Mouse; a protoype system for helping novice violin players; and the vOICe system. As part of these demonstration sessions there will also be some demos of open source software (Processing, OpenFrameworks) and hardware (including Arduino microcontrollers, Lillypad components) that can be used to build wearable vibro-tactile arrays and connected to a range of sensors. These will be run by researchers who actively use these technologies and will demonstrate that sensory augmentation systems can be rapidly prototyped and tested.
There will be two tutorial sessions on ‘second person’ interview techniques by Thi Bich Doan, who was trained by Claire Petitmengin. She will show people how to use this technique by focusing on participants' experiences of using the sensory augmentation devices in the demo sessions.
| Thursday 26 March, 2009 | ||
| 9.00 - 9.30 | Registering and setting up demonstrations |
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| 9.30 - 9.45 | Opening Address Jon Bird, Tom Froese, Paul Marshall |
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| 9.45 - 10.45 | Demo Session 1 This is the first of three demo sessions and the aim is for people to explore 2 or 3 of the sensory augmentation systems in each session. |
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| 10.45 - 11.15 | Coffee | |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Talk and Discussion Session 1 Each talk is 20 minutes with 10 minutes questions. The speakers are: |
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| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Demo Session 2 | |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Coffee | |
| 15.30 - 17.30 | Tutorial Session 1 Thi Bich Doan will initially give a 20 minute overview of the second person interview technique. She will then take people through a series of exercises, focusing on participants' experiences of trying out the sensory augmentation devices in demo sessions 1 and 2. |
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| 20.00 | Workshop dinner at the Agra Brasserie, 60 Ship Street, Brighton (map) | |
| Friday 27 March, 2009 | ||
| 9.30 - 9.45 | Opening Address | |
| 9.45 - 10.45 | Demo Session 3 | |
| 10.45 - 11.15 | Coffee | |
| 11.15 - 12.45 | Tutorial Session 2 Thi Bich Doan will continue her tutorial on the second person interview technique. |
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| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Talk and Discussion Session 2 Each talk is 20 minutes with 10 minutes questions. The speakers are: |
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| 15.30 - 15.45 | Coffee | |
| 15.45 - 16.30 | Closing session Summarising key issues Discussion of a possible journal special issue |
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