The informative art project is directed by three researchers in the
Future Applications Lab, at
the Viktoria Institute.
|
Tobias Skog, Ph.D. Student
[personal web page]
Tobias is a Ph. D. student of Informatics at Göteborg University. He used to work as a research assistant in the
Future Applications Lab, at the Viktoria Institute. He has an educational background in computational
linguistics and has previously been working in the PLAY group at the Interactive Institute. His research
interest is in finding ways of integrating information interfaces into our everyday environments.
|
|
|
Sara Ljungblad, Ph.D. Student
[personal web page]
Sara has a bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Skövde and a M.Sc. in Informatics
from Göteborg University. She is currently a P.hd. student at the University of Göteborg. Her research
interests involve how to display and make use of computational information into everyday surroundings.
Another related project is
Pin&Play, where Sara is working on how to use
pushpins as computational support for large-scale scheduling. Sara is also working in other research projects
such as Picture This!, investigating how
everyday surroundings can be used as playful parameters, when taking pictures with digital cameras.
|
|
|
Dr Lars Erik Holmquist
[personal web page]
Dr Holmquist founded the Future Applications Lab as well as the
PLAY research group. He has worked in
areas such as focus+context visualization (Flip Zooming); mobile CSCW (The Hummingbird); mobile interaction
(WEST, PowerView); tangible user interfaces (Web Stickers); and novel information displays
(Informative Art, Textile Diplays). His Ph.D. dissertation
Breaking the Screen Barrier was presented in 2000.
He is active in the Ubiquitous Computing community and chaired UbiComp 2002.
|
|
|