So much for being explorative and curious

Yesterday Jared came in and looked like this:

On his way to work he had spotted a nice toolbox in the water and thought "it lies precisely an arm length out in the water so I can just lean out and take it". It turned out that the box was a little more than an arm length away...

The box by the way contained a few rusty fish hooks.

Focon workshop

Three of our reserachers in the new SPIRE centre is doing a research project with a local company, Focon. Yesterday they all had a workshop together with people from the Dacapo Theatre and some of our students where they tried to map Focons network and value chain through different exercises facilitated by the actors. The outcome is going to support the participatory innovation process at Focon, as our researchers broaden out the concept of users and participants to include the whole value chain network.

Jacob Buur on Danish TV

Three weeks ago Jacob Buur was interviewed for Danish television about the new Research center (SPIRE).

Watch the interview here

SIDeR '08

Thursday and Friday last week ITPD hosted the SIDeR '08 conference (Student Interaction Design Research) and we had participants coming from all Scandinavia, Germany, USA, Romania and Holland. The conference went very good thanks to great effort from our students at ITPD who had arranged most of the activities. We thank all participants, writers and helpers for making SIDeR '08 a great succes.

Below there's a few pictures from the conference: