MEIS’08 is the successor of the MEIS’06 workshop at Informatik 2006. The workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are concerned with envisioning, creating and implementing mobile and embedded interactive systems. Interaction with mobile devices and embedded systems has become a part of everyday life. As mobile devices get more complex and emb...

Red Light Spotters is a multi-contextual interactive project which aims to create an open and real-time musical environment sharing relations with and extending a natural ambient environment, namely an urban landscape. The basic idea is to convert in real-time the input from a camera sensor recording a urban landscape (Tokyo city, at night) into an electronic musical soundscape. This is achieve...

This first ever functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis of charitable bequest decision-making found increased activation in the precuneus and lingual gyrus of the brain compared to charitable giving and volunteering decisions. Greater lingual gyrus activation was also associated with increased propensity to make a charitable bequest. Previous studies have shown that activation of ...

BACKGROUND Students often strategically adopt surface approaches to learning anatomy in order to pass this necessarily content-heavy subject. The consequence of this approach, without understanding and contextualisation, limits transfer of anatomical knowledge to clinical applications. Encouraging deep approaches to learning is challenging in the current environment of lectures and laboratory-b...

Dementia The Dementia Services Centre will host a one day interactive dementia awareness workshop on September 10 at 48 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham. The day is suitable for anyone who comes into contact with people with dementia. Workshop themes include the effect of dementia on families and friends; confident and clear communication; and support for people with dementia. tinyurl.com/DSCawa...

The goal of this workshop is to acquire conceptual and practical skills in developing thin, flexible and customizable physical user interfaces with printed electronics for interactive devices and objects. The workshop will cover personalized digital design of printed electronics, basics of different sensor types and actuators, and prototyping of printed electronics with conductive inkjet printi...

The ECIR half-day workshop on Task-Based and Aggregated Search (TBAS) was held in Barcelona, Spain on 1 April 2012. The program included a keynote talk by Professor Järvelin, six full paper presentations, two poster presentations, and an interactive discussion among the approximately 25 participants. This report overviews the aims and contents of the workshop and outlines the major outcomes.