News and Announcements

(You will find here information about new developments and updates of activities.
 Check also the "Events"-section for further information.)

January 2009:  Norbert Streitz can be reached via the Smart Future Initiative website
                            which is now on-line. His previous website at Fraunhofer IPSI will still exist
                            for some time. His e-mail will be forwarded to his new address here.

February 2009: check and sign up for the HCII-2009 Tutorial of Norbert Streitz on
                            "Ambient Intelligence: Designing Interaction for Smart Artefacts"
                             at the 13. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
                            HCI International 2009, San Diego, USA (19.-24. July 2009)

 March 2009:    InterLink Dissemination Event on 22. April 2009
                           at the FET'09 Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

 April 2009:       Final Review of InterLink project is scheduled for 27. May 2009
                           as part of the ERCIM Spring Days and ERCIM 20th Anniversary
                           (26. - 29. May 2009) in Paris, France.

May 2009:        check and submit a contribution to the new "Landscapes"-category
                           at AmI-09, the Third European Conference on Ambient Intelligence,
                           (18. - 21. November 2009), Salzburg, Austria 

June 2009       Invitation as Invited Speaker at  COSIT'09 Workshop on "Spatial and
                           Temporal Reasoning for Ambient Intelligence Systems", Aber Wrac'h,
                           Bretagne, France (21. September 2009)

June 2009       "Ambient Intelligence" chapter by Norbert Streitz & Gilles Privat
                            published in the final section "Looking to the Future" of
                            "The Universal Access Handbook" edited by Constantine Stephanidis.
                            CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group, 2009. ISBN: 978-0-8058-6280-5
                            (pages 60.1 - 60.17)

July 2009         Invitation as Keynote Speaker at ACE 2009: International Conference
                           on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Athens, Greece
                           (29.-31. October 2009).

August 2009    selection and notification of authors for two "Landscapes"-sessions
                           at AmI-09, the Third European Conference on Ambient Intelligence,
                           (18. - 21. November 2009), Salzburg, Austria

December 2009  Call for Papers for the ISAmI 2010 - International Symposium on
                                Ambient Intelligence (16.- 18. June 2010), Guimaraes, Portugal.
                                paper submission deadline: 8. February 2010.