It seems the current theme is a little to dark (depressing was the term used) so I think I’ll find a new theme with a nicer tone while Ali has the token for the Workshop document.

A great day of discussions at the Research in the Large workshop at Ubicomp.

Very cool to meet other people working on mass participation systems. Check out the workshop papers.

A new version of Yoshi has been released with a couple of new features.

Update please!

Congratulations all round, our paper Mass Participation in Evaluation and Design has been accepted to the Digital Futures 2010 conference in Nottingham.

Abstract after the break
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Alistair and I will be heading off to the Research in the Large workshop at Ubicomp in Copenhagen in September.

It sounds like it could be a very interesting day discussing the challenges of doing mobile research over the internet.

CfP after the break, hope to see you there!
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A couple of our members have just been informed of not 1, but 2 papers being accepted to NordiCHI 2010

Well Done! Scott and Stuart.

Abstracts after the break:
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Our latest app, World Cup Predictor, is out now!

It’s looking at social use of mass distributed applications, testing the uptake of ad-hoc peer-to-peer features in the game

We’ve got over 1000 registered users in the first 24 hours.

There is a link on the right to SumCentral.com now.
This will be the consumer, as opposed to research, facing web presence. It will have details of all our released applications, etc.

Don’t worry, this is still where the interesting posts will be.

A couple of new applications for you all. ZooEscape and Packer.

They are two versions of a simple memory game, you have to remember where the item in the middle should go as the target boxes or cages change or move.

Screenshots after the break
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The paper we submitted to Pervasive 2010 has been accepted!

We look forward to seeing you all in Helsinki, abstract after the break.
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