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Title

Winter School: Future User Interfaces (FUI 2015)

Dates

January 26th - 30th, 2015

Responsible

Denis Lalanne

Organizer(s)

Dr. Denis Lalanne, University of Fribourg

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Yvonne Rogers, Open University, UK

Prof. Dr. Thad Starner, Georgia Tech, USA

Prof. Dr. Matt Jones, Swansea University, UK

Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt, Universität Stuttgart, DE

Description

User Interfaces are everywhere. They help interact with tehnologies around us, and they also foster our communications with relatives and colleagues. Since their role is becoming increasingly influential on society, it is important to anticipate and reflect about the future of user interfaces. During this winter school, both technological progress and human factors will be discussed. The winter school aims at reflecting on the technologies of tomorrow and on the important human and societal challenges for human centered technologies, augmented, wearable, plastic, fun, ubiquitous...

Location

Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets

Information
Expenses

Selected PhD students, researchers and professors registered at CUSO universities (i.e. EPFL, Universities of Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern and Neuchâtel) for participation will be notified by email and will be asked to pay a registration fee of CHF 100 (PhD students) or CHF 200 (researchers and professors), respectively.

Registration

The registration for the Winter School has to be done at https://diuf.unifr.ch/diva/fui2015/ before December 1st, 2014.

Places

40

Deadline for registration
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