Lab meeting list for 2006

Mixed Reality Laboratory - Lab seminars and meetings

Lab Meeting Rota
Friday	6	January	2006	Group reports
	13			Gary	Report back on results from Honda study
	20			Adam
	27			Damian	Statistics in Criminology
	3	February		Group reports
	10			Keir	Overview of past work
	17			Dan, Greg, Johnson	Overview of past work / Design for Hitchers
	24			Boriana	Inscape - overview of progress
	3	March		Joint lunch
	10			Holger	Inhabiting Mixed Reality Architecture
	17			no talk
	24			Joe	The Juggling Video Tracker
	31			Group reports
	7	April		Mauricio
	14			Good Friday
	21			Group reports
	28			Stuart
	5	May		Mika Raento	Location based experiences on mobile phones
	12			Eiman	Environmental sensing projects
	19			Group reports
	26			DothF development team	Overview of current system and game trial
	2	June		Mark P.	Parcitipate project overview
	9			Sue	Give the girls a chance
	16			no talk - AOB
	23			Martin F.	Digital Rights Management
	30			Dave K.	Linguistic analysis as an evaluation tool
	7	July		Martin Tosas	Virtual Touch Screen
	14			Nick
	21			Kevin	Graphical space editor for ECT
	28			Alastair	ECT as a tool for visual authoring of AR applications
	4	August		Group reports
	11			no talk - AOB
	18			no talk - AOB
	25			no talk - AOB
	1	September		Group reports
	8			Leif
	15			Peta Wyeth	Innovative Technologies for Young Children Technology in the modern classroom often assumes the role of word processor or web browser. The current failure of technology to transform teaching and learning within our schools requires us to view computational technology as more than just a resource for information delivery and management. This is especially the case in early childhood education. This seminar describes research projects that address the challenges in early childhood settings to improve learning, creativity and cooperation through the innovative design and implementation of new technologies. It discusses the research challenges faced by designers of educational technology for young children. Specifically, the seminar explores issues in child-technology “fit” and the role that intelligent and tangible computing may play in revolutionising the use of technology in early childhood education. The Electronic Blocks, tangible technology specifically designed for young children, are presented as an example of the design, implementation and evaluation of a child-technology that ‘fits’. The presentation goes on to outline current research which includes the development of technology prototypes that address lessons learned from both the evaluation of the Electronics Blocks and a recent ethnographic study of an early childhood setting.
	22			Steve
	29			AoB
	6	October		Group reports
	13			Marina	Thrill Laboratory at the Dana Centre of the Science Museum
	20			Ryan Baker	Scooter: an Agent Who Adapts to When Students Game the System Students use interactive learning environments in a considerable variety of ways. In this talk, I will present a system that automatically adapts to when students "game the system", attempting to succeed in a learning environment by exploiting properties of the system rather than by learning the material and trying to use that knowledge to answer correctly. Our research group has shown in several studies that gaming results in lower learning, within intelligent tutoring systems. I will discuss a re-designed tutor which incorporates a software agent ("Scooter the Tutor"), who indicates to the student and their teacher whether the student has been gaming recently, through emotional expressions. Scooter also gives students supplemental exercises, in order to offer the student a second chance to learn the material he/she had gamed through. Scooter reduces the frequency of gaming by over half, and Scooter's supplementary exercises are associated with substantially better learning; Scooter appears to have had virtually no effect on students who do not game. I will also discuss our work to develop a detector that can accurately determine which students game, and when, and our work to validate this detector's effectiveness across a variety of tutor lessons, with different user interfaces and domains.
	27			AoB
	3	November		Group reports
	10			Ben	Combining mobile and situated devices
	17			Group reports
	24			Michael W.	Thrill Laboratory - post-event summary
	1	December		AoB
	8			Sara
	15			Steve	The Iperg project
	22			no talk - AoB
	29			University Holiday