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I’d like to invite LeonardoNet participants to the following event in Liverpool. Please contact Marta to book a place via ruperez@fact.co.uk.

You can get a preview at http://www.hci-fun.org.uk/demo.html which is still under construction so any bug and usability reports would be welcomed.

Regards

Dave England.

HCI @ FACT

*Josh Nimoy*: Icon==Function

4 October 2005, 18:00 – 20:30, The Box
FREE (pre-booking required)

The HCI (Human Computer Interaction) project is a collaboration between FACT and the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Liverpool John Moore¹s University that seeks to explore issues of computer usability. Artists Josh Nimoy (US), Simon Poulter (UK) and Caen Botto
(Argentina) have been commissioned to propose experiments, based on scientific principles of human-computer interaction, that analyze how a variety of different users, from different backgrounds and levels of technological training, interact with Œthe machine¹.

Josh Nimoy will be presenting Icon==Function, a series of interactive game-like audio-visual environments that analyzes the relationship between the functionality of user interfaces, and their iconographic facades. The body of work attempts to eliminate the divide between the outer and inner parts of ³the machine.²

Caen Botto and Simon Poulter will also be present to inform us about their projects up to date.

www.hci-fun.org.uk

Made possible by a Partnerships for Public Awareness grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

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Marta Ruperez
Curator

FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street
Liverpool, L1 4DQ

http://www.fact.co.uk

The date has been set for the next workshop in the LeonardoNet series. This one is hosted by Jenn Sheridan and .:ThePooch:., along with Alan Dix, of Lancaster University’s Computing Department. It takes place over two days: 23rd and 24th November. Please put this in your diaries now.

There will be at least two components:
1) a scrapheap challenge – something Lancaster has conducted a fair few times now to good effect and which involves designing and building (or at least prototyping) something from scratch in a day or so. For Alan’s account of one, see Research on the Scrapheap.
2) a report from each artwork group with a flavour of their process and progress so far. Members of each group will be contacted with further details about this soon.

Again, there is no charge for this event, but there will be the cost of accommodation. I shall ask our hosts for recommendations for dependable and affordable places to stay near the campus and circulate these to anyone expressing an interest.

Further details of how to sign up, etc will be posted soon. Meanwhile, do contact me with any other queries. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Ann