We are editing a joint Special Issue of Frontiers in Computer Science and Frontiers in Psychology on this topic. The focus of this collection of papers will be on ways…
Presentation at Presence 2020
John Waterworth and Ingvar Tjostheim presented the paper: "Integrating the world of presence theory: Illusion, pretence, attending, and pretending" at the 18th Conference of the International Society for Presence Research…
Primitive Interaction Design
Just out, this new book by Kei Hoshi and John Waterworth, in the Springer HCI Series!
Ambient interaction design in a primitive society
Our presentation at DAPI 2020 on July 24, 2020
Session at DAPI 2020
We chaired an interesting session at the DAPI conference, which was held online, as well as co-authoring 3 of the 6 papers presented! Click on Publications for more details.
Paper on virtual tourism at (virtual) HCII 2020
Yesterday, Ingvar Tjostheim did a great job presenting our paper "Virtual Tourism in a Game Environment: Untangling Judged Affordances and Sense of Place" at the virtual version of HCII 2020…
Better Future for Healthy Ageing
This week we attended (remotely) the BFHA2020 conference in Zagreb, presenting a paper entitled: Not “the computer” but “the place”: designing and evaluating future ambient spaces for improved quality of…
New book chapter published by Academic Press!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128169582000046
Visiting PhD students finish their work with us
Photo (taken by Åke Holmlund) shows Ines with John Waterworth in the departmental corridors. Somaye Rahini and Ines Ayed have been with us for the last few months, on short-term…
New paper on meditative/restorative environments
http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?language=en&pid=diva2%3A1362402&dswid=-3696 Access to leisure and wellbeing can be difficult to arrive at due to constraints in health, income, location and time. With shifting demographics ( inversion of the aging pyramid)…