From m.foth at qut.edu.au Fri Apr 15 18:01:22 2016 From: m.foth at qut.edu.au (Marcus Foth) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 01:01:22 +0000 Subject: [Ci4cg-announce] Vienna Summer School: Smart Cities - Call for applications References: <5710A9D1.2070303@tuwien.ac.at> Message-ID: <3B0350F7-94B1-41DE-B566-D036FECF3CBF@qut.edu.au> SMART CITIES: DESIGNING PLACES AND URBAN MENTALITIES Vienna Summer School 2016 - Call for Applications (due 31 May 2016) date: 21.08 - 29.08.2016 at TU Wien location: TU Wien, Vienna language: English duration: 8 days credits: 6 ects applications due: 31 May 2016 website: http://summerschool2016-smartcity.tuwien.ac.at/ An 8-day Summer School "DESIGNING PLACES AND URBAN Mentalities SMART CITIES" will be held at TU Wien in Vienna from 21.08 - 29.08.2016. The concept of Smart City is promising: The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities highlights the opportunities to link and upgrade infrastructures, technologies and services in key urban sectors (transport, buildings, energy, ICT) in a smart way [that] will improve quality of life, economic competitiveness and sustainability of cities. Such conceptions present Smart City-solutions as mainly technology driven utopian visions of societal transformation while blurring the multitude of social decisions made in technology development which fundamentally shape the kinds of social transformations possible in urban life. The Summer School brings together scholars from diverse disciplines including technical, economic, political, environmental and social disciplines to explore new sets of relationships between (a) society and technology and (b) people and data entailed in the Smart City vision and to contribute to a better understanding of processes transforming urban spaces. Call for Application: The Summer School invites excellent and interested advanced Master and PhD-students working in the field of Smart City. We seek participation from diverse disciplines including Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Sociology, Innovation Studies, informatics and other ICT/urban Informatics related areas. Please submit until 31 May to summerschool2016 [@] tuwien.ac.at: a) Letter of motivation with a brief description of the research topic, max. 3 pages; b) Comprehensive CV; c) Letter of recommendation from supervisor. The Summer School is is funded by the WWTF of Vienna and organized inter-faculty between Informatics and Spatial Planning (Department of Spatial Planning, Interdisciplinary centre of Urban Studies and section Sociology and the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research group from the Faculty of Informatics). For more information see: http://summerschool2016-smartcity.tuwien.ac.at/ For questions, please email: oliver.frey at tuwien.ac.at -- Professor Marcus Foth i/Director, QUT Design Lab School of Design, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia m.foth at qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – www.vrolik.de CRICOS No. 00213J ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) Brisbane, June 4-8 – @DIS2016 – www.dis2016.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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During the morning session, you will learn to set-up a basic AR project, to work with AR markers and to augment them with virtual content. In the afternoon, you are encouraged to team up and design for the interaction possibilities of AR in a scenario of your choosing. Join us in Brisbane and register to the workshop: https://mergingrealities.wordpress.com/ [https://mergingrealities.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/workinggroup.jpg] DIS 2016: Merging Realities Workshop mergingrealities.wordpress.com Exploring Meaningful Placement of AR Content Find out more about the DIS conference : http://www.dis2016.org/ ________________________________ The information contained in this message may be confidential and legally protected under applicable law. The message is intended solely for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, forwarding, dissemination, or reproduction of this message is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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We strongly believe that first hand experience is the only way to understand the opportunities and limitations of AR. In this one-day hands-on workshop on June 5th 2016 at DIS2016 Conference, we help you to explore the possibilities of smartphone-based augmented augmented reality. During the morning session, you will learn to set-up a basic AR project, to work with AR markers and to augment them with virtual content. In the afternoon, you are encouraged to team up and design for the interaction possibilities of AR in a scenario of your choosing. Join us in Brisbane and register to the workshop: https://mergingrealities.wordpress.com/ Find out more about the DIS conference : http://www.dis2016.org/ ________________________________ The information contained in this message may be confidential and legally protected under applicable law. The message is intended solely for the addressee(s). 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