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EIT ICT Labs

The EIT ICT Labs Master School offers two year programmes where you can choose two universities in two different European countries to build a curriculum of your choice based on your skills and interest. The school offers double degrees, which combines technical competence with a set of skills in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. While you get an excellent theoretical education, you also get the opportunity to work with European top research institutes and leading business partners.

Deadline for applications: February 15th 

Visit EIT ICT Labs Master School on

• http://eitictlabs.masterschool.eu
• http://www.facebook.com/ICTInnovation
• http://www.linkedin.com/company/eit-ict-labs-master-school
• http://twitter.com/eitictlabsms ”

by Dr. Jun Hu and Prof. Loe Feijs @IDI, Zhejiang University, 2011 @IDI, Zhejiang University, 2011.

(if you can not see the YouTube video, a link to the YouKu video is at the end of the article. “Read more …” to reveal it.)

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ICE EMJD

The deadline of the EMJD ICE Call for Application is approaching: 15 January 2012 at 12 AM CET.

The Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme in Interactive and Cognitive Environments offers PhD candidates a education programme in the field of research related to computer science, electronic and telecommunication engineering. Candidates must hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree or equivalent title and in-depth knowledge and understanding of the principles of ICT engineering.

TU/e is involved in the research area of “Design for Social Interaction”.

More about EMJD/ICE, see www.icephd.org.

A new round of  EMJD call for application is open. Download ICE_call_III_cohort (PDF) for details.

Original article from OpenLight.nl, by Rombout Frieling, creative director OPENLIGHT and project initiator, Light Through Culture.

LIGHT THROUGH CULTURE

The Final Day to Finalize

During the past two weeks, 14 young designers from the Netherlands and China worked together intensively in a masterclass led by the OPENLIGHT creative light laboratory.

For two days, the team lived with Beijing’s cleaners, bus drivers, parents and school kids.

They turned their insights from Beijing Culture into three lighting concepts, which we show here in three cylinders. The purpose is a dialogue about how smart lighting can contribute to a healthy city.

The presented installations are realised by technologies such as intelligent systems and LEDs, which reveal new design opportunities.

At OPENLIGHT, the creative lab of the Intelligent Lighting Institute (ILI, Eindhoven, the Netherlands), we explore for instance how light can help us focus, reflect, regulate our biorhythms, improve safety or escape from hectic everyday life.

OPENLIGHT initiated ‘Light through Culture’ to respond to cultural challenges in various cities, such as here in Beijing with Tsinghua University. We present the results for you in three cylinders:

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Guest Professor Appointment

September 5, 2011. I am very proud of being appointed as a Guest Professor at School of Digital Media, Jiangnan University. I am looking forward to more productive cooperation with my Chinese colleagues.

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Yesterday together with Mathias Funk, we organized a workshop for about 20 student at the department of Industrial Design, TU/e. The idea is to use WordPress as the content management system for making their portfolios or showcases. It was a 4-hour workshop, difficult for both us and the students. But after all, students got the idea and the workshop was well-received. We were exhausted though

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De Food Robots

Knol-ontwerp takes the AdMoVeo on tour  with Nerdlab. AdMoVeos serve as ‘de food robots’, catching the attention from ‘Cursor’, the university newspaper of TU Eindhoven:

“TU/e’s TUlip vertoont kunsten op Nerdlab

7 oktober 2010 - Mediakunstenaars, technici en wetenschappers presenteren hun werk op het gebied van robotica tijdens ‘Nerdlab 8: Robots on tour’. Het multidisciplinaire festival strijkt zondag 10 oktober neer in Eindhoven, om precies te zijn bij TAC aan de Vonderweg. Onder meer de TUlip van de faculteit Werktuigbouwkunde mag er laten zien wat hij kan.

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From June 6 to 9, prof. Matthias Rauterberg and I were invited to the School of Design,  Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China. In these 3 days, we presented our education system and our research projects to the teachers and students, had several discussions about possible cooperations in both education and research, and organized a one day workshop “discrete interaction design” for 30 students. The students were very much interested in the topics we presented, especially the interactive way of presenting them. It was a successful and fruitful visit. We definitely look forward to the cooperations.

News about our visit on the website of Jiangnan University:

• http://www.sodcn.com/detail.asp?n_id=441 (Click here for Google translation)
• http://xinwen.jiangnan.edu.cn/xyzl/2010/0622/5559.html (Click here for Google translation)

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Dance, robot!

Yesterday I managed a one-day workshop on dichotomies in designing distributed systems, for 25 master students in the class “Designing for Systems”. The dichotomies addressed were standalone/distributed, centralized control/decentralized control, and process-/product-oriented design, as well as a hidden agenda for the conflicts between standards and implementations. In this workshop I wanted the student to “experience” the dichotomies Instead of me telling the story.

Two types of distributed systems were focused on, client/server and peer to peer. Students were divided into four groups, one working on C/S, two on P2P and another on standardization of data and communication. They are briefed and quickly pushed into hands-on work to make a few AdMoVeo robots to dance together, in a distributed setting.

The workshop worked out quite well in terms of its designed goals, and actually it was beyond my expectations – I did not expect that robots would really dance together, but at the end of the day, all the teams managed to show something, at least partially working. One of the other things surprised me was the difficulties they had in creating and parsing XML documents, which was suggested for saving time from standardizing the data and message formats. I could have made some partially working code snippets to reduce the load.