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Terá lugar no próximo dia 13 de Maio de 2009 a cTIC 2009 com a seguinte agenda:

9:00 Sessão de Abertura
Participantes convidados:
Governador Civil de Viseu
Presidente da Cãmara Municipal de Viseu
Presidente do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
Presidente da Escola Superior de Tecnologia de Viseu
Director do Departamento de Informática da ESTV
Representantes dos alunos dos cursos do DI

09:30 Sessão 1
Rich Internet Applications – Uma visão Geral
João Saleiro - RIaPT
Potencialidades das RIA ao serviço da comunidade e das organizações
Pedro Veloso - Areal Media
Moderador: Rui Abrantes - Buzz-id

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 Sessão 2
Microsoft® Silverlight™ - Light up the Web
Gonçalo Chaves - Microsoft Portugal
ADIGITALBOOK (Adobe Flex e AIR )
Rui Cruz - Areal Media
Moderador: Professor Doutor Óscar Mealha

12:45 Almoço

14:00 Sessão 3
Usabilidade em Contextos Multimédia e Web-based
Professor Doutor Óscar Mealha - Universidade de Aveiro
Projecto EZ Show (Adobe Flex e AIR )
Rui Abrantes - Buzz-id
Moderador: Nelson Batista

15:45 Coffee Break

16:00 Sessão 4
Interactividade - Criar novas fronteiras
Nelson Batista
Segurança em Aplicações Web-based e em Rich Internet Applications
Professor Doutor Carlos Serrão - ISCTE
Moderador: João Saleiro - RIaPT

17:30 Sessão de Encerramento
Director do Departamento de Informática da ESTV

As inscrições poderão ser feitas a partir daqui.

BETC Euro RSCG has launched a new communication campaign in partnership with Partizan for ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes). Directed by Asger Leth, the film portrays every step in the chain of abuse, where the face of the people abusing the child is replaced by the face of a European who, we discover at the end of the film, is the man who will look at photographs of the little girl being ill-treated. This reinforces the message at the end of the film that if there is no demand there will be no supply and highlights the responsibility of the clients. From April this campaign will be broadcast for free in the media: television, cinema, press and web have all agreed to contribute. The Air France agencies, airplanes and buses will join in on June and provide an essential showcase. ECPAT will also circulate leaflets and small posters in partnership with their professional tourism partners.

Advertising Agency: BETC Euro RSCG, Paris, France
Creative Director: Florence Bellisson
Art Director: Eric Astorgue, Julien Schmitt
Copywriter: Jean-Christophe Royer, Esther Fockenoy
Photographer: Marc Da Cunha
Published/Released: April 2009

3D Computer Interface from Free Flow on Vimeo.

During long winters with indoor heat running overtime, I imagine you’ve built up your fair amount of static electricity, and as the sparks fly, wondered why you couldn’t put that power to some good use.

Working with electrostatics, a team of students at Northeastern University in Boston have done just that. For their senior design capstone project, they assembled a gestural interface which allows 3D control just by waving a hand in front of a computer. That sort of idea is all the rage these days. The difference here: there’s no camera, no IR emitters, no markers or physical controllers.

You just move your hand in three-dimensional space, and the control data is transmitted to the computer. In fact, it’s one of the more touchless interfaces I’ve seen since the father of them all, the Theremin.

That does appear to be a blanket underneath their hand. Now, being the glutton for punishment I am, I want to figure out a way to do this in which there are sparks.

More on this project as I learn about it, but it looks like it’s got some great potential. The bottom line to me is that there’s every reason to begin interacting with three-dimensional onscreen interfaces using spatial physical interfaces. Joysticks and mice actually do a reasonably good job, but they don’t cover the entire gamut of what’s possible. Now it’s up to the software to start using that control data.

Provoking street campaign which can be seen right now in Melbourne for the Australian Childhood Foundation. For their ongoing campaign Stop Child Abuse Now they used child size mannequins to represent children suffering neglect. The mannequins were placed in high traffic locations around the city and then a billposter was pasted over the top of the figure so only the feet and legs could be seen. Words on the poster read, “Neglected Children are made to feel invisible.”

Advertising Agency: JWT, Melbourne, Australia

Há um mês, falei aqui no blog da campanha da Honda para o seu modelo Insight, com grande aposta no discurso da sustentabilidade.

O comercial “Let It Shine” inaugurou a assinatura “Everyone Wants to Be Good”, através de um gigante painel de LEDs formado por carros.

Agora, a Wieden + Kennedy exibe o mesmo filme de uma maneira inusitada. Uma intervenção no Vimeo, onde a Honda tem um brandchannel, faz a página apagar e acender com o nascer do sol dentro do comercial.

Só vendo pra entender, vai lá. É uma ação bem parecida com a intervenção feita pela Nintendo no YouTube para promover o game “Wario Land”.

| Via Laughing Squid

I am onsite at FITC in toronto recording the event in partnership with Shawn and his team. I grabbed Mark Anders session and posted it online for viewing. An hour ago he gave his session on "A Preview of Adobe Flash Catalyst". It is easily the latest info available on Flash Catalyst and provides a deep look into the product in development.



Note: The audio from this video is set a bit low as there was some popping in the mic. We have since fixed the recording issue.

Cheers,

Ted :)

Cyber guru Don Tapscott talks about how the new generation is changing the world by developing new ways of thinking and interacting. Hooray for the new generation, I’d say. They are committed to do something meaningful with their lives, they are eager to learn, don’t focus on money and want work to be fun.... These 26 minutes are well worth watching.