UBISS 2014 – 5th International UBI Summer School 2014

Oulu, Finland, June 9-14, 2014

http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-summer-school-2014

Application deadline:  March 24, 2014

UBISS 2014 – the 5th International UBI Summer School 2014 – will be held in Oulu, Finland, on June 9-14, 2014. The summer school provides young researchers with an opportunity to gain hands on experience and insight on selected topics on the multidisciplinary fields of ubiquitous computing and urban informatics under the tutelage of distinguished experts. The summer school is targeted primarily to doctoral (graduate) students, but undergraduate students and postdocs are also welcome to attend. The summer school builds on the legacy of the previous highly successful UBI summer schools held in Oulu in 2010-2013.

The summer school comprises of four parallel 6-day workshops:

A: DESIGNING URBAN INTERACTIONS FOR PARTICIPATORY PUBLICS
Prof. Martin Brynskov, Aarhus University, Denmark

B: URBAN AUGMENTED REALITY
Prof. Steven Feiner, Columbia University, USA

C: LEARNING FROM PEOPLE TO DESIGN FUTURE “ENJOYING MACHINES”
Prof. Oskar Juhlin, Stockholm University, Sweden

D: DESIGNING BODILY PLAY
Dr. Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller, RMIT University, Australia

Further information and the online application form are available at:
http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-summer-school-2014

About UBI

Ubiquitous Oulu is a prototype of a future ubiquitous city which is being built by the multidisciplinary UBI (UrBan Interactions) Program, coordinated by the University of Oulu, and the City of Oulu. Ubiquitous city stands for an urban space in which information technology is being harnessed invisibly and effectively for the use of processes taking place in the space. The objective is to create an urban environment in which better services are being offered to the people of the city.