football is great

Football Fans,
originally uploaded by bernd ploderer.

Sorry to all my Volleyball colleagues, I have to admit that watching football (even though the level in Austria is very low) is a great activity. Christoph and I watched Red Bulls Salzburg vs. SK Sturm Graz last Sunday. Christoph kept his fingers crossed for Salzburg while I did the same for Sturm. Well Sturm lost, but that was no big surprise. The nice thing is, that you can enjoy a game even in a half-drunk condition(as an excuse for this picture ;-)

myspace

I'm "using" some web 2.0 applications for personal interest (www.subpersonic.net will remain my most important site) and I also opened up an account on MySpace http://www.myspace.com/subpersonic Have 0 friends at the moment, so please join me :)
You find additional web 2.0 sites in the Links section.

website changes

I also changed the server for my website and I'm currently experiencing some minor problems, e.g. the guestbook doesn't work. Should you notice any other problems, please contact me, thx, bernd

subpersonic.net is born

Thanks to Christoph (biiiiiiiG THX) this website is now available on a real domain name: http://www.subpersonic.net/ :)

creepy social robot

creepy social robot,
originally uploaded by bernd ploderer.

I'm currently at the RO-MAN conference (The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, ro-man2006.feis.herts.ac.uk/) and today we had some live robot demos. I'm not sure I really would like to play the drums with this little guy, but all in all the conference is quite interesting and shows me that also the big names are not so far away from what we are doing. Hopefully can present a paper next year at this event by myself.

CitySound Projekt

The CitySound Projekt connects the history of places in Salzburg with
music and textual information integrated in a cool Flash movie. A great
project (unfortunately only in German) on http://www.citysound.at/
created by a friend.

ars electronica gala

I was at the Ars Electronica gala in Linz last Friday, where the Golden Micas were awarded to media artists. Some of the masterpiece were really amazing, above all the winner in the categorie of digital movies (or similar). The artists created a computer simulated of two snails in a dark techno style with fantastic music and everything very aesthetically, wow. The theme of this years festival is "simplicity: the art of complexity" and since I'm working in the field of usability, I also had to go to the exhibitions: some great work but some things were already from the last year and not so exciting. However, if you 've never been there - go there, it's amazing what is possible with new technology and creative ideas. http://www.aec.at/