paper submitted

after months of work Wolfgang, Christoph and I submitted a paper to next year's CHI conference in San Jose, CA. It's 0.30 am so we're finished in any possible sense and look forward to a good pint of beer (or two :)

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.