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Two Lift@home events are scheduled in the near future. Put the dates in your agenda if you are in Moscow or Weimar.
31 Oct 2010, 10:00 - 14:00, Weimar, Germany
"Sustainable Interaction with Food, Technology, and the City" by Jaz Choi
This workshop explores innovative approaches to understanding and cultivating sustainable food culture in urban environments via human-computer-interaction (HCI) design and ubiquitous technologies in urban environments. We perceive the city as an intersecting network of people, place, and technology in constant transformation.
05 Nov 2010, 09:00 - 23:00, Moscow, Russia
"Smart Environments" by Vadim Chekletsov
New trends of NBIC-convergence, Human Enhancement Technologies on the one hand and Smart Environment (Ambient intelligence, Ubiquitous computing, Internet of Things) on the other prepare us to a future paradigm shift blurring Anthropology and Social Philosophy borderlines. We believe the "winning solution" to making the most open, inclusive and innovative Internet of Things is to transcend the short-term opposition between social innovation and security by finding a way to combine these two necessities in a broader common perspective.
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