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Prize: Xavier Grasa, GTI co-worker, wins the studies of Computer Science prize.
Publication (spanish only): "Evaluación preliminar de las WCAG 1.0 basada en el diseño de un sitio web sencillo para personas de la tercera edad" Sayago, Sergio; Blat, Josep.
Advanced studies diploma presentations: DEAs presentations. 10th and 11th of november. Ocata, 2nd floor.
Workshop on HCI, the Web and the older population: Conducting thinking-aloud tests and focus groups with the young elderly, by S Sayago and J Blat
Adapting an online website to a Palm OS with the young elderly: Sayago, S. and J. Blat (2006). Adapting an online website to a Palm OS with young elderly people. IADIS Internacional conference WWW/Internet 2006, Murcia (Spain). pp: 115-119, ISBN: 972-8924-19-4. Edited by: Pedro Isaías, Miguel Baptista Nunes and Inmaculada J. Martínez.
xna at universitat pompeu fabra: The Universitat Pompeu Fabra will be the first European university in providing students with Xbox 360 developments in its curriculum
Pictures from GTI presentation at ArtFutura Festival: The GTI presents its projects at the ArtFutura festival within the framework of the Fòrum Creació i Empresa on Saturday 28 October at 17.00 in Mercat de les Flors. www.artfutura.org
Josep Blat interview in COM Radio: GTI director, Josep Blat, was interviewed in COM Radio the 20th October. You can listen the interview here.
A gti's project was awarded second prize in the Catedra Telefónica-UPM competition: Propuesta nº 7: Emotinet: un framework para mejorar la relación entre seres humanos en base a una comunicación indirecta, continua y periférica. Oscar Serrano, Jesús Ibáñez, David García, Beatriz Molinuevo y Josep Blat. http://internetng.dit.upm.es/premio.htm#resolucion
New Project: APADIS: El proyecto APADIS generará un entorno virtual de aprendizaje accesible para personas mayores. El aprendizaje será abierto y a distancia para la educación formal y el tiempo libre de las personas mayores.
New Project: SEMEDIA: SEMEDIA aims to create new methods, environments and widely usable tools for media labelling, searching and retrieval from very large collections of heterogeneous data, building on and extending research in media technologies, web semantics, AI, CBIR and interface design.
GTI presentation at NextFun event: The GTI presents its projects at the NextFun event within the framework of the Fòrum Creació i Empresa on Saturday 27 October at 16.00 in Mercat de les Flors. www.nextfun.org
SEMEDIA meeting in Graz: SEMEDIA members met in Graz, Austria, on 10 and 11 December. The meeting took place at the centre JOANNEUM RESEARCH.
Galaxy Scraper awarded at Independent Games Festival: Galaxy Scraper, a videogame developed by five students of the Master en Creación de Videojuegos, awarded at Independent Games Festival (USA).
Galaxy Scraper at TV3: Catalan TV, TV3, has done a report about Galaxy Scraper and the Master of Creating Videogames IUA-IDEC.
Davinia Hernández-Leo awarded: Davinia Hernandez-Leo, member of GTI, has received two awards for her PhD thesis.
BCN Play at iCatFM: Interview with Daniel Sánchez-Crespo, director of BCN Play -videogames summer programme-, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.