Co-located Nonprofit Centers

Multimodal Co-located Collaboration

1 This work was done in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Massachusetts ABSTRACT People naturally perform multimodal interactions in everyday real world settings, as they collaborate over large visual surfaces such as paper maps on walls and tables. While a new generation of research technologies now supports co-located collaboration, they do not yet dir...

Co-located with Nsdi ’12

How nonprofit and economy can co-exist: A cooperative perspective*

Challenging the economic neo-classical discourse that links the accumulation of profit to its distribution, implies disentangling the two notions and admitting the possibility, for an organization, to distribute surpluses while maintaining its nonprofit character. Likewise, it implies belying the alleged incompatibility between the notion of nonprofit and economic entrepreneurship. This suggest...

Designing for movement-based co-located play

Márquez Segura, E. 2016. Embodied Core Mechanics. Designing for movement-based co-located play. Uppsala Studies in Human-Computer Interaction 3. 174 pp. Uppsala: Department of Informatics and Media. ISBN 978-91-506-2549-3. Movement-based interactive systems for play came into the spotlight over a decade ago, and were met with enthusiasm by the general public as well as the Human-Computer Intera...

Encouraging Co-located Players Social Interaction

This position paper presents our ongoing work for stimulating co-located social engagement among players with a game that resorts to face recognition and another game where players are accompanied in their daily lives by virtual projected imaginary friends. We suggest interaction between imaginary friends of different players that will work as a bridge for interaction among their respective hum...