Every year the Liljevalchs museum in Stockholm puts on the Vårsalongen exhibit showing all new artworks, handpicked from more than 2000 submissions. This year Mobile Life is contributing to the exhibit by exploring visitors’ experiences with the Lega (på svenska). This week and next week’s Thursday, Friday and Saturday are your last chance to check out the Legas (and our last chance to talk to you about your experience). If you’re visiting Vårsalongen with a group of 2-5 people and want to make sure the Legas will be available during your visit, email jarmo@mobilelifecentre.org.
New paper! June 18th we’ll present our work on touch and human-robot interaction at CASA 2009 here in Amsterdam. The full paper will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. Our paper discusses an experiment on the effects of (observing) touch and proactivity on attitudes towards embodied social agents. Based on our results we think a holistic approach to interaction design for embodied characters’ social behaviour is the way to go. 
