UIx will co-organize a workshop at upcoming CHI2011 conference: "Appropriation and Creative Use: Linking User Studies with Design":

Sunday 8 May 2011, Vancouver, Canada

End users of technology have a significant power in determining how technologies are used, adapted and re-purposed. Over the years, two communities – designers and user researchers – have been working on these topics but have had limited interaction with each other. This workshop provides a forum for the two to meet.

 I’ll press Play, but I won’t listen: Profile Work in a Music-focused Social Network Service, a full paper by Suvi Silfverberg, Lassi A. Liikkanen and Airi Lampinen was accepted to CSCW 2011 conference taking place in March 19–23, 2011, Hangzhou, China.

People Hesitate to Ask for Help from Their Community, According to New Research

http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/news/20100927onlinecommunityresearch

Paper from Liikkanen and Lahdensuo called Observing the Mobile Music Phenomenon: One in Seven Commuters is Wired will be presented at the Designing Information Systems 2010 conference. Paper has been prepared as a part of the Musiquitous project.

25 May 10:00 Stephen Brewster:

Please join us for an exciting session on the future of mobile human-computer interaction!

INVITED SPEAKER
Professor Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow

TITLE
"Mobile Multimodal Interaction: How can we use human capabilities to improve mobile interfaces"

TIME
Tuesday 25th May (next week!) at 10-11am

PLACE
Auditorium T1, Computer Science Building, Konemiehentie 2