Francesca is going to be interviewed about the hug shirts by Jenny Casterton from BBC Radio Wales for Good Evening Wales program! She is going to be on air at 5.55 pm Rome time, visit Radio Wales website for listening to the interview live broadcast! We love BBC!

CuteCircuit wearables will be featured at Cyberfashion Show event at SIGGRAPH 05 in Los Angeles on August 3rd, meet us there! The Cyberfashion Show is organized by Isa Gordon at Psymbiote.

The hugs shirt had a very long week! Very nice people at Engadget and Near Near Future found it on INDEX 2005 website and started a huge blog chain reaction that extended to Argentina, Switzerland, USA, Russia, Spain, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Corea, Australia, Japan, Italy…

Thank you everybody for writing about our project! To learn more about it visit the Hug Shirt project page.

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Join us in Morioka Iwate, Japan for the NICOGRAPH conference, where Francesca and Ryan will be presenting the Identity Service and Embedded Theater projects.

Francesca chaired the Affective Computing and Emotion session at CHI 05 in Portland, Oregon, USA. The session was very interesting it ranged from sensors to track emotions to emotion sharing telecommunication services, a sort of “from micro to macro” travel through emotion and technology. We met many of our fellow alumni from Interaction Ivrea and lovely Bill Verplank, greetings to you all!

Ryan and Francesca went to visit Benetton’s Fabrica research center on Tuesday. Fabrica is a cool place, full of energy, great people, all wrapped inside a fascinating, partially underground, hidden in the beautiful venetian countryside Tadao Ando architecture. Thank you Andy for the warm hospitality!

Today we will have a 2 hours lecture about CuteCircuit and more broadly about Interaction Design at Medialogi, the Media department of Aalborg Universitet Engineering department. Hosted by great architect and designer Michel Guglielmi! Visit Medialogi website

Ryan and Francesca are in Copenhagen teaching and Interaction Design and Physical Computing workshop for INDEX 05 competition at Danmarks Designskole. Today they will be guest lecturers for the Intersection lectures series at Copenhagen University. Hosted by Hanne Luise Johansenn. The lecture title is Interaction Design: From Objects to Systems. If you are in town feel free to join us there!

What happens when you mix fashion and technology? What happens when you mix art and computers? What happens when you mix media and culture? In December, Francesca and Ryan talked to the 8th grade classes at Caribou Middle School about all these things. Topics focused on Wearable Computing and Interaction Design and the students got a glimpse inside how an interaction design research lab works from the initial breainstorming of the idea right down to the programming of electronics! If you are interested in knowing more about the Dance Interaction project or the development of interactive learning methodologies for children contact us!

Francesca has been interviewed for BBC World Technology Go Digital programme by Tracey Logan and Helen Sharp. The subject of the interview was the new collection of wearables TransforMe, a series of garments that transform themselves during the day according to the wearer’s mood and social activities. The garments were shown officially for the first time in Amsterdam during the Nemo Science Museum’s How Smart are You Dressed Tomorrow? event (see pictures in the previous posts). The interview is broadcasted on BBC Go Digital today Monday 8 and tomorrow Tuesday 9 November 2004 at 1500 GMT, for detailed time schedule for other time zones, and hear the interview visit BBC website. In case you missed it click on the November 8th video archive! or visit BBC World Go Digital