Are you able to guide Abby to seduce a rock star, Chris, promised to stay virgin until marriage? In order to success you need to gather dirty little secrets, use those secrets in your advantage, and make an impression on Chris.

Features:

•* four seduceable characters
•* flirt, mislead, eavesdrop, and pump information
•* persuade characters to help you to reach the goal
•* play Texas hold’em poker
•* dance to impress
•* non-player characters forms opinions based on your choices
•* three different endings

Not recommended children under age of 15.

Game is free and is available at www.liesandseductions.com.
(OSX and Windows versions available. Windows version works in Linux on Wine.)

Nokia . Expand – a mobile school communication device for children in developing regions of the world

WHAT IS THE CONTEXT OF YOUR PRESENTATION?

Product Developing Project, TKK at Design Factory

A DESCRIPTION OF YOUR PRESENTATION

A short overview of who we are, what the project is about, what we did so far and what is going to happen next.

PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT?

Sponsored by Nokia and D-Switch
Participating Universities: TaiK, TKK, IITK, MIT, RISD

Media Lab persons: Anna Keune, Jari Suominen

PERSONS PRESENTING IT?

Anna Keune, Jari Suominen

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION?

anna.keune(at)gmail(dot)com, jari.suominen(at)helsinki(dot)fi

INVITEES?

Everyone is welcome!

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Markus Kåhre:
“We are working on the show together (Susanne and I), not only doing a joint exhibition but making all the works together. The center piece is a huge painted installation with the idea of stepping into a painting. The projection works like the main counterpoint to that. The exhibition investigates the relation between picture
and space, museum and the outside, art and reality. We are also searching after a new kind of dramaturgy in the field of visual art.”

The idea of the projection installation is to track moving people on the street outside the museum window and project their silhouettes on a canvas inside the exhibition space. The continuity of people walking on the canvas and then by the window makes people part of the installation.

New Media MA students Ramyah Gowrishankar and Liisa Tervinen along with Ilpo Kari (Chief coordinator) are working on the project during the winter 2008-2009.

Urban Mediator is a web-based open source software that provides a way for citizens and cities to mediate local, location-based discussions, activities, and information. Its iterative development has involved a variety of co-design activities with residents, schoolchildren, the local development company, and city planners, among others. Urban Mediator has also been used in public trials that included various participatory projects set up by the City of Helsinki in 2007 and 2008. The Urban Mediator tool is available as a platform for new R&D collaborations: http://um.uiah.fi

Synopsis
Players must maintain a carbon neutral, happy home for a year. The player uses the mouse to turn appliances on or off, thereby affecting the carbon emission and happiness levels, which in turn influence their monthly bills. They are given a monthly income that can be used to purchase energy saving devices to thus offset their emissions and increase their happiness simultaneously.

Players work to balance carbon neutral emissions produced by their characters in the house with household harmony and happiness.

www.carbonecogame.com

Urban Mediator interface is available for both PC and Mobile browsers. The interface is currently localized into English, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch and Russian.

Urban Mediator has been developed by the ARKI group at Media Lab, through the EU-funded ICING project (2006-2008). Its development was done iteratively, following a co-design approach involving various stakeholders in Helsinki, and later in the two other ICING cities, Barcelona and Dublin. The Urban Mediators set up for the three cities are currently in use by city administrations, communities, and individuals.

UM Helsinki: http://um.uiah.fi/hel

UM Barcelona: http://um.uiah.fi/bcn

UM Dublin: http://um.uiah.fi/dub

For testing purposes, please use UM demo: http://um.uiah.fi/demo

For more information please visit the Urban Mediator info website or contact [email]joanna.saad-sulonen@taik.fi[/email].
Developers are also invited to visit the Urban Mediator project page on Source Forge.

The project was developed for the Nokia Mobile Innovation Competition 2008 and has now been acquired by Zipipop – where it is being developed into a functional service with a sustainable business model. joinups.mobi

Helsinki Skaala Opera’s Turing Machine opera, composed by Eeppi Ursin and Visa-Pekka Mertanen, is comprised mainly of new electronic music and realtime sampling of old and new material. The libretto is based on the play “Turing” by Miko Jaakkola, which tells the strange life story of this exceptionally talented and complex person. The 3D visualization and digital scenography is by Merja Nieminen and the Crucible Studio team as part of the Salero project.

Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a British mathematician who made history. His breaking of the German U-boat Enigma cipher in World War II ensured Allied-American control of the Atlantic. But Turing’s vision went far beyond the desperate wartime struggle. Already in the 1930s he had defined the concept of the universal machine, which underpins the computer revolution. In 1945 he was a pioneer of electronic computer design. But Turing’s true goal was the scientific understanding of the mind, brought out in the drama and wit of the famous “Turing test” for machine intelligence and in his prophecy for the twenty-first century.

Drawn in to the cockpit of world events and the forefront of technological innovation, Alan Turing was also an innocent and unpretentious gay man trying to live in a society that criminalized him. In 1952 he revealed his homosexuality and was forced to participate in a humiliating treatment program, and was ever after regarded as a security risk. His suicide in 1954 remains one of the many enigmas in an astonishing life story.
More information from Ooppera Skaala’s home pages:
http://www.oopperaskaala.fi

or Crucible Studio’s home pages:
http://crucible.uiah.fi
The 3D scenography for Helsinki Skaala Opera’s Turing Machine is realized by the Crucible Studio team as an experimental production for the EU Commission funded research project, SALERO (http://www.salero.info)

In connection with Helsinki Skaala Opera’s multimedia opera Turing Machine (premiered in Helsinki May 2008), Crucible Studio created Turing Enigma. It is an on-line chatting experience, which continues the thematics of the Turing Machine opera and provides new points of view to the fascinating life of Alan Turing (1912-1954).

Turing, a heroic wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science, made a provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think. As a person he was “an ordinary English homosexual atheist mathematician”, which led him, tragically, to commit suicide by cyanide poisoning.

In Turing Enigma, Alan Turing’s spirit has infiltrated the German WWII encrypting device Enigma, the “unbreakable” code of which Turing successfully cracked. The user can play the role of the cryptologist and engage in discussions in English with Alan Turing’s spirit on the web site. The artificial character can recognize words and sentences from text typed-in by users and then reply accordingly with text and by “spitting out” various 3D-animated objects and sounds out of the Enigma machine.

Turing Enigma is on-line at:
http://www.taik.fi/turingenigma

Crucible Studio is a research group of the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Turing Enigma is done as part of the Salero EU-project (http://www.salero.info).