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Many academic conferences award one or more “best paper”, “best demo” or “best poster” awards. The awardees are either selected by the program committee or by an anonymous audience vote. However, in my opinion, we should get rid of these awards. For three reasons I think these are a bad idea. 1. The big question [...]

I’m attending ITS 2010 – the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010 in Saarbrücken, Germany. This is a short collection of interesting stuff I’ve seen and heard on day 2 (Monday, 6. November 2010). (The demo and poster session is like a huge, dark playground with (literally) tons of amazing touch interfaces.) [...]

I’m attending ITS 2010 – the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2010 in Saarbrücken, Germany. This is a short collection of interesting stuff I’ve seen and heard on day 1 (Sunday, 6. November 2010). (people testing the multitouch device they just built) Sunday started with four tutorials: Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary) [...]