Monthly Archives: January 2012

The School of Computing’s David Skillicorn commented on the decision by Twitter to restrict tweets in certain countries, on the Roy Green Show (syndicated radio show carried on 11 stations across Canada, including AM 640 Toronto).

ACM SIGCHI TEI 2012 (Tangible Embedded, Embodied Interaction) 19-22 February 2012, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Tangible Embedded, Embodied Interaction (TEI 2012) is one month away! Register soon at http://tei-conf.org/12/Main/Registration as space is limited. The conference … Continue reading →

The School of Computing’s Nick Graham was recently asked by Sun News Network to talk about today’s ultra-violent video games and how that violence is likely to affect our youth. See the whole interview here.

We are proud to announce that three researchers in the Queen’s School of Computing have been awarded an NSERC Early Career Researcher Supplement. Congratulations to Manuela Kunz, Bram Adams, and Abd-Elhamid Taha on this nod of appreciation from the research … Continue reading →

Roel Vertegaal and the team at the Human Media Lab are working diligently to further develop the technology behind roll-up screens for devices from smart phones to tablets to large-screen TVs. The Calgary Herald reports that the technology is not … Continue reading →

If you still find your inbox inundated with unwanted messages from far away royalty offering you free money, or companies claiming they’ll send you pharmaceuticals at a fraction of their price, you were likely pleased with the federal government’s announcement … Continue reading →