• Archive for September, 2008

    Logos robot orchestra

    by  • Tuesday 30 September 2008 • Research

    While in Gent a couple of weeks ago I had the chance to visit the Logos Foundation and hear a concert with the robot orchestra. It was very interesting to hear Godfried-Willem Raes talk about his instruments and his music making, which has been going on for almost 40 years.

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    Verb labels

    by  • Tuesday 30 September 2008 • Software • 0 Comments

    I hadn’t thought about the lack of verb labels in Windows as opposed to OSX before I read this blog entry. The point made is that adding some meaning to the buttons we push greatly enhance the usability, since it is not necessary to read the text above the buttons. Look at the two examples [...]

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    On the news

    by  • Sunday 28 September 2008 • Research

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    A journalist from the national broadcaster NRK came to our opening on Friday, and he made a story which was shown on the “cultural news” Friday night. The clip can be seen here (in Norwegian). Below is an image of Rolf Inge Godøy being interviewed before the opening.

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    Lab opening

    by  • Saturday 27 September 2008 • Uncategorized

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    Our new research lab was officially opened yesterday. Director of the Sensing Music-related Actions project Rolf Inge Godøy held a short introduction to the project and to our new research group and lab. He also announced the new name for our interdisciplinary research group: fourMs – Music, Mind, Motion, Machines. The name has a double [...]

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    Lab opening

    by  • Tuesday 16 September 2008 • Research

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    As I have blogged about over on our project page, we are going to have an official opening of the new lab next Friday. Please come over if you are in the neighbourhood.

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