We’ve received more than thirty registrations from all over the world and are expecting to see great talks and to have fruitful hands-on sessions and discussions!

The workshop will take place in BTC.B33 in the Bedson Teaching Centre at 9.00AM on Monday, June 18. Please collect your conference badge in Newcastle University’s Herschel Building and try to arrive around 5 minutes before the workshop begins.

For the practical sessions, each attendee will be assigned to a group of 5 people where they will come up with and implement a Kinect application. One or two Kinect for Windows devices will be provided to each group but we need you to bring your own laptop. So, if you have a Windows laptop, please install “Visual Studio 2010 (C#)” and the latest “Kinect for Windows SDK” and “Kinect for Windows Developer Toolkit” and bring it along to the workshop.

You can download Visual Studio 2010 Professional from www.dreamspark.com if you are affiliated with a university. Otherwise, please install Visual C# 2010 Express. The Kinect SDK and Developer Toolkit can be found at www.kinectforwindows.org

Don’t hesitate to ask if you have a question!

We wish you a safe trip and see you in Newcastle very soon!

David

Notification of Acceptance pushed back to April 3rd.

Kinect has made depth sensing and contactless gesture-based interaction available to anyone and enabled a host of novel NUI applications. It is likely that Kinect will have a significant impact on current and future research in pervasive computing by supporting or replacing many existing approaches to context-aware computing. We are now at a point in time where we can maximize the collective impact of the community by enabling researchers to quickly adopt and share knowledge around uses of this new technology.

The workshop will teach you how to build a functional context-aware Kinect application in half a day and it will give you the opportunity to discuss new ideas, technical questions and the future direction of this community with your peers… (to Call for Participation)