Concert – a.bel @ Casa da Música
For the first time in the world the public will be asked to not turn their phone off. The artists will share the role of the play with the public and their smartphones, on a world premiere that will join, on 26 October in Suggia Room of Casa da Música, over a thousand people with their mobile devices saxophones, percussion and electronic instruments. The "a.bel - new interactive music" is a celebration of the impact of technology on music, a...
Interactive Installation – resono @ Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado
Resono is an interactive installation based on the principle that the basis of autonomy is the capacity to say, "No!" It consists of an ecosystem of 15 beings who await the arrival of a visitor, each of them with different emotions ranging from anxiety to curiosity. This is the first step in the development of an interaction, achieved through the courteousness with which one approaches the beings and the tenderness with which one sings to a small group of them. Gradually,...
NEM e-Economy Day
e-Economy Day. A digital economy under debate. e-Economy intends to discuss a reality of the digital media ecosystem in Portugal, with special emphasis on three main areas: entrepreneurship, content distribution and game creation. More info here.
Concert – a.bel and Berklee College of Music
The concert "a.bel - New Music Interactive" had its second edition in the David Friend Hall, one of the auditoriums of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, on March 3, with a presence of about 100 spectators. "The concert was not exactly a replica since there was a new piece made by students from Berklee Interdisciplinary Arts Institute," explains Rui Penha, investigator of Telecommunications and Multimedia Centre of INESC TEC and responsible for the project. The idea of bringing...
NewsIR’16
Overview Mainstream media outlets are often among the most relevant, influential and powerful sources of information. This ranges from the influence that newspapers have on elections to the damage to a brand’s reputation that a negative article on a popular blog can cause. Information Retrieval (IR) applied to news has been a popular research area for decades but it would be a mistake to assume that news search has been ‘solved’. Not only can algorithms still be improved but also...