How to turn off an Apple wireless keyboard

Do you own an Apple wireless keyboard and want to turn it off, but aren't sure how to do it? It's simple: just press the power button on the right side and hold it for a few seconds until the green light goes out. The keyboard is then turned off.

Tiago and the Oculus Rift VR headset

My son is visiting our lab today. He had lot's of fun trying our prototypes. Here he is wearing the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset.  

CmIS workshop was a success!

I organized, together with Pedro Campos (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal) and Andrés Lucero (Nokia Research Center, Finland), the Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces (CmIS) workshop. CmIS was co-located  with the Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS 2013) conference, and was held on October 6 in St. Andrews (UK). It was a success. The workshop involved 27 participants and encompassed 15 individual presentations of latest research work and 5 discussion groups focusing hot topics in the field.

Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces Workshop

Together with Andres Lucero (Nokia Research,Tampere) and Pedro Campos (M-ITI, Madeira University), I am organising the "Collaboration meets Interactive Surfaces" Workshop. This is a co-located event with the "Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces" conference (ITS 2013), which  aims on exchanging experiences regarding collaborative user interface design techniques that were designed for, or adapted to people involved in all kinds of collaborative activities.

Professor Karan Singh is visiting us at IST/TU Lisbon

Karan Singh, Professor in Computer Science at University of Toronto and a leading scientist in the field of sketch-based modelling, is visiting our lab. This picture was taken while he was experimenting our mid-air interaction "Alberti Digital" prototype.