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What is PlaceME?
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An emerging area of interdisciplinary
research is the study of how embodied and virtual social actors
communicate, interact and coordinate their activities in complex
multimodal environments such as we see in the images above.
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| The Nordic research network on
Place,
Mediated discourse and
Embodied interaction (PlaceME) brings
together complementary research groups to investigate places in
which embodied actors interact through diverse materialities,
mobilities, resources, discourses, tools, objects and technologies.
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| The core research conducted by participants in the network will have
a strong applied dimension and it will inform work in
interaction
design,
pervasive computing, architecture, urban planning and the
design of educational environments. |
| The primary purpose of the
network is to provide a rich and stimulating research milieu in
which both scholars and doctoral students benefit from a
computer-supported collaborative group-work paradigm, and hence to
establish joint research training and to consolidate research in
this area as a basis for a joint European project. |
| The network will
hold six doctoral training workshops, facilitate the mobility of
doctoral students and scholars within the Nordic region, organise an
international conference and provide a network website and public
forums for documenting and discussing the activities of the network.
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| The network will also promote interdisciplinarity, methodological
pluralism and cross-cultural awareness. |
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The network is funded by
NordForsk for a period of
three years from October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2009. |
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