One of the agenda items during the Workshop on Connected Multimedia in Hangzhou was to take participants to an area where they tried to recreate Song Dynasty experience by creating architecture, clothing and other activities from that area. This is a good example of Experience Economy. But the most important activity there was a show. [...]
A drunken scientist loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. Another scientist comes over and asks what he’s doing. “I’m looking for my keys” he says. “I lost them over there”. The new scientist looks puzzled. “Then why are you looking for them all the way over here? [...]
Today was the workshop day at ACM MM 2009. I felt that we had too many workshops. I gave keynote at one and presented a paper at another. So whole day was shuttling between the two workshops. I did enjoy preparing for my Social Media workshop Keynote talk. Good news was that Vivek Singh, my [...]
I am in this hotel Beijing Hotel that is connected to the Raffles Hotel and both are very top hotels. It is very surprising, then, that there are no decent coffee or drink places where one could sit and chat. I found the same problem outside also. Except for some areas that appear to be [...]
I am attending ACM Multimedia 2009 conference. This is a premier conference in the field and is the main reason for me to be in China on this trip. The conference is going very well. It is a well organized conference and all the logistics are going very well. The field of Multimedia is a [...]