Prof. Wierzbicki is committee member of the EL2001 Conference in Korea.

The 2011 Conference on Education and Learning will be held on December 8 – 10, 2011 in Jeju Grand Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea.

EL 2011 is one be the most comprehensive Conferences focused on the various aspects of advances in Education and Learning. The Conference provides a chance for academic and industry professionals to discuss recent progress in the area of Education and Learning.

The goal of EL2011 is to bring together the researchers from academia and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, problems and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of Education and Learning.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings: LNCS/CCIS series (indexed by EI and others) published by Springer Verlag. Some papers selected will be included in special journals.

According to work conducted at Stanford University the cognitive performance declines when people try to pay attention to many media channels at once. Clifford Nass, co-author of the study, claims “the study has a disturbing implication in an age when more and more people are simultaneously working on a computer, listening to music, surfing the Web, texting, or talking on the phone. Access to more information tools is not necessarily making people more efficient in their intellectual chores …. people who chronically multitask believe they’re good at it.”

Christoph Finke and Patrick Schubert from COCREE | Media Group, the students of Multimedia Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida, Germany, who currently write their theses under my supervision, developed an experiment which aims to determine how we learn and how we process information when we multitask.

Please consider to take part in the experiment.

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award is a category of the 2011 MindTrek competition. The category is organized collaboratively by MindTrek, Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, New Ambient Multimedia Group (NAMU)/Tampere University of Technology, the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Nokia, and the Ambient Media Association (AMEA). The award is funded by Nokia and the Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing. An international jury has already selected the finalists of this year’s competition. The nominees have just been announced. Please find the details in the official press release.

The EA Blog for Digital Game Culture is a platform by Electronic Arts established to present the world of computers and video games to the readers. The blog discusses different facets of the digital culture, predominantly the backgrounds, developments and future trends of video gaming. Martin Lorber is the host of the EA Blog. Read the interview.

Report by Katrin Reiman (PDF file courtesy of Freie Presse)