This morning two research students from KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) paid a visit to us in the Kista Idea Lab. As part of their ongoing research training we – Lisbeth, Britta and Åke – were asked to form a focus group discussing the topic ”Human-Computer Interaction in a library context”. The chat was taped [...]

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Ulf Jämterud was invited today by the Stockholm Public Library to give a talk to the staff on how school teachers and pupils work with ICT. Jämterud works as a high school teacher himself but is also a freelance writer for Skolverket and a guest lecturer at Stockholms university. Jämterud talks from the [...]

Just installed the Local Books iPhone app by LibraryThing. Works well it seems, managed to locate Kista library, Husby library etc. Cool! /Åke

Mattias Pettersson, Kista Idea Labs utsände på Dreamhack Winter 2009, gick runt och filmade för att ta tempen på spelkulturen av idag. Mattias intervjuade även fyra profiler i spelvärlden om speltrender, deltagarkultur och bibliotek. Läs här de intressanta svaren, fundera och tyck till!

”A wizard has turned you into a whale. Is this awesome? (Y/N)”, står [...]

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Kista Idea Lab – framtidens biblioteket här och nu ”I dag har Kista flera definitioner. Det är Kista Science City, Kista Galleria och bostadsområdet i Kista. Det är nu på väg att förändras. Gränserna är på väg att överbryggas, med de nya bostäderna vid Kista Gård och det virtuella gränslösa samtalet mellan människor [...]

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The Jönköping University Library is a great inspirer for library innovation. Check out this video from their recently celebrated Library Day!
/Åke

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Leo Babauta on how to deal with the information overflow. Are you an information curator?

This exclusive presentation was given live for the participants of INFOtrender 2009 in Göteborg.

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This technique has the potential to improve interaction facilities in public spaces. 3D interaction with simple hand movements could create a simple and very user friendly interface for guiding purposes, for example in a library. No keyboard, no mouse, just your own hands!

There are more cellphone users in the world than PC users. Where are the libraries in this development? Now we have Iphone, Google Android and other smart phones. Many companies have had success with their Iphone Apps.
Here you can read more about the App-day
www.atomer.se/appdokumentation
/Kristoffer