Links

• Multi-modal Interaction Group at Glasgow University.
• Haptic-L: the haptics mailing list.

Some HCI and mobile related conferences/journals:

• ACM CHI (or, more generally, SIGCHI): The biggest (well someone's got to be) HCI conference.
• ACM UIST: Another ACM conference, focusing more exclusively on technology
• ACM Ubicomp: computers.... everywhere....
• ACM CSCW: ACM conference covering collaborative systems
• Mobile HCI: HCI on mobile devices
• Interact: bi-yearly HCI conference
• Pervasive: computers.... everywhere....
• TOCHI: the largest HCI related journal from the ACM.

A list of SCI-E (ISI Web of Knowledge listed) HCI journals, complete with impact factors and URLS can be found here: www.whereveriam.org/work/journals.html.

Some haptics/VR conferences:

• The Haptics Symposium: an etablished American haptics conference.
• EuroHaptics: the most significant European haptics conference.
• WorldHaptics: they join together every two years to produce a world event
• IEEE VR: the Haptics Symposium is usually held in conjunction with IEEE VR

Some digital arts conference:

• ISEA: bi-annual, big budget
• SIGGRAPH: more of a festival than a conference
• Ars Electronica: every year in Austria

General links on narrative and locative media:

• Valentina Nisi: her website which covers her locative work
• Re:: online magazine for locative media
• dStory: digital storytelling conference
• StoryCenter: centre for digital storytelling
• Autostart: a digital Literature festival
• StoryTron: a system for building interactive narratives
• Facade: an interactive narative game

Some programming related links:

• The C FAQ: the first place to look.
• Codeguru: a great site for MS Windows programming resources.
• SourceForge: hosts many active, inovative and useful open source development projects.
• Interactive Digital Filter Design: nice site that generates pseudo-code for some basic filters.

Some general nonsense:

• Glastonbury Music Festival: for 5 June days in an (often) muddy field.
• The HalfBakery: the home of true invention.....
• American Science and Surplus: here you can buy almost anything.
• Firebox: a good UK based gadget shop.
• Maporama: quality mapping site.
• Entertainment.ie: comprehensive guide to whats on in Ireland.
• The Cobblestone: Far from my local, but where I always seem to end up.....
• Spider: a version of the card game spider that I wrote for the palm pilot.

Some travel links

• CIBT: comprehensive visa information (and expedition service) for a bunch of nationalities (including UK). From the look of the site, may one day become a pay service.
• World Nomads: buy travel insurance easily cheaply and independant of where you currently are
• Zuji: a good online travel agent with branches all over asia (and including Oz)
• TourExpress: the online travel agent I use in Korea (in Korean).
• Opodo: online travel agent in many different European countries

Handy Budget airlines

• MartinAir: Dutch, with some cheap-ish flights across the atlantic, including some carribean options.
• Tiger Airways: Singapore, cheap deals round SE Asia, including a stretch down to Darwin
• Air Asia:KL, another good one for SE Asia, apparantly the market leader in the region.

About Korea:
These are some links from where I used to work (in summer/autumn 05).

• GIST: main site in English
• Human Machine Computer Interface Lab: where I work exactly
• Info and Comms Dept: some other interesting groups at GIST

• Cultural promotion site: not much useful info sadly
• City info site: a little more factual info, travel details, etc
• Gwangju International Center: sadly, almost entirely in Korean, with a dead link to an English translation

• ETRI, where I now work
• Socius, a group of expats who maintain a community site
• Expatskorea, a yahoo group for local Daejeon expats
• Daedeok Toastmasters, a group of people who get together once a week to practice their English public speaking skills in KAIST
• The Daejeon International Community Centre
• Azucar, a latin dance bar/club... one day I will learn
• Jakwangsa a nearby temple
• Daejeon tourist information site
• Daejeon findall.co.kr, a good place to look for accomodation.... if you can read Korean
• The main Daejeon local goverment site (in English)
• The local goverment for Yuseong, the neighbourhood ETRI is situated in
• The local goverment for Daedeok, another nearby area
• Regional goverment site for Chungnam, which reaches from Daejeon all the way west to the ocean

• GalbiJim, a wiki on Korea
• Korea listing, a whats on in Korea
• Korea Bridge, a forum site
• Expat in Korea, another forum site
• Dave's ESL cafe, a job/forum site, mainly for English teachers
• Tour 2 Korea, an tourism and info site
• Korea Info Gate, a tourism and travel focused portal
• The Chosun Ilbo, a newspaper
• The Korea Herald, another newspaper
• The Korea Times, a final newspaper
• Korean Air's website
• Asiana's website (another Korean airline)
• KTX, high speed rail website
• The main Korean immigration website
• Art Center Nabi, a centre for digital art in Seoul
• What the Book, a Seoul bookstore where you can order books online all over Korea