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X-WR-CALNAME:IxDA Silicon Valley :: Life Beyond Embodiment
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070322
SUMMARY:IxDA Silicon Valley :: Life Beyond Embodiment
LOCATION:Sunnyvale, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007
\nSocializing and refreshments:
  7-7:30 pm
\nProgram: 7:30-9:30 pm
\nPlace: Yahoo!, Sunnyvale
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\nSome yea
 rs ago, Paul Dourish introduced the concept of embodiment, which describes 
 the distance between bytes and atoms. Leandro  Agrò will speak about how a
 n Italian company is working to reduce this distance, by creating emotional
  virtual agents to move bytes toward atoms on one side, while moving atoms 
 toward bytes, Second Life's human users, on the other.
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\n:: Leandro AgrÃ
 ² has more than 10 years of experience as an interaction designer and manag
 er of IxD teams. With extensive experience in multimodal interfaces based o
 n eyetracking, he recently was seduced by the potential of virtual assistan
 ts with human-like behaviors. Leandro studied interaction design at the Dom
 us Academy, in Milan, Italy—working on the '97 Apple Design Project. He i
 s actively involved with the Milano Bicocca University, TorVergata Universi
 ty, Siena University, and others. Leandro is a prolific writer on topics fr
 om IxD, usability, and UX to natural, multimodal user interfaces. He is the
  founder of Idearium.org, the first Italian eZine/community for UX designer
 s and co-producer of the Interaction Frontiers conference. For more informa
 tion, see Leandro's blog, leeander.com.
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\nCo-sponsors of this event:
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 \n    * IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Silicon Valley Face to Face
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 n    * BayCHI IxD BOF
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