Seminars

Chimera hosts monthly 'public' seminars given by internal and external speakers. These are usually held at 13:00 on the 2nd Tuesday of every month and information regarding upcoming seminars and materials from past seminars can be found here.

All movies are in .wmv format. You can download Windows Media Player here.

WARNING: Movies have large file sizes!

Date	Presenter	Affiliation	Title	Abstract*	Slides*	Movie*/Paper
11/03/08	Christos Kalkanis	Chimera & Dept Computing & Electronic Systems, Univ ersity of Essex	Towards end-user physiological profiling for video recommendation engines
13/02/08	Neil Serougi	Director of ICT, Solihull Care Trust	Experiences of 'Connecting for Health'
13/11/07	Lindsay O'Neill	Chimera	Making Sense of Conflicts Over Control in Shared Households
7/10/07	Dr Rebecca Ellis	Chimera	Let's e-Bay it
11/9/07	Emma Bond	Chimera	Mobile phone = bike shed? Children, mobile phones and sex
17/7/07	Lindsay O'Neill	Chimera	Making Sense of Conflicts Over Control in Shared Households
19/6/07	William Gaver	Goldsmiths	Interaction Design for Everyday Technologies
12/6/07	Dr Rebecca Ellis	Chimera	Everyday Technological Experiences of Small Businesses
9/5/07	Dr Caroline Partridge	Chimera	Older people, ageing and technology - challenges and opportunities
12/12/06	Hongmei Wang	Hebei University of Economics and Business	Beliefs in Modern China
3/10/06 (Ross Meeting Room)	Dr Tadamas Kimura	Associate Prof at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo	Internet Use among the Japanese
13/06/06	Bernard Horan	Sun Microsystems	Knowledge-driven Hyperlinks: A Semantic Web Application
09/05/06	Dr Andrew King	University of Bristol	Using Online Delphi software for rapid decision making
11/04/06	Joy Van Helvert	Chimera, University of Essex	Chinese students' experiences of UK Higher Education - a sense making approach
13/12/05 NB: 1100-1200hrs	Rebecca Ellis & Anna Haywood	Chimera, University of Essex	Cultures of eBay: An overview of an ESRC-funded project, 'Virtually second-hand'
24/11/05 NB: 1100-1200hrs	Chanyong Niu	Shanghai Jaio Tong University	Trust models in P2P networks
27/09/05	Dr Peng Han	Shanghai Jaio Tong University	Innovative techniques in future e-learning: challenges and opportunities
27/05/05	Andrew King	University of Bristol	Reducing Waste: Repair, Recondition, Remanufacture or Recycle?
24/05/05	Susan Kenyon	University of West of England	Multitasking: The influence of Internet use and the implications for travel behaviour
12/4/05	David Leitner	University of Cambridge	A Successful Future: Networking, innovation and the market as a moral agent in Cambridge bioscience - Notes from the Field
14/03/05	Daniel Birke	University of Nottingham	Social networks and consumer choice of mobile phone operators
08/03/05	Joy Van Helvert	Chimera, University of Essex	Making Sense of British Education: Significant moments of adjustment for Chinese students
08/02/05	Jonathan Roberts	University of Kent	Non-visual visualisation - learning from the visual
18/1/05	Goetz Bachman	Goldsmiths College	Ethnography of the New
14/12/04	Martin Harris	University of Essex (Accounting, Finance and Management)	Theorising ICT and Institutional Change: The Case of the British Library
10/11/04	Tim Dant	UEA (Sociology Department)	Interacting with Objects
12/10/04	Alasdair Crockett (& David Voas)	ISER/UKDA University of Essex (University of Manchester)	Religion in Britain: Neither believing nor belonging
14/09/04	Dawn Nafus	University of Essex	Gender and open source programme: what does history tell us?
15/08/04	Leslie Haddon	University of Essex/LSE	Researching the Communications Repertoire
13/07/04	Deb Diduca	University of Essex	Ageing and technology
08/07/04	Chris Fowler	University of Essex	The Learning Partnership Presentation
15/06/04	Prof. Alan Macfarlane Ms Xiao Xiao Jan	University of Cambridge	Digital Anthropology and The Broadband-enabled communities – An Anthropological Approach
12/05/04	Laurence Brooks	Brunel University	Enhancing group support technology in organisations
13/04/04	Trudy Barber	University of Kent	Computer Fetishism and Sexual Futurology
02/03/04	Gerben Bakker	University of Essex	Setting the Standard: Path dependence and the economics of standardisation in the music industry
10/02/04	Mark Brady	Chimera	weblogs: Theory and History
13/01/04	Ben Anderson	Chimera
11/11/03	Joy van Helvert	Chimera	Cross-cultural approaches to e-learning
14/10/03	Anna Haywood	Chimera	Social Futures & Beyond: Considering the User Experience?
9/09/03	Deb Diduca	Chimera	Can people Inspired Innovation predict disruptive technologies?
11/08/03	Christian Sandvig	University of Illinois/OII	Wi-Fi: The Prospects for Fast, Free and Accidental Infrastructure
24/02/04	Michael Gardner	Chimera	Pervasive ICT: a framework to support device and session mobility			(19.1 mb)
24/02/04	Deborah DiDuca	Chimera	Communities: formation and sustainability			(23.1 mb)
24/02/04	Ben Anderson	Chimera	Domestic broadband internet: uptake and usage			(24.2 mb)
24/02/04	Caroline Partridge	Chimera	The ageing population and uptake of technology			(17.3 mb)
24/02/04	Becky Ellis	Chimera	Work/Home boundaries and user perceptions of ambient intelligence			(22.5 mb)
24/02/04	Chris Fowler	Chimera	Understanding customer behaviour: tools, methods and techniques			(26.3 mb)
24/02/04	Mike Tate	Chimera	Introduction to Chimera			(4.3 mb)

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