Lalya Gaye

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Lalya Gaye Future Applications Lab, Viktoria
Institute Göteborg, Sweden
www.viktoria.se/lalya
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Ubiquitous Computing for Everyday Aesthetic
Practices Ubiquitous Computing (M. Weiser) away
from desktop settings, available at hand in the
real world where needed, where the action is
From the pre-designed interaction spaces of
digital technologies to the raw everyday physical
world the everyday as resource for creation and
personal expression I am interested in how we can
use this new type of technology to enable new
types of aesthetic practices in peoples everyday
life
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FAL, Viktoria Institute Viktoria Institute
Research institute in applied information
technology, in Göteborg, Sweden. Future
Applications Lab 6 PhD students one senior
adviser (Lars Erik Holmquist) Research focus at
FAL Ubiquitous computing, mobile and locative
media, information visualisation, tangible
computing, human-computer interaction,
interaction design, etc
www.viktoria.se/fal
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My background BSc Physics (University of Geneva,
Switzerland) MScEng Engineering Physics (Royal
Institute of Technology KTH, Stockholm,
Sweden) PhD student in Informatics (University
of Göteborg, Sweden)
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• Research method
• Experimental projects
• Concepts
• Prototypes
• User studies
• Workshops Mobile music technology
• Design sketches Aesthetics of situated physical
  interaction

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Picture This! New digital photography
incorporating physical and social settings From
digital photography imitating its analogue
counterparts to adding a new level of meaning and
complexity
www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/photo/
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Picture This! - Context Photography Maria
Håkansson, Sara Ljungblad, Lalya Gaye, Mattias
Rost (FAL, Viktoria)Panajotis Mihalatos (Art
Technology, IT-University in Göteborg) Digital
camera capturing the invisible context of a scene
with sensors (e.g. noise level) and translating
it visually into the resulting still picture, as
you are taking it. Technology Sensor input
(e.g. from a mic) translated in real time it
visual effects on the resulting still picture.
Currently implemented on camera phones, using
built-in sensors and Gapidraw CG platform
www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/photo/context.html
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Picture This! - Context Photography Maria
Håkansson, Sara Ljungblad, Lalya Gaye, Mattias
Rost (FAL, Viktoria)Panajotis Mihalatos (Art
Technology, IT-University in Göteborg) Adding a
new dimension to digital photography by providing
more parameters to play with than the ones
characteristic to analogue photography Parameters
are available resources originating from the
photographers immediate surroundings or from
herself e.g. loud noise or... scream!
www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/photo/context.html
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Picture This! - BashoCam Lalya Gaye (FAL,
Viktoria)Svante Hermansson (Art Technology,
IT-University in Göteborg) People connected
within a virtual social network but in different
locations, developing a narrative with rhythmical
sequences of photographs that juxtapose their
realities. Different narratives for different
paths through network. Sharing of personal
moments that combine the evocative qualities of
photography with the collaborative aspect of
networked performances
www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/photo/bashocam.html
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Mobile Music Music technology meets mobile
computing. Music devices used anywhere, with
awareness of place, in distributed / ad hoc
networks From digital music making and
consumption attached to one location, to
dynamical following and taking advantage of the
users displacements and location
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Mobile Music - Sonic City Lalya Gaye (FAL,
Viktoria Institute), Ramia Mazé (ReForm,
Interactive Institute),Daniel Skoglund
(8Tunnel2), Margot Jacobs (ReForm, Interactive
Institute) Mobile music making with the city as
interface. Creating a real-time personal
soundscape of electronic music by walking through
and interacting with urban environments
Technology a wearable using sensor-based
information to control real-time audio processing
of urban sounds and turn them into music
www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/soniccity/
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Mobile Music - Sonic City Lalya Gaye (FAL,
Viktoria Institute), Ramia Mazé (ReForm,
Interactive Institute),Daniel Skoglund
(8Tunnel2), Margot Jacobs (ReForm, Interactive
Institute) From making electronic music with
stationary designed instruments / softwares to
using everyday urban space and shifting contexts
while in movement Mobility as musical gesture -
paths become scores context gtgtgt musical
structure - music is articulated by ad hoc
bodily interactions Walker improvises to engage
in a duet with everyday settings
www.viktoria.se/fal/projects/soniccity/
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Mobile Music - international workshops Lars Erik
Holmquist (FAL, Viktoria), Atau Tanaka (Sony CSL
Paris)Lalya Gaye (FAL, Viktoria), Frauke
Behrendt (University of Sussex)Drew Hemment
(University of Salford, Futuresonic
PLAN) Identify issues and push field forward as
collaborative effort Workshop sessions with
presentations, in-depth discussions, group
brainstormings, hands-on activities Next one 2-3
March in Brighton, UK!
www.viktoria.se/fal/events/mobilemusic/
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Aesthetics of situated physical
interaction Aesthetics of embodied and
situated interactionPhysical space mediating
aesthetic interactions between user and data
www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/tejp.html
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Design sketches - Tejp Margot Jacobs (ReForm,
Interactive Institute) Lalya Gaye (FAL,
Viktoria Institute) Embodied interactions with
space annotations (locative media). Ex Audio
tags whisper to by-passers leaning towards a wall
-gt space of intimacy in public space
www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/tejp.html
www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/tejp.html
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Design sketches - Bricolage Lalya Gaye (FAL,
Viktoria) Johan Sandsjö (Hidden
Interaction) MacGyver UbiComp The everyday as
hackable resourceInteractions constrained and
taking advantage of physical properties of
existing everyday objects transparency glass,
bounceability of a football, conductivity of
lemon juice, etc
www.tii.se/reform/projects/pps/tejp.html
www.h-interaction.com/bricolage.html
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Other projects Research - Smart-Its Post-hoc
amplification of everyday objects - Total Recall
PDA screen as in-place window to located digital
space - ECAgents Embodied and communicating
agents Sound - Tap-n-Bass live db with remixed
tap-dance shoes - DIY lo-fi audio electronics
workshops
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Tap-n-Bass Lalya Gaye, Alexander Berman, Valerie
Bugmann (Goutte dOr) Live drum-n-bass with
re-mixed tap-dance shoes Sound of wired-up tap
dance shoes is re-mixed in real time into live
drumbass
www.timebend.net/projects/?tap_and_bass
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Attack of the PANTS (Portable Art Noise
Things) David McCallum, Lalya Gaye, Tobias Good
(Fringe) DIY workshop for building portable
audio units with contact microphones and speakers
made out of junk boxes
www.viktoria.se/lalya/projects/pants.html
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THANK YOU!
www.viktoria.se/lalya