I put my slides from my recent CSCW 2008 talk up on slideshare (thanks Joe McCarthy for *encouraging* us…) here. You can also see my slides from my Ubicomp 2008 presentation back in September. Hope you enjoy the slides… They’re not quite as good without me gesticulating wildly during the whole thing.

Gestural Input. Tasty tasty gestural input. I am not so impressed with the actual gestural stuff as I am with the multiple large displays and the ease with which a user can move windows and views between each display. The tabletop display becomes a potential valuable work area (much less fatiguing to a person to [...]

CSCW MVP - “Best Talk (I saw)” - Emilee Reader (U Michigan)
I can’t very well give awards to talks I didn’t see. So I won’t say it was the very best talk at CSCW 2008. But this talk was great — it held my attention, taught me some things, and showed (I’m convinced of this [...]

CSCW MVP - “Best Question Asker” - Eric Baumer (UC Irvine)

CSCW MVP - “Best Dressed” - Lucian Leahu (Cornell)

CSCW MVPs… I do this at all the conferences I go to, but privately. But let’s go public. So over the next days, I’ll be posting my MVPs.

George: Hey Barak! Congrats I wanted to invite you over to have a chat about the transition.
Barak: I’ll bring my tape measure!