<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.289062); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.222656); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.222656); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; "><b>distance lab </b><span style="color: rgb(148, 40, 9); "><b>News Digest</b></span><b> </b></span><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; min-height: 18px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Distance Lab creates tech innovations for Glonet at</b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#19"><b>FutureEverything</b></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Glonet is a unique one-day distributed conference involving venues and audiences in five cities across the world: Sendai, Istanbul, São Paolo, Vancouver, and Manchester. Distance Lab unveiled a new project, <a href="http://www.distancelab.org/projects/talking-boxes/">Talking Boxes</a>, developed in association with FutureEverything, that aims to support informal social interaction and mingling over a distance between the connected locations. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Stefan Agamanolis makes presentation in </b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#18"><b>Electrosmog</b></a><b>festival</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Distance Lab's Chief Executive and Research Director, <b>Stefan Agamanolis,</b>delivered a presentation to the Electrosmog International Festival for Sustainable Immobility, which took place in De Balle in Amsterdam, involving speakers from all around the world. The conference explored the theme of sustainable immobility in terms of lifestyle choices that celebrate deepening connections to local culture, while strengthening ties to more distant locations through use of new technologies. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Andrea Taylor presents research to international</b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#17"><b>Telehealth</b></a><b> conferences</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Senior Research Associate,<b> Andrea Taylor,</b>presented research on the design of emergency medical alert pendants at e-Telemed 2010, the Second International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, held this year in St. Maarten in the Netherland Antilles. This was the second year that she has represented Distance Lab with a full paper accepted to this conference.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Mutsugoto featured at </b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#16"><b>Science Gallery</b></a><b> in Dublin</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Distance Lab's <a href="http://www.distancelab.org/projects/mutsugoto/">Mutsugoto</a> project was featured at the Science Gallery in Dublin in an exhibition entitled Love Lab in February this year. As part of the exhibition, a connection was made with a Mutsugoto installation at <b>Inspace</b> in Edinburgh for use by real long distance couples between the two cities. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Costas Bissas speaks at</b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#15"><b>Designing for Immobility</b></a><b>conference Amsterdam</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Distance Lab Research Associate, <b>Costas Bissas</b>, made a presentation for the Designing for Immobility conference held in Amsterdam. The world-wide mobility explosion is an enormous challenge for designers, and the conference addressed the issue that current forms of continuous mobility are no longer ecologically sustainable. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Distance Lab exhibits at </b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#14"><b>Digital Lounge</b></a><b> event in Edinburgh</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Distance Lab exhibited a number of its projects at an event mounted by the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network and held at Inspace in Edinburgh. The event also featured products from Pufferfish and other innovative businesses in which knowledge transfer between academia and industry play an important role.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); "><b>Stefan Agamanolis wins "Most Inspirational Speaker" award at </b><a href="http://www.distancelab.org/news/#11"><b>eComm Europe 2009</b></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(7, 2, 1); ">Distance Lab's Chief Executive and Research Director, <b>Stefan Agamanolis</b>, won the audience award for "Most Inspirational Speaker" at the world's leading-edge telecom, mobile and Internet communications event eComm. 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