<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Perhaps of interest.<br><br>Sent from a mobile phone. Please excuse my brevity.</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Martin Hendry <<a href="mailto:martin.hendry@glasgow.ac.uk">martin.hendry@glasgow.ac.uk</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 5 December 2011 07:32:33 GMT<br><b>To:</b> Martin Hendry <<a href="mailto:Martin.Hendry@glasgow.ac.uk">Martin.Hendry@glasgow.ac.uk</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Glasgow Cafe Scientifique: TONIGHT, Monday December 5th at 7pm</b><br><br></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Hi all</span><br><span></span><br><span>A wee reminder that our 2011-12 series of Glasgow Cafe Scientifique meetings continues TONIGHT, Monday December 5th at 7pm in the Tron Theatre.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Our speaker tonight will be Dan Fitton of the University of Central Lancashire, on "Exploring the world's most advanced interaction device: the WiiMote".</span><br><span></span><br><span>"The humble WiiMote will celebrate its sixth birthday this year and, after some early teething troubles as a hand-held projectile, has been responsible for turning out-of-date game-console technology into an innovating gaming platform popular with young and old alike. This talk will explore the innovative design of the WiiMote, from the way it is used to the technology inside."</span><br><span></span><br><span>Dr Dan Fitton is a lecturer in computing and researcher in the area of Child-Computer Interaction within the CHiCi group (<a href="http://www.chici.org">www.chici.org</a>), his focus is the creation and evaluation of novel ‘away from the desktop’</span><br><span>interactive technologies.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Space at the Victorian bar in the Tron is limited, so please be early to make sure you get a seat!</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Can I also remind you that we will not meet in January 2012? Our CafeSci programme will resume on *February 6th 2012* when Professor Wade Allison of Oxford University will talk about "Radiation and Reason - a clear and positive scientific account of the effect of radiation on life."</span><br><span></span><br><span>See <a href="http://www.cafescientique.org">www.cafescientique.org</a> for more details</span><br><span></span><br><span>Hope to see you at the Tron tonight!</span><br><span></span><br><span>Martin, Kevin and Mandy.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>Prof Martin A. Hendry <a href="mailto:FRSEmartin.hendry@glasgow.ac.uk">FRSEmartin.hendry@glasgow.ac.uk</a></span><br><span>SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy Tel: 0141 330 5685</span><br><span>Room 607, Kelvin Building skype: martin_astro2003</span><br><span>University of Glasgow twitter: @martin_astro</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/martin">www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/martin</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCosmicexplorer">www.youtube.com/user/TheCosmicexplorer</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio,</span><br><span>than are dreamt of in your philosophy."</span><br><span></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>