the end of EGRET

Now we're in the closing stages, and submitting our final reports to JISC this week. It seemed like the perfect moment to celebrate the end of a successful project - with some Chelsea buns, the signature cake for the project. They didn't last long.


Many thanks to the entire project team at CARET - past and present - for all their hard work, and also to JISC and the support team, John Norman for directing our efforts, and the creators of Talks.cam.

Academic Networking Challenges

Read our latest report on the challenges of academic networking when recommending events, commenting on events, and noting attendance at events is involved.

The data structures of Talks.cam

As part of EGRET, and looking forward to future work involving talks and events, we've documented the data structures of Talks.cam so that others can understand how the system works.

You can read this functional description here.

Who uses Talks.cam anyway?

If you've ever wondered who uses Talks.cam, and why they find it valuable, we've got the answer! Our vignettes study gives a brief sample of some of our major types of users and use-cases.

HCI 2009

EGRET and Talks.cam are excited to have been invited to present at the HCI 2009 conference Open House on 2nd September 2009. This is the 23rd British Computer Society conference on Human-Computer Interaction, and a very prestigious event. We're lucky to be there, and looking forward to meeting lots of new people (and potential Talks.cam users!).

As the conference site says:

The 23rd BCS conference on Human Computer Interaction celebrates the people who use technology, the people who create new technologies, and the relationship between them. A centrepiece of the conference will be an Open House Festival involving the many Cambridge laboratories and startup companies now creating new displays, devices, games, communications and ubiquitous computing technologies. New developments in HCI depend on technology, and interchange between the communities will offer influence in both directions.