Cheer for your favorite team during World Cup 2010

World Cupinion, by University of Duisburg-Essen and Technische Universität Berlin, is an application which lets soccer fans share their reaction about different moments and events of a soccer match during Soccer World Cup 2010.
Through an interface users can partake in supporting their favorite team and share their opinions with other fans.Also the opinions are pushed to Facebook and Twiitter.
The application is available for Android phones and iPhone as well the PC.

AVI 2010 conference

That was the first time for me attending AVI (Advance Visualization Interface) conference. I should say that it was a great experience. Here is also couple of papers from the conference which I found very interesting

• 3-D Interaction with a Large Wall Display using Transparent Markers
  Akito Hyakutake, Koichiro Ozaki, Kris Makoto Kitani, Hideki Koike University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• iChase: Supporting Exploration and Awareness of Editing Activities on Wikipedia
  Nathalie Henry Riche*, Bongshin Lee*, Fanny Chevalier° *Microsoft Research, USA, °Microsoft-INRIA joint center, Université Paris Sud, France
• Implied Dynamics in Information Visualization
  Caroline Ziemkiewicz, Robert Kosara, UNC Charlotte, USA
• PAC-PAC: Pinching Gesture Recognition for Tabletop Entertainment System
  Kentaro Fukuchi*, Toshiki Sato°, Haruko Mamiya°, Hideki Koike° ,*Meiji University, Japan, °The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• Structured Laser Pointer: Enabling Wrist-Rolling Movements as a New Interactive Dimension
  Yongqiang Qin,Yuanchun Shi, Hao Jiang, Chun Yu, Tsinghua University, China
• Jelly: A Multi-Device Design Environment for Managing Consistency Across Devices
  Jan Meskens, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Belgium