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Jennifer Sheridan talked about the pooch.

The pooch/(now bigdog interactive) are into extreme prototyping, one day minimal time and cost. They also like to inhabit the social space of the festival, this bring with it constraints and challenges, of making their products portable, selfpowered and able to withstand the harsh environment (portability,heat, noise).
They make adult sized swings as interfaces for their works, and have a deep interest in re)search, having a background in interaction and theatre studies.
They describe their work as digital live art, the intersection of live art, computing and hci. Interested in non-talk based uses of technology as embodies in highly portable systems for example the uPoi, a ball on a string that has a multi input accelerometer built into it. This influences layered sound and visuals
A major concern of theirs is the women are abandoning engineering and technology, they are not making outside of fashion design. The other concern is that kids don’t know about working/programming the the smaller, cheaper, ubiquitous computers that are in everything. What options for computing and kids is there?