Mashups are all about presenting information from various sources in an integrated Web application. While early experiments with multimedia-multiweb application integration were done by savvy programmers who would effectively decode as-yet-unpublished APIs for applications such as Google Maps, currently there is a wide range of software platforms for the development of mashups, and building a mashup is becoming increasingly easy. In this hands-on tutorial, experts from Google and Yahoo! Will introduce their mashup development technologies; participants will then build mashups on the spot. The workshop will run on 27-28 July 2009 at Macquarie University; registration information is available at: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/workshops/mashups09.

This workshop will make a contribution towards exploring and better understanding the opportunities and challenges provided by tools, interfaces, methods and practices of social and mobile technology that enable participation and engagement. It will bring together a group of academics and practitioners from a diverse range of disciplines such as computing and engineering, social sciences, digital media and human-computerinteraction to critically examine a range of applications of social and mobile technology, such as social networking, mobile interaction, wikis (eg., futuremelbourne.com.au), twitter, blogging, virtual worlds (eg, hub2.org), and their impact to foster community activism, civic engagement and cultural citizenship. The workshop will be held over two days, on Mon 13th and Tue 14th July 2009, at the Creative Industries Precinct of Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, and will include a keynote presentation by Adam Greenfield, author of 'Everyware' and Head of Design Direction for User Interface and Services at Nokia in Helsinki on Tuesday 14 July 2009. Registration information is available here: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/2943

The Human Communication Science Network Perception and Action Priority Area invites students and researchers interested in developing skills and knowledge in the use of EEG and MEG techniques to participate in a two-day workshop to be held at the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th August 2009. Programmed to introduce both techniques to researchers, the workshop will present sessions on the principles behind each technique, how to design experiments using the techniques, and how to analyse and interpret data gathered with each technique. There will be opportunities to discuss with panels of experts plans for experiments, particularly with a view to helping researchers new to each of the techniques design research projects likely to usefully answer their questions of interest. The keynote presentation will be given by Associate Professor Paul Corballis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Paul's primary research interests are in the cognitive neuroscience of human visual perception and attention. There will also be presentations by Dr Blake Johnson and Dr Mark Williams from the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS), Macquarie University. Find more information here: http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/hcsnetevents/2009/eegmeg09.