Di8it will be presenting a research paper at the iEnter - Workshop on Interactive Audiovisual Entertainment next 28th and 29th of February 2008 in Barcelona. iEnter is an event designed as a forum for the analysis of interactive entertainment. The main aim is to promote progress in the comprehension of the communicational relations that are established for purposes of entertainment by the different participants in audiovisual systems (the interactors, the machine, the application and the content).

Use8 – the Brighton based User Experience Society launched its first event called “Beyond the screen” last Friday 30th of November to explore how people experience Interactive Outdoor Technologies. “Beyond the screen” was part of the Brighton Digital Festival. The festival, runned throughout November and offered new and exciting opportunities for artists, designers and technologists to examine their converging worlds by collaborating, sharing and showcasing their talent. Our event was a success with over 80 people – students, academics and professionals – sharing knowledge. Speakers from leading digital companies presented their current research, technology and case studies on how to engage users in an outdoor interactive campaign, the role that external environment plays in creating user experience, and relative marketing implications. The Society has been founded by di8it with the collaboration of Beepurple – the business services from the University of Brighton. Use8 aims are to promote user experience design and to bring together people who are interested in this discipline. For further information please visit www.use8.net

Di8it was invited to present the company in the Reality Cheque event - as part of the celebrations for National Enterprise Week 2007- hold last 14th of November 2007 at Cockroft building at the University of Brighton. 6 successful entrepreneurs presented their companies explaining their experiences in setting up a business. All the speakers were graduates from the University of Brighton running business in the retail, fashion, e-commerce, digital media and events management sectors.

Di8it is speaking and exhibiting at the Collaboration Nation event next 31st of March 2010. Di8it will be presenting the results of the feasibility study: “Deskslice – moving your desk into the Cloud”. Di8it’s project DeskSlice aims to support Voluntary and Community Organisations (VCOs) working in the Third Sector providing an intuitive virtual desktop that interfaces an enterprise cloud computing platform - embedding a “web oriented” model for sharing into the centre of the desktop experience. Collaboration Nation: Inspiring Innovations for a Digital Britain is a new and inspiring event showcasing innovative technology projects and companies - winners of the Technology Strategy Board's Digital Britain feasibility study competition - bringing them together with open innovators and the funding community to collaborate and bring new ideas to market. The Collaboration Nation event concept brings together in one place the people behind the winning projects from the Technology Strategy Board's Digital Britain feasibility study funding competition, focused on the specific technology areas of: Access to public services and public services data, enabling technologies for the internet, online application and services, and the deployment and operation of digital infrastructure.

On the 7th of March di8it and use8 will host "Anywhere; Anytime" an event that will explore user experience aspects of delivering applications and services to the mobile phone platform. The event will focus on themes of marketing, content provision, application development and service delivery and will be focused to business, professionals and students. Confirmed speakers from leading mobile phone companies will present their experience, research projects or use cases in these areas.Expected to speaker are David Tisserand: Head of Orange Lab, James Chaytor: Principal of Sprung Studios, Ron bird an independent IT architect and steve O'Connor, lead of Consumer Experience practice at IDEO. If you would like to get further information or register for this event  please visit www.use8.net

Di8it has partnered with Beepurple – the business services of the University of Brighton – to launch a Brighton based User Experience Society.   The Use8 society aims to bring together students, professionals, academics and industry that are interested in the User Experience design discipline. This relatively new field has its root in the HCI discipline but it draws from a wide range of other disciplines that include: cognitive psychology, behavioral science, anthropological studies, ergonomics, product design, psychology and marketing. Almost any discipline, that must consider the user or human per¬spective, is applicable. The society establishes a rich knowledge commons through organising events that bridges the gaps between these communities and disciplines. Creating opportunities for the exchange of ideas, collaboration and innovation is what use8 is all about.

Next 23rd of May Di8it and Use8- The User Experience Society presents: Broadband TV 2.0 Broadband TV 2.0 will explore this new medium of delivery and the user experience considerations for designing new digital TV services for users. Speaking: CADinteractive - "BT Vision Service. A case study" Open TV - "Evolving the user interface for Television" Pushbutton - "Designing the ESPN experience" Panel: "The future of broadband TV 3.0" Brighton University Brightcove Brunel University Global Digital Broadcast TV The event is free! Get more information and book your place now at www.use8.net See you there!

  Next 29th of August at 5.30 pm di8it and Use8 - The User Experience Society present "PLAY" PLAY will go beyond simple usability issues exploring different dimensions of User Experience that make games enjojable. Speaking:  - Serco Games Research"Playability and enjoyment of game development" - Blast! Entertainment "UX Video Games Design for the young audience" - BlackRock Studio "PURE and the demands of a mass-market audience"   Open panel discussion: University of Sussex, Portsmouth University, Blast Theory, Relentless    Showcases: - Locomatrix: Locomatrix, the platform that let you play games using GPS on your mobile phone, aims to redesign the mobile games industry by making it possible to play games on screen by moving around in real-life. - Pure: Developed by Black Rock Studio, Disney Interactive Studios' award-winning development studio in Brighton, England, Pure takes off-road racing to a new level. - C-shock: Developed by Black Rock Studio, Disney Interactive Studios' award-winning development studio in Brighton, England, Pure takes off-road racing to a new level. Use8 events are informal and tend to create an open atmosphere conducive to discussion and networking. A good mix of creative businesses, professionals and students are expected to attend. You can get more information and book your place now at www.use8.net    

Last 19 of November Di8it took part in the Reality Cheque event organised by Beepurple – the University of Brighton Entrepreneur Network – as part of the National Enterprise Week. Di8it presented the company, our vision and recent activity along with other 3 Brighton based companies: Ophelia Fancy, Huitalk and Julie Angel.

Use8 – The User Experience Society is supporting the University of Brighton’s “Connecting Innovation” event that will take place next 26th of March in Brighton, UK. Today creativity and innovation have become the driving forces of our economy and society. Innovation can be considered as the creative output of an ongoing process that develops and applies new knowledge to work, life, product and services. A new field is emerging for innovation where economic, technological, social and cultural trends move more closely. This new field is not located in distinct domains but is situated at the intersection and crossover where different knowledge domains, institutions and people connect and engage. Connecting Innovation is an event that will explore this new field of innovation investigating the interplay between diverse disciplines and exploring new innovation strategies for the knowledge based society. What are the advantages of an open approach to innovation? Why are multidisciplinary team more effective? What role does culture play in innovation? These are some of the topic that Connecting Innovation will explore. Confirmed speakers include: Charles Leadbeater, a leading authority on innovation and creativity and the author of “We-think: the power of mass creativity”, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning. Ken Thompson, an expert practitioner in the area of swarming, virtual enterprise networks, virtual professional communities and virtual teams and has published two landmark books: “Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Best Designs” and “The Networked Enterprise: Competing for the future through Virtual Enterprise Networks” Visit an exhibition of local artists, companies and organisations supporting the creative and digital industries