From June 4th to June 11th some friends and I have been canooing in Arvika, Sweden.

The week after we visited norway. The following lines describe our tour:

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Day 1: We took out flight from Graz to Vienna, and Vienna to Oslo, then the train from Oslo to Arvika in Sweden.

Day 2- 7: Glaskogen Canoeing Tour.

Day 8: Train from Arvika back to Oslo and then again traveld by air from Oslo to Stavanger in Norway.

Day 9: Sightseeing & Oil museum in Stavanger.

Day 10: We took the ferry from Stavanger to Tau, with the Bus to the starting point for a hike to the famous Prekeistolen.

Day 11: With rented car to Kjerag to see the famous boulder called “Kjerag Bolten”.

Day 12: By car from Stavanger to Bergen and finally moved on to Voss – where the extreme sport’s festival takes place annually.

Day 13: Starting with the bus to go to the starting point for a boat trip through the Nærøyfjord, an arm of the Sognefjord – Norway’s longest and deepest fjord – to Gudvangen, back from Flam to Myrdal with the Flåm Valley and back again to Voss by train and bus.

Day 14: Driving with the rented car from Voss to Lillehammer – thereby drove through europe’s longest tunnel (25km) – to see the famous ski jumping ramp.

Day 15: Back from Oslo to Vienna and then the rainy Graz!

If you would like to see more pictures please talk to me personally, we have also a protected  picasa album that is online too.

it has been a week since we came home from our probably last skitour for this season.

Therefore I would like to share some impression from South Tyrol:

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User Experience & Interaction Design are two of the most important issues when facing the current use of our World Wide Web. Though, most scientists and developers forget, that the Semantic Web and therefore also the Internet-Data’s Understanding is strongly connected with UE.

Within my future thoughts and projects I will be approaching the Semantic Web from more of a Interaction-Design or respectively user-focussed perspective. So obviously there are many interesting viewpoints to be taken into account when dealin with this wide-ranging issue.

The first question I stated was what are the different ways to look at this topic; here is a short answer to it:

Notes:

To begin with, I would like to use this post to note down a very incomplete listof professionals, conferences, symposia and institutes (which I may update from time to time), that are besides the obwvious ones, dealing with this topic somehow:

• iSchools iConference
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) – Sympoisum on Creative Intelligent Systems
• UC Berkeley School of Information
• Semantic Web User Interaction (SWUI)
• InfoVis C. – A data code compute resource
• A Timeline Visualization of Information History
• Information Aesthetics – Where form follows data – Blog
• DataVisualization.ch – Blog
• many many more

Catchphrases, Quotes & other thoughts:

concept of … highly adaptable … up-scaling views …

“Students shall choose projects with high societal payoffs, researchers have to employ the updated science 2.0 strategies, developers have to focus on genuine user needs”

Eventually, one of our best hopes for the future is that a large and connected group of people can change the world!”

Concept: Let us think of what should be achieved by 2020 and do something about it!

This weekend we have been to the Small Bösenstein (2395m) within the Niedere Tauern. Though there is not much snow these days in Styria, is was a nice skitouring day. Let me share some impressions with you:

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Last weekend – til tuesday – we have been to the Weissee Glacier World for skiing. We stayed at the Rudolfshut there, a former Alpenverein hut, which is now a very nice hotel with sauna, indoor swimming pool and much more. Because of the reason that there was not much snow, we couldnot vary a lot with the skitours there, but nevertheless it was a wodnerful time and I would like to share osme impressions:

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The last three days I spend some time with friends in OSP (near Koper in Slovenia). The days were wonderful short holidays and therefore I would like to share some impressions with you from there:

As recently mentioned, we’ve been to Switzerland for skitouring the last days. So, last weekend, we made our first 4000-high-Skitour, namely to the Allalinhorn (4027m) within the Mischabelgroup (next to Saas Fee).

Some impressions from this “for me – new world”:

I will be on holidays for the next 8 days.

Therefore I just wanted to post some of our last Austrian snowy skitour impressions of the last weeks:

On March, 14th, we’ve been on a skitour to the Styrian Pletzen (2345m, Seckauer Tauern):

On March, 8th we have been on a skitour to the Styrian Schüttkogel (2049m, Rottenmanner Tauern):

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Upcoming impressions will be of skiing in Saas Fee - our target for the next week.

Meanwhile, have some nice skiing days in Austria too!

As in the last winter – we had much new snow in Austria the last weeks and therefore I would like to share some more impressions from our latest skitours:

In the beginning of february there has been quite much new snow even in the “Grazer Bergland”, so we spontaneously decided to go to the Schoeckl (1445m) summit on a weekday (Febr. 4th):

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Right on the following weekend we have been to the Eisenerzer Wildfeld (2043m).

And finally on the last saturday we went to the Zirbitzkogel (2396m):

And last but not least one impression from our last skitour to the small but nice Styrian Mugel (1630m) on February 15th: