We present Evento 360 (URL: http://evento360.info), an online interactive social event browser, which allows the user to explore events detected within a web-scale multimedia corpus. The system addresses five key aspects of social multimedia event detection and summarization: multimodality, scale, diversity of representations, noise of multimedia items, and missing metadata. The detection algorithm uses unsupervised clustering approach that exploits temporal, spatial and textual metadata. For each detected event cluster, to choose the best subset of photos that meet both relevance and diversity criteria, the system uses hierarchical clustering that exploits both visual and audio information. Evento 360's user interface provides a search feature that is not limited to a certain set of events, but rather can handle an arbitrary event query. It allows the user to retrieve and explore relevant events. The system scales well and is effective in producing high-quality summaries of the detected events.

EnergyBugs are energy harvesting wearables with features that invite children to move their bodies to generate tiny, yet usable amounts of electricity. EnergyBugs not only convert children's kinetic energy into usable electrical energy, but also let children power a specially designed LED lamp with the energy the children have personally harvested. EnergyBugs therefore turn the electrical energy into a tangible object that children can manipulate and think with. Two studies of EnergyBugs with 34 elementary school children have revealed that children carefully observed and negotiated the use of personally harvested energy with their classmates, as well as developed emotional connections to energy. In particular, moving their own bodies to generate energy led the children to more actively ask questions about energy from new perspectives. We report our iterative design process and discuss the implications of our results for HCI.