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I flirted with the notion for a long time. I really did. I mean, who wouldn’t want to be an academic right? You make up your own schedule, you travel a lot and perhaps most importantly, your job is just thinking of stuff. Well that, no pun intended, is
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GECHO (Global Echo) is an early stage application with Julian Simpson and Prof. Aleks Pluskowski that helps archeologists work with each other on the material record of mankind. Archeologists all across the world email each other databases, which we believe to be an inefficient, error-prone and slow way to work.
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I like the Amish. Most people from Ohio, such as myself do as well. So I like to think I have more than a passing familiarity with them. You would see them around being driven in their white, chauffeured vans, or you go to Amish country for a day trip
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Interaction design of the century you ask? The iPhone? Nope. Square payment thingamajob? Not even close. Gmail? Closer. The Undo Send feature in Gmail? Spot on. In a carpet bombing of features and half hearted engineering experiments, Gmail, completely accidentally if you ask me, stumbled upon one of the most
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The one thing either an 80 or 15 year old can do with a phone is dial a number and listen – thus we’ve developed a phone and internet monument infrastructure gives places phone numbers where anyone can just call up the place they’re at and have someone (as
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This is some of the documentation taken by Rolf Wiesemes and I 16 Dec 2010 on our field research in Slovenia. [slickr-flickr type=”gallery” search=”sets” set=”72157625620790455″ items=”20″ descriptions=”on” use_key=”y”]
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I’ve recently started hating post-it notes. I know, I know, they’re super handy, cute and come in an array of colours, shapes and sizes and God knows what we would do without them in the modern world. I mean, next thing you know I’m going to say
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Ooof. Well its all over and Sara, Helena, Nikola, Oleg and Josip did me proud. On top of managing to deal with an extremely hard brief (inventing a currency for instance) and not being allowed to use a slideshow for their final presenation, they really did it. The final presentation
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Day 6 -7 Everyone was really hammering it down and getting down to work. They started getting down to building the mobile and the stationary joke exchange centre and I was really pleased to see that the students started working on a website to trade jokes, thus completing the system
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Day 3 – Place #1 Place #1 was where things were supposed to be happening after establishing Home for the groups. Place #1 is somewhere the groups could walk to and they were to meet someone there and initiate some sort of exchange. The groups went out into Maribor and learned
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So they’ve begun. My students, Oleg, Sara, Helena, Nikola and Josip are now taking over the city of Maribor and learning the hard way that places, people and interactions don’t always come together very easily. Here’s what they were dealing with Day 1 – Home There just may
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Opa! My weird obsession with going to the CHI conference is finally being realised. I’m going to be presenting the work done so far and the concepts and issues with the Spomenik project with Dave Kirk of the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham University. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/