24
Aug
2011
15
May
2011
New research student
Jay is a final year student at UNSW doing architectural computing. He is interested in using the Microsoft Kinekt as a part of the architectural workflow, BVN, and by proxy I, will be the ‘client’ on this project so I’m excited to see what he comes up with. There is already a huge background in UI for design, so he is currently doing a lit review of that work. He’s posting his reviews of papers and other useful sources here.
With Flora’s ubimash work there is already a substantial technical basis for this work so there is a great possibility to do some really interesting user-focused work.
9
May
2011
space hacking
As my 200th post I was going to write some stuff about ethics and dolphins, but Wikipedia has already done the lions share of the work so it’s left me feeling rather unnecessary. I was considering this as I came up the escalator at Town Hall station today (my legs are tired from a long walk yesterday so I didn’t feel like walking in). I was on the right and walking up the steps behind all the other karoshi who were doing the same, trudging hurriedly towards our desks. When I got to the top the girl in front of me stopped, did a sharp right turn and headed off to the ticket barriers; this made me stop and presumably made the person behind me stop. This sort of blockage never really stops anything, but acts more as a constriction. This sort of constriction seems to slow down the flow of people through the station, which reduces the station’s efficiency. (If you assume that the job of a train station is it’s obvious one, i.e. to move people about quickly, get them from where they are to where they want to be by making the journey from their entry point to exit point as time-short/distance-short as possible.)
12
Apr
2011
DS6 Crit notes
Last week I was invited to help out with some crits at Oxford Brookes for DS6 by Toby Shew. I took some notes, so I thought I’d share them here. I must apologise to the last few students as they didn’t get notes because my battery ran out.
As always, it was lovely to be back on home turf, and I hope that these scrawlings are useful.
31
Mar
2011
SG2011
There is a lot of activity here in Copenhagen, I’ll update more about it soon when I’m a little less frazzled, but I think that this might well be the moment when the change in attitude towards real data that seems to have been building momentum in the industry actually forms into a ‘thing’!