27
Sep
2008
“Oh, is that it? I was expecting something really flashy”
My new laptop is finally here, and it’s exactly what I wanted, it’s made of tanks, it’s pretty light, and it’s really boring! so somewhere in me, the littel kid is slightly upset that it isn’t increadably ‘cool’, but what’s really cool is beiang about to work for 3 hours in the bright sunshine in the brisbane botanic gardens, and then watch a film on my flight home. It’s great to be able to work in cafe’s, there is, in some sort of perverse way, less distraction in cafes than there is in my office. I’d imagine that it’s something to do with my ADHD brain that needs some white noise to take the edge off my distractability. Now I can write stuff on my own time, I’ll put up some stuff about what I’m working on at the moment over the next few days.
12
Jul
2008
gc user is still alive
GC user now has 1300 users, and the cheapo hosting that it was on before just doesn’t cut it any more.
Jalal is in the process of transferring gcuser from the old clunky DNN windows server to a new sparkly sever, and content management system.
The data is all safe, its all very tedious back end stuff, and the end user experience should be much the same, probaby just a different colour.
2
Jun
2008
multitouch train platform
here’s a little flick through a sequence of how a multi touch floor could work in a train station to make the experience “well betta’ ”
There have been plenty of examples of people using multi touch displays for useful and interesting things, but the idea behind this totally ignores the practical things like the cost element of having hundreds of beamers and a server farm to rival Google, and just goes for the hope that something cool might come from the thought experiment (such is the nature of architectural education)
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31
Mar
2008
the experiment continues
upon getting stuck into any seemingly simple problem, more complicated things always seem to arise.
I think I’ll get something at least a little bit useful out of this soon though.
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19
Mar
2008
the experiment
In order to make any sort of meaningful map or information visualisation, I think you need a lot of data, especially when it is related to the unpredictable nature of humans.
Manually capturing that much information is for people with more time and patience than me.
I’d like to start out by pointing out two things. I have no idea where this will lead to, and that there is an ulterior educational motive at work – I don’t know how to do any of this so I thought I’d get down to it and learn.
I’d like to measure how long it takes for people in a fairly uninteresting area of street to pass from one side of the cameras frame to the other, and then make subtle changes to the environment to see if this affected their behavior.
Changes like lines marking territory, the addition of mirrors, blasts of hot air etc. might or might not affect the behavior of the people passing. Read the rest of this entry »