Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Nottingham have 12 PHD studentships going.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/SCI1341

Good opportunity to work with some of the best in the ubicomp research bussiness.


Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Oh my god this could be the greatst thing ever


This is just amazing you can design your board, emulate it, get the circuit right and get it made. Stuning use of web. 

http://123d.circuits.io 

Monday, November 25, 2013

Symbolic Interactionism

Theory of the day:Herbert Blumer:Symbolic Interactionism



  • Human beings act towards things on the basis of the meanings that these things have for them
  • The meaning of such things is derived from, and arises out of, the social interaction that one has with one’s fellows
  • These meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretive process used by the person in dealing with the thing he/she/it encounters. 
You can tell I'm reviewing all the ar-chi-tecture papers. 

Space and Interaction workshop accepted for CHI2013

Cool 


We are happy to inform you that your workshop

 150 - Interaction and the Production of Space: from Architecture to Navigation

has been accepted to CHI 2014 Workshops.

Congratulations, we're delighted to have you as part of our workshops program. We had 68 submissions this year, many of which received very good reviews. Our final acceptance rate was 49%.

3D printing building

Just looking at something else came across this revolution in Architecture - the kind of concreate you can use to do 3D printing of buildings. 

I Would like to look at the paper - how do they handle reinforcement bars ( aka rebars ) ? Could this handle agrigate ?  I've seen glass fiber in concreate with might be a rebar replacement. 




Makes you wonder if you can pre-print building as a base on Mars. 

This is a good example of the printer


There is a great deal of nivity about building - for example you don't generally have space around a site to put the printer frame down but does show a solution to the re-bar problem. Plus a good NASA base example! Architects look out! 

MIT are way ahread.  http://web.media.mit.edu/~neri/site/