(5) I'm a Cyborg's Pet - Wattpad
I know I should be working on CHI Rebuttals.
Friday, November 20, 2015
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
IndoorAtlas
I quite like the idea, it's one of those practice vs theory issues.
IndoorAtlas from IndoorAtlas on Vimeo.
IndoorAtlas from IndoorAtlas on Vimeo.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Strategy Strategy Strategy
Due to a number of medical problems back home I haven't been able to satisfy my experiment schedule.
More specifically I don't think I will get to the Open University labs before August. This means I won't be able to do my experiment in time for the CHI2016 deadline. It's a bit of a bummer.
In the evening I was watching an episode of "Halt and catch Fire" TV series about programmers. I realised that the fundamental difference between computing research and HCI research is that computing research can be done at all hours. You can work late into the night. Given that HCI research generally requires people this is not an option. With computing research all you really need is a computer and a supply of coffee. I think it also appeals to the heroic 'CodeWarrior' in me.
I've also been looking at CUDA recently (GPU programming - don't ask me why I like the notion of making something running 100 times faster ). It reminds me of how far the world of algorithums is from the world of HCI. Which is weird- I mean HCI needs the 'infinitly fast machine' so fast operation is vitatal so yo would think algorithums would abound but no.
More specifically I don't think I will get to the Open University labs before August. This means I won't be able to do my experiment in time for the CHI2016 deadline. It's a bit of a bummer.
In the evening I was watching an episode of "Halt and catch Fire" TV series about programmers. I realised that the fundamental difference between computing research and HCI research is that computing research can be done at all hours. You can work late into the night. Given that HCI research generally requires people this is not an option. With computing research all you really need is a computer and a supply of coffee. I think it also appeals to the heroic 'CodeWarrior' in me.
I've also been looking at CUDA recently (GPU programming - don't ask me why I like the notion of making something running 100 times faster ). It reminds me of how far the world of algorithums is from the world of HCI. Which is weird- I mean HCI needs the 'infinitly fast machine' so fast operation is vitatal so yo would think algorithums would abound but no.
Monday, July 20, 2015
Watch MartinTraunmueller.'s Vine, "@sheepdalton on the usage of #3Dscanning to create 3D #isovosts #sss10"
Watch MartinTraunmueller.'s Vine, "@sheepdalton on the usage of #3Dscanning to create 3D #isovosts #sss10"
This was captured from one of my talks at the space syntax next conference. Looks pretty futureistic the kinds of things Computer science lecturers should be doing.
This was captured from one of my talks at the space syntax next conference. Looks pretty futureistic the kinds of things Computer science lecturers should be doing.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Authors@Google: Eric Ries "The Lean Startup"
This is quite good I'm deep into lean and this sells it quite well.
Monday, July 6, 2015
Sit? Stand? Move! | Workplace Blog | Spacelab
Sit? Stand? Move! | Workplace Blog | Spacelab: As you are reading this, you are probably sitting. So am I, writing this blog at the moment. Sitting is what most people do most of the time during their day, either at work, at home, or in other places. While there is nothing wrong with the activity of sitting per se, it is the duration of sitting that raises concerns. Prolonged periods of sitting, also called ‘sedentary’ behaviours or lifestyles, and physical inactivity in general, have been identified as a serious health risk by researchers. The notion that ‘sitting is the new smoking‘ has made the rounds, popping up at workplace conferences, in press articles and social media alike, as for instance argued in the Harvard Business Review and of course there are a couple ofTED talks on the subject matter, too.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions. - PubMed - NCBI
Thinking too much: introspection can reduce the quality of preferences and decisions. - PubMed - NCBI: nces for different brands of strawberry jams were compared with experts' ratings of the jams. Students who analyzed why they felt the way they did agreed less with the experts than students who did not. In Study 2, college students' preferences for college courses were compared with expert opinion. Some students were asked to analyze reasons; others were asked to evaluate all attributes of all courses. Both kinds of introspection caused people to make choices that, compared with control subjects', corresponded less with expert opinion. Analyzing reasons can focus people's attention on nonoptimal criteria, causing them to base their subsequent choices on these criteria. Evaluating multiple attributes can moderate people's judgments, causing them to discriminate less between the different alternatives.
The New Statistics: Confidence Intervals, NHST, and p Values (Workshop P...
I still can't belive that statistics changes. This is about a new post p value approach.
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties | TED Talk | TED.com
Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties | TED Talk | TED.com
Actually a good talk about recovering subtle information ( in this case in pixels)
Actually a good talk about recovering subtle information ( in this case in pixels)
Friday, June 19, 2015
Research Blog: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
Lovely blog post from Google. I never trust machine learning because you never know what they've actually learnt. Personally I've always thought that visualising machine learning would be a good way of trying to understand what machine learning is doing. Looks like some people of Google have done a great job. Not only that it looks lovely.
Research Blog: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks: Why is this important? Well, we train networks by simply showing them many examples of what we want them to learn, hoping they extract the essence of the matter at hand (e.g., a fork needs a handle and 2-4 tines), and learn to ignore what doesn’t matter (a fork can be any shape, size, color or orientation). But how do you check that the network has correctly learned the right features? It can help to visualize the network’s representation of a fork.
Indeed, in some cases, this reveals that the neural net isn’t quite looking for the thing we thought it was. For example, here’s what one neural net we designed thought dumbbells looked like:
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Advanced Chess | Smarter Than You Think
Excerpt | Smarter Than You Think
This is a fantastic example of what happens when humans and machines work together. I have said on numerous occasions that there are two essential streams of thought in computing. The first thinks of computers as replacing human beings. This was very well articulated by Alan Turing. This I call the artificial intelligence myth. The second thinks of computers as augmenting human intellect. This is the very much based on the thinking of Douglas Engelbert.
Anyway I found this except from the book Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson talking about 'advanced chess' or working like a centur, I always felt that this was the ultimate example of what augmentation look like.
Naturally as someone who is passionate about human computer interaction this seems like the ultimate smart way of using digital technology.
This is a fantastic example of what happens when humans and machines work together. I have said on numerous occasions that there are two essential streams of thought in computing. The first thinks of computers as replacing human beings. This was very well articulated by Alan Turing. This I call the artificial intelligence myth. The second thinks of computers as augmenting human intellect. This is the very much based on the thinking of Douglas Engelbert.
Anyway I found this except from the book Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson talking about 'advanced chess' or working like a centur, I always felt that this was the ultimate example of what augmentation look like.
Naturally as someone who is passionate about human computer interaction this seems like the ultimate smart way of using digital technology.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
PERDIS
Fellow PERDIS 2015 people 
This is building D3
This is the building on campus where PERDIS will be held.
Unlike google maps I found bus 112 from the train station to be fast, bendy and take about 15min not bad for €2.5
I welcome our new robot master overlords.
You may well have read about a Stephen Hawkins and others fearing the rise of artificial intelligence leading to a robot apocalypse.
One thing which people outside the computing community forget is that our future overlords will have to do things like stand-up, open doors, you know stuff. They tend to forget that if you can do complex calculations in a millisecond then doing things we don't find tricky arn't a problem. In fact if computing & AI (artifical intelligence) tells is one thing, it tells us that this isn't true. This underlies the real truth of computing, that we are creating a different kind of intelligence.
The stuff we tend to take for granted - common sense, standing up, getting out of a car unaided is actually incredibly complex and tricky. We should never underestimate our abilities in this area. As soon as tasks become circumscribed then machines start to gain the advantage. We tend to underplay our ability to be flexible and general yet in many respects it is the thing which machines at least able to do.
So while we might fear machine is taking over, it's less likely than we expect. Artificial intelligence has always seen computing as the 'mind offspring' of people. From Alan Turing onwards and in the media such as Transendance, A.I. (Artifical Intellgience), 2001: A space Odyssey, Big Hero 6, Chappie, Westworld, Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina we have always seen machine as 'synthetic person'. This is good for Hollywood - it means writers can ask questions about what it means to be a person but nothing guarantees this as an accurate model for how digital intelligence may evolve. Where computing has worked is when people and machines do what they do best.
Human computer interaction is very a much the brainchild of the late Douglas Engelbart. His vision of computing sees computing as augmenting human intellect. In effect we do what we do best, machines do what they do best. This collaboration creates a synergy. This slightly the utopian vision of computing of course doesn't generate any sexy plot problems which would appeal to Hollywood writers which is why we don't see much about it in films and TV. Yet it does seem to represent more about our lived experience of computing.
Rodney Brooks said at the robot event: "Anyone who is worried about the robot apocalypse just needs to keep their doors closed."
Ultimately our inability to realise machines difficulties handling what we regard as simple things means we greatly underestimated the problems of automating particular activities. For driving for example while it is possible to get a large number of miles with an smart cruise control driving in the city with other drivers around becomes very difficult. Google car will have to achieve something like the Turing test for driving before it can successfully replace drivers 100% of the time. Perhaps Google car is another Google glass ( over hyped ). While I have no doubt a digital car could drive itself in other digital traffic ( it's been happening at the heathrow Terminal 5 pods for a few years now), could simple but super fast reactions make up for sophisticated recognition in anticipation. For example if you're being tailgated by a heavy truck and THEN a dog runs out in front of you, clearly your own (and your passengers') safety takes precedence and the dog loses out, but if it's a child runs out you would naturally do something diffrent. While we can recognise a child vs a dog that ablity won't come to google car soon.
this says it all
One thing which people outside the computing community forget is that our future overlords will have to do things like stand-up, open doors, you know stuff. They tend to forget that if you can do complex calculations in a millisecond then doing things we don't find tricky arn't a problem. In fact if computing & AI (artifical intelligence) tells is one thing, it tells us that this isn't true. This underlies the real truth of computing, that we are creating a different kind of intelligence.
The stuff we tend to take for granted - common sense, standing up, getting out of a car unaided is actually incredibly complex and tricky. We should never underestimate our abilities in this area. As soon as tasks become circumscribed then machines start to gain the advantage. We tend to underplay our ability to be flexible and general yet in many respects it is the thing which machines at least able to do.
So while we might fear machine is taking over, it's less likely than we expect. Artificial intelligence has always seen computing as the 'mind offspring' of people. From Alan Turing onwards and in the media such as Transendance, A.I. (Artifical Intellgience), 2001: A space Odyssey, Big Hero 6, Chappie, Westworld, Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina we have always seen machine as 'synthetic person'. This is good for Hollywood - it means writers can ask questions about what it means to be a person but nothing guarantees this as an accurate model for how digital intelligence may evolve. Where computing has worked is when people and machines do what they do best.
Human computer interaction is very a much the brainchild of the late Douglas Engelbart. His vision of computing sees computing as augmenting human intellect. In effect we do what we do best, machines do what they do best. This collaboration creates a synergy. This slightly the utopian vision of computing of course doesn't generate any sexy plot problems which would appeal to Hollywood writers which is why we don't see much about it in films and TV. Yet it does seem to represent more about our lived experience of computing.
Rodney Brooks said at the robot event: "Anyone who is worried about the robot apocalypse just needs to keep their doors closed."
Ultimately our inability to realise machines difficulties handling what we regard as simple things means we greatly underestimated the problems of automating particular activities. For driving for example while it is possible to get a large number of miles with an smart cruise control driving in the city with other drivers around becomes very difficult. Google car will have to achieve something like the Turing test for driving before it can successfully replace drivers 100% of the time. Perhaps Google car is another Google glass ( over hyped ). While I have no doubt a digital car could drive itself in other digital traffic ( it's been happening at the heathrow Terminal 5 pods for a few years now), could simple but super fast reactions make up for sophisticated recognition in anticipation. For example if you're being tailgated by a heavy truck and THEN a dog runs out in front of you, clearly your own (and your passengers') safety takes precedence and the dog loses out, but if it's a child runs out you would naturally do something diffrent. While we can recognise a child vs a dog that ablity won't come to google car soon.
this says it all
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Smelly Maps
Smelly Maps
four researchers - Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, and Kate McLean - have recently proposed a new way of capturing the entire urban smellscape from social media data. They run smell walks in seven cities in UK, Europe, and USA and, in so doing, collected smell-related words. Locals were asked to walk around their city, identify distinct odors, and take notes. Smell descriptors were taken verbatim from the smell walkers’ original hand-written notes.
The researchers then matched the smell related words with social media data (tags on Flickr pictures and tweets) for the cities of London and Barcelona. To structure this large and apparently unrelated dataset of smell words, they built a co-occurrence network where nodes are smell words and undirected edges are weighted with the number of times the two words co-occur in the same items. The result of this process is the first urban smell dictionary containing 285 English terms.
four researchers - Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, and Kate McLean - have recently proposed a new way of capturing the entire urban smellscape from social media data. They run smell walks in seven cities in UK, Europe, and USA and, in so doing, collected smell-related words. Locals were asked to walk around their city, identify distinct odors, and take notes. Smell descriptors were taken verbatim from the smell walkers’ original hand-written notes.
The researchers then matched the smell related words with social media data (tags on Flickr pictures and tweets) for the cities of London and Barcelona. To structure this large and apparently unrelated dataset of smell words, they built a co-occurrence network where nodes are smell words and undirected edges are weighted with the number of times the two words co-occur in the same items. The result of this process is the first urban smell dictionary containing 285 English terms.
Term of the day - print impairment.
Print-disability definitions
Persons who are blind or who have an impairment of visual functionwhich cannot be improved, by the use of corrective lenses, to a level that would normally be acceptable for reading without a special level or kind of light;Persons who are unable to, through physical disability, hold or manipulate a book, or who are unable to focus or move their eyes to the extent that would normally be acceptable for reading; Persons who are unable to effectively read print due to dyslexia or other cognitive learning disabilities such as Autism or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD); Persons who are unable to effectively read print due to a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which includes any significant impairment of intelligence and/or social functioning.
Persons who are blind or who have an impairment of visual functionwhich cannot be improved, by the use of corrective lenses, to a level that would normally be acceptable for reading without a special level or kind of light;Persons who are unable to, through physical disability, hold or manipulate a book, or who are unable to focus or move their eyes to the extent that would normally be acceptable for reading; Persons who are unable to effectively read print due to dyslexia or other cognitive learning disabilities such as Autism or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD); Persons who are unable to effectively read print due to a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind, which includes any significant impairment of intelligence and/or social functioning.
The Nightscout Project | We Are Not Waiting
The Nightscout Project | We Are Not Waiting: What is the Nightscout project?
Nightscout (CGM in the Cloud) is an open source, DIY project that allows real time access to a Dexcom G4 CGM from web browsers via smartphones, computers, tablets, and the Pebble smartwatch. The goal of the project is to allow remote monitoring of the T1D’s glucose level using existing monitoring devices.
Nightscout (CGM in the Cloud) is an open source, DIY project that allows real time access to a Dexcom G4 CGM from web browsers via smartphones, computers, tablets, and the Pebble smartwatch. The goal of the project is to allow remote monitoring of the T1D’s glucose level using existing monitoring devices.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Milton Keynes trials city-wide public 'internet of things' network | Technology | The Guardian
Milton Keynes trials city-wide public 'internet of things' network | Technology | The Guardian:
The comments from residents make Milton Keyens a drab, dreary and under invested ( broadband wise) area. You do wonder if things are as bad as they claim? If so why not move? Perhaps it's really nice and they are trying to keep people knowing.
Struck byComment by
" It was only a couple of years ago they were spending more money defending claims from people who had suffered injuries from poorly maintained pavements than they were spending repairing them.
Doesn't surprise me, the pavements are absolutely lethal. Why don't they fix them? If a paving slab protrudes by an two inches then it's only a matter of time before somebody trips over it."
Sounds like the potential for an internet of things robot.
I was for some reason caught by the rat traps with sensors.
The comments from residents make Milton Keyens a drab, dreary and under invested ( broadband wise) area. You do wonder if things are as bad as they claim? If so why not move? Perhaps it's really nice and they are trying to keep people knowing.
Struck byComment by
" It was only a couple of years ago they were spending more money defending claims from people who had suffered injuries from poorly maintained pavements than they were spending repairing them.
Doesn't surprise me, the pavements are absolutely lethal. Why don't they fix them? If a paving slab protrudes by an two inches then it's only a matter of time before somebody trips over it."
Sounds like the potential for an internet of things robot.
I was for some reason caught by the rat traps with sensors.
Friday, May 15, 2015
Future Proofing Tomorrow’s Technology: UX for an Aging Population User Experience Magazine
Future Proofing Tomorrow’s Technology: UX for an Aging Population User Experience Magazine: The trend of an aging population is reflected across Europe. It is estimated that by 2035 nearly a quarter of the population in the United Kingdom will be over 65 years. Aging is traditionally associated with a decrease in mobility and social interaction, and this can have detrimental effects upon well being and access to good nutrition and health. Fortunately there has been much research into the effects of age upon product interaction.
More of a place marker for the new HCI course.
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
CHI effect
I just picked this up from the anylitics on Academia.edu - This shows people checking me out over CHI.
I always had feeling that scientisits looking at each others papers is like dogs sniffing each others tails when they first meet.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
11 must-have Apple Watch apps | Computerworld
Just back from CHI. How quickly we slip from what use is a digital watch ( on the BBC) to this 11 must-have Apple Watch apps | Computerworld
A reminder if we need one about how we underestimate developer creativity. It's easy to forget how un-imaginative most people (including journalists and those that fill up box after box on user comments) are.
On the plane back from Korea I watched both Castles in the sky ( English development of radar) The Imitation game ( first computer and enigma code) , and Sambusters ( first Dam smashing bouncing bomb Barns Wallis). Each of them played on the immense social difficulties that the inventors had to struggle against to get their ideas excepted.
A reminder if we need one about how we underestimate developer creativity. It's easy to forget how un-imaginative most people (including journalists and those that fill up box after box on user comments) are.
On the plane back from Korea I watched both Castles in the sky ( English development of radar) The Imitation game ( first computer and enigma code) , and Sambusters ( first Dam smashing bouncing bomb Barns Wallis). Each of them played on the immense social difficulties that the inventors had to struggle against to get their ideas excepted.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Very cool night in Seoul
Just got back from having a fantastic evening with one of the gods of space syntax Hoon Park.
We went for a traditional Korean dinner in Gangnam (As in Gangnam style).
You can't see them here but each one has a video display on it. The street seems to be a mix of Oxford Street and Carnaby Street.bustling with young people out to see and be seen.
I didn't know this but it turns out that Hoon was one of those responsible for this line of inter-active pillars.
While the city is astonishingly young it's also surprisingly syntact.
In many ways the mix of living and working reminds me a little of the structure of the Canadian city. However the high pedestrian nature and the layering of space from grade 2 super grid Bellows about the close relationship between space and society here.
This 'Minth '(Media plinth) was so detailed that at first I took it for a backlit photograph. Actually superhigh resolution screen with the numbers representing the depth of queue to get in to the superb Korean restaurant.
Good evening chatting to someone who would have to be on any list of the smartest guy in syntax. It was excellent to sample Korean cooking ( with out the meat sorry guys).
Arguably best first night at chi ever.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Interface Technologies That Have Not Yet Left the Lab
Lots of intreasting indirection technologies. With the quite interesting observation that the image processing people have got to job done, but the interaction people need to begin and develop a lot more non trivial code beyond to make something usable.
Some interesting views on what makes it out of the lab and why. Some lovely demos. I love the notion that if you can't help people play games or send email no one is going to be interesting technology.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Balls! (2014)
Balls! (2014) | Ruairi Glynn
. "A governing digital model and set of physical sensors allow data to be translated to movement and colour." Remind you of anything ? :-)
. "A governing digital model and set of physical sensors allow data to be translated to movement and colour." Remind you of anything ? :-)
The Best Wearables Will Be The Ones You Throw Away | Co.Design | business design
Back from Tiree
The Best Wearables Will Be The Ones You Throw Away | Co.Design | business design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3044716/the-best-wearables-will-be-the-ones-you-throw-away
The Best Wearables Will Be The Ones You Throw Away | Co.Design | business design
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3044716/the-best-wearables-will-be-the-ones-you-throw-away
Basic concept is that most of these wearable should really be disposable - people use them long enough to discover something about themselves and then that's it.
Saturday, April 4, 2015
Apple's Haptic Tech Is a Glimpse at the UI of the Future | WIRED
Apple's Haptic Tech Is a Glimpse at the UI of the Future | WIRED:
And interesting piece about the Apple taptic engine originally for the watch but also included in the latest MacBook air. It seems like it is capable of simulating more than just clicks.
I remember reading a paper a long time ago about using force in mice to give a sense of touching the surface. There has been some interesting conversation about the way that people tend to stroke the iPhone user interface so the idea of virtual texture becomes incredibly sensible.
And interesting piece about the Apple taptic engine originally for the watch but also included in the latest MacBook air. It seems like it is capable of simulating more than just clicks.
I remember reading a paper a long time ago about using force in mice to give a sense of touching the surface. There has been some interesting conversation about the way that people tend to stroke the iPhone user interface so the idea of virtual texture becomes incredibly sensible.
Monday, March 30, 2015
Tech wave continues
Tiree Tech wave 
I popped to shop by bike( lovely sunny) but the weather changed so rapidly that on way back I had to get off and push through the 30mph wind.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Mencap shows that 60% of people with learning disabilities didn't register to vote for the last election because they found it too difficult.
From an HCI point of view it sounds like a design failure here
Mencap shows that 60% of people with learning disabilities didn't register to vote for the last election because they found it too difficult.
"It was very complicated to fill in. I did not know what I had to do. The information that explained the forms was not clear. The form had too many boxes and difficult words. There was not enough room in the form to write information. It made me feel excluded " is quoted on website.
Not sure if Mencap is including dyslexia in this but I'm wondering if it's also had an influence.
and more generally a social justice failure here
BBC reports "After the 2010 election, one in five people with learning disabilities told Mencap in a survey that they had been turned away at the polling station because of their disability."
https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/about-learning-disability
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-30920778
Mencap shows that 60% of people with learning disabilities didn't register to vote for the last election because they found it too difficult.
"It was very complicated to fill in. I did not know what I had to do. The information that explained the forms was not clear. The form had too many boxes and difficult words. There was not enough room in the form to write information. It made me feel excluded " is quoted on website.
Not sure if Mencap is including dyslexia in this but I'm wondering if it's also had an influence.
and more generally a social justice failure here
BBC reports "After the 2010 election, one in five people with learning disabilities told Mencap in a survey that they had been turned away at the polling station because of their disability."
https://www.mencap.org.uk/about-learning-disability/about-learning-disability
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-30920778
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
On the way to Tiree tech wave
On my way to tech wave . I get to stop in one of my favourite stations- Carlise
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
3d printer delivery day.
Everybody loves getting parts from the 3-D printer day. I was very pleased they fitted right first time
How to ask a question: conducting research for your startup
This is quite a good 7 minute intro into asking questions.
Monday, March 23, 2015
David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? | Talk Video | TED.com
David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? | Talk Video | TED.com
I'm fairly familiar with this kind of work the TED Talk was kicked off by this paper https://noisebridge.net/images/9/91/Jne5_4_r02.pdf we did some work in the our lab to http://oro.open.ac.uk/17968/1/dap2008final.pdf a few years ago.
I originally suggested using distance sensors in the back of a car to give you a feeling for your blindspot ( hard to do experimentally). I quite liked the idea of building a chair which took readings from the CPU to give a programmer a sense of how well their software was doing ( pretty hard core programming ).
good to know it's still going.
I'm fairly familiar with this kind of work the TED Talk was kicked off by this paper https://noisebridge.net/images/9/91/Jne5_4_r02.pdf we did some work in the our lab to http://oro.open.ac.uk/17968/1/dap2008final.pdf a few years ago.
I originally suggested using distance sensors in the back of a car to give you a feeling for your blindspot ( hard to do experimentally). I quite liked the idea of building a chair which took readings from the CPU to give a programmer a sense of how well their software was doing ( pretty hard core programming ).
good to know it's still going.
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Repertory grid -new Analytic methodology of the day.
Repertory grid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The client is asked to consider the elements three at a time, and to identify a way in which two of the elements might be seen as alike, but distinct from, contrasted to, the third. For example, in considering a set of people as part of a topic dealing with personal relationships, a client might say that the element 'my father' and the element 'my boss' are similar because they are both fairly tense individuals, whereas the element 'my wife' is different because she is 'relaxed'. And so we identify one construct that the individual uses when thinking about people: whether they are 'Tense as distinct from Relaxed'. In practice, good grid interview technique would delve a little deeper and identify some more behaviorally explicit description of 'Tense versus Relaxed'. All the elements are rated on the construct, further triads of elements compared and further constructs elicited, and the interview would continue until no further constructs are obtained."
"The client is asked to consider the elements three at a time, and to identify a way in which two of the elements might be seen as alike, but distinct from, contrasted to, the third. For example, in considering a set of people as part of a topic dealing with personal relationships, a client might say that the element 'my father' and the element 'my boss' are similar because they are both fairly tense individuals, whereas the element 'my wife' is different because she is 'relaxed'. And so we identify one construct that the individual uses when thinking about people: whether they are 'Tense as distinct from Relaxed'. In practice, good grid interview technique would delve a little deeper and identify some more behaviorally explicit description of 'Tense versus Relaxed'. All the elements are rated on the construct, further triads of elements compared and further constructs elicited, and the interview would continue until no further constructs are obtained."
Friday, March 6, 2015
Mummy that man with the glasses is back again.
Just after Google Glass has stopped Sony have released their own development version. On the plus side this is aimed at businesses that might find a use for the layered screen. For example a surgeon while he is engaged in an operation but more likely a worker in a warehouse.
I guess the basic problem is that they cannot get a model of the world which they could then overlay with three-dimensional information quick enough. We cannot track the body/head movements that accurately yet so nothing lined up. Hollywood Films like the Kingsmen show what potential these kinds of systems have but the technology is not close enough yet.
Monday, March 2, 2015
MOVE: Movement in Embodied Adaptive Architecture
"MOVE is an architectural prototype and research platform to explore the relationship of body movements and movements in adaptive architecture. Using a Kinect motion sensor, MOVE tracks the gross body movements of a person and allows the flexible mapping of those to the movement of building components. In this way, a person inside MOVE can immediately explore the creation of spatial configurations around them as they are created through the body.
This can be done live, by recording body movements and replaying them and through manual choreography of building elements. Trial feedback has shaped our four-stage iterative design and development process. The video shows Tetsudo performers Hamish Elliott and Natalie Heaton exploring interaction with MOVE.
MOVE was created at the Mixed Reality Lab, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham by Holger Schnädelbach and Hendro Arieyanto in 2014."
Like Exobuilding I love these kinds of transitions between software and buildings. - Back to Ubicomp submissions...
Friday, February 20, 2015
Setup Microsoft Kinect on Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
Monday, February 16, 2015
Worrisome message from the world of big data and recommendation systems.
Tapster - Similar Product Template: In this demo, we will show you how to build a Tinder-style web application recommending comics to users based on their likes/dislikes of episodes interactively.
I have just come across this tutorial
Personally I think it is only the process of accurately visualising this kind of information that will allow people to see what errors than making
I have just come across this tutorial
http://docs.prediction.io/demo/tapster/
"In this demo, we will show you how to build a Tinder-style web application recommending comics to users based on their likes/dislikes of episodes interactively.”
I think what really got my attention was that at no point do we actually see any visualisation is going on. No attempt was made to try and demystify what the system was doing. This is as close as you can get to software as magic. What worries me is is this representative of the general process of big data processing? Okay with a recommenders system the worst it can do is make stupid suggestions but as a general process how do people spot that they're not making big mistakes?
Monday, February 9, 2015
Papered out.
I have just succeeded in submitting for papers to the next space syntax conference. I feel like a party balloon from which all the air has been let out. Dimitri has also got his poster in.
Feeling pretty good but worn out.
Feeling pretty good but worn out.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
Quite a cool social network paper on the power of weak links
People linking disparate groups together (aka Structural Holes aka weak links aka High choice links) produce better ideas.
This article outlines the mechanism by which brokerage provides
social capital. Opinion and behavior are more homogeneous within
than between groups, so people connected across groups are more
familiar with alternative ways of thinking and behaving. Brokerage
across the structural holes between groups provides a vision of options otherwise unseen, which is the mechanism by which brokerage
becomes social capital. I review evidence consistent with the hypothesis, then look at the networks around managers in a large
American electronics company. The organization is rife with structural holes, andbrokerage has its expected correlates. Compensation,
positive performance evaluations, promotions, and good ideas are
disproportionately in the hands of people whose networks span
structural holes. The between-group brokers are more likely to express ideas, less likely to have ideas dismissed, and more likely to
have ideas evaluated as valuable. I close with implications for creativity and structural change.
social capital. Opinion and behavior are more homogeneous within
than between groups, so people connected across groups are more
familiar with alternative ways of thinking and behaving. Brokerage
across the structural holes between groups provides a vision of options otherwise unseen, which is the mechanism by which brokerage
becomes social capital. I review evidence consistent with the hypothesis, then look at the networks around managers in a large
American electronics company. The organization is rife with structural holes, and
positive performance evaluations, promotions, and good ideas are
disproportionately in the hands of people whose networks span
structural holes. The between-group brokers are more likely to express ideas, less likely to have ideas dismissed, and more likely to
have ideas evaluated as valuable. I close with implications for creativity and structural change.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Living Drones [31c3]
C3 is Chaos computing club - quite cool. The notion of living drone is quite cool. I wonder how this relates to the kinds of living avatars
Shell
I'm very busy with papers and book not to mention new HCI course but this is something I'm working on.
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