Back from CHI part 2

Well its nice to be back. I'm not good a socialising let a lone networking and I'm not fully socialised out.

On the plus side I met a number of architects including Martyn Dade-Robertson ( Newcastle), Anijo Pennen Mathew(Chicago)  and Prof Keith Green (from Clemson). Which for a conference on human computer interaction was interesting.

It might have been the conference but the vibe emerged of doing a workshop on  HCI and architecture ? At CHI for 2012. I think it would be interesting so am pushing it.

Overall the conference was good ( I'm never overly excited by the papers )  and I'm currently plowing through the proceedings.


Yvonne's book launch party was so cool and I'm walking away with a signed copy of the new  BFB( big fat book) and had a fantastic  talked to Claire O'[ gone black hang on]

I also got a free copy of Paul Dourish's book (no pictures,  lets face it - its not going to make it to Kindle is it?). and I managed to meet Patrick Oliver so perhaps I'll be able to visit the Newcastle HCI people.

On the plus side I met Prof David Kirsh taking at the workshop on embodied cognition and he was quite inspiring. The outcome of a previous workshop ( on large displays ) was the inability to measure the 'impact' of an ambient display ( how do you measure the impact of a public clock?). David Kirsh had the mantra that anything can be measured ( then proceeded to tell me exactly how to do it) which was good. 


The mighty Steve Benford was also there and mentioned there might be some money to fund me popping over to MRI to do some collaborative analysis of a recent experiment (yah nice). 


I also bumped into Rachel Roumelitis from Morgan Kaufmann ( publishers) and did an elevator pitch on the Interaction programming in Java book. Was this the start of something good or did I get a polite brush off only time will tell. 


CHI 2011 - Very inspiring but very wet.