Not all rangers have beards
This week I went to a seminar that focused on communicating research. It was a pre-requisite for entering the 3-minute thesis competition, which seems like a mini-TED for research students with a time limit. I don’t know if I’ll enter the competition (although there’s some impressive cash amounts up for grabs), but I’ll definitely be […]
Context: awareness vs sensitivity
I’ve been doing a lot of reading and writing around context awareness the past couple of months – so much so that I changed the subtitle of this site to include it. It’s safe to say that the notion of this kind of awareness completely captured my imagination, or at the very least, led me […]
A synopsis
Inspired by a few different factors (Tricia Wang’s research overview, Patrick Dunleavy’s excellent “Authoring a PhD“, and this tweet – thanks Vicki!) I spent today going over my abstract and ended up writing a slightly more detailed synopsis of my thesis. Like everything on this site, the plan is to keep […]
Reference Piles
Completing a PhD is meant to show that you are able to stick at a complex topic and explore it in a disciplined and systematic way, paying attention to existing literature and eventually, after some years, adding your bit to the vast pool of human knowledge.
Research questions are the core […]
Knowledge pathways
I’ve spent the last few days making sense of the discussions and observations made during the Affective Atlas team’s visit to Wilson’s Prom. Discussions centered firmly around the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge and how collaborative and social technologies can help connect various people in and around a national park. Whilst simplistic, the diagram above […]
Wilson’s Prom visit
Last week the Affective Atlas team went to visit Wilson’s Promontory National Park. Myself and the other PhD student spent 3 days at the park – giving presentations on our progress to date (for me: not much), being shown areas of the park not usually accessible to the public, and touring the on-site offices.
BurnMap Conversations
I thought it might be a good idea to note down some of the ideas inspired by speaking to members of the Affective Atlas team about the BurnMap project.
I found the process very helpful, especially at such an early stage in my PhD. It really got me into the right frame of mind […]
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Geoplaced
This is a notebook exploring the gaps between geography, sociology, technology, science fiction and things between.
I used to write about my PhD here, which I finished in July 2013. You can download a PDF or order a print-on-demand copy of my PhD thesis.
Themes
- art (1)
- Augmented Reality (2)
- Brain Dump (17)
- Conducting a PhD (13)
- Context (6)
- essay-a-fortnight (2)
- fiction (1)
- Government (1)
- How to: Get a PhD (5)
- inspiration (4)
- Knowledge (15)
- Location (19)
- Methods (6)
- Mobile (2)
- Parks Vic (17)
- Place/Space (5)
- Research Questions (11)
- Technology (3)
- travel (1)
- ubicomp (7)
- Uncategorized (11)
- Visualisation (10)