Geoplaced Knowledge
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This is a quick post to break the drought here, and to let the world know that I have been working. The above picture is from Scrivener – my writing program of choice – showing the word target for my literature review. Writing this has been enjoyable so far (sort of), and has [...]
As an activity today I went through this blog and conducted a card sort on the posts. What emerged from it was a rough outline of my overall thesis (and the realisation that I’ve written many more words than I had originally thought). There is a lot of manipulation to get these words into a [...]
I’m increasingly relying on my notebook to test out ideas and document progress. In the last 3 months, there’s been about 100 pages of content similar to this: trying different ways of analyzing data, and prototyping chapters. It feels much less formal than this blog, but today I was suddenly struck with the realization that [...]
It’s a common story that the focus of a PhD changes dramatically as you progress through it. In almost two years I think I’ve written about 10 different abstracts, all with some kind of common thread but with decidedly different implications for the activities and outcomes of the project. In that spirit, I’d like to [...]
When I started my research, I didn’t fully understand how lucky I was to have an industry partner attached to the project. As part of an existing Design Research Institute project, my PhD position was essentially like a normal full-time position, with a project ready to kick off; all I did was slot in and [...]
I’m technically a few days late for an end of year summary, so I’ll roll in a summary of the year-that-was with a preview of the year-to-come.
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 [...]
The first weekend of sunshine has brought everyone and their frisbee out, and I’m enjoying the best of both worlds armed with a highlighter and a backpack for a pillow. What better place to think about context-awareness in parks than in a park?
Geoplaced Knowledge
This is a research notebook exploring the gaps between cultural geography, natural environments and ubiquitous computing.
It documents my progress undertaking a cross-disciplinary PhD, in Geospatial Science and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne.
I'm working with Parks Victoria, a government body charged with managing natural environments in the state of Victoria, Australia. My work is being conducted under the Design Research Institute's Affective Atlas project, whose goal is to better facilitating the creation and dissemination of tacit knowledge about national parks.
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- Conducting a PhD (8)
- Context (6)
- essay-a-fortnight (2)
- Government (1)
- How to: Get a PhD (5)
- inspiration (4)
- Knowledge (15)
- Location (18)
- Methods (5)
- Mobile (1)
- Parks Vic (16)
- Place/Space (5)
- Research Questions (11)
- Technology (3)
- travel (1)
- ubicomp (6)
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